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2 minutes ago, GBL_Bills said:

It's his commitment to Mizzou picture from high school. He's commenting on how far he's come since then

Ahh, didn’t have the same post on insta as he did Twitter 

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40 minutes ago, RiseAndGrind said:

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Better to be in the NBL than Europe? I figured Javon would have had a shot at a top Euro league 

Not as far as quality of basketball or pay, but not far down the list. I found a ranking Fran Fraschilla did back in 2017 and he ranked the leagues as:

1.EuroLeague  2.EuroCup  3.Spain's Liga ACB  4.Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL)  5.Russia's VTB United League  6.Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA)  7.France's LNB Pro A  8.The Greek Basket League  9.The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL)  10.FIBA's Basketball Champions League (BCL)  11.Adriatic League (ABA)  12.Australia's National Basketball League (NBL)  13.Israeli Basketball Premier League  14.Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21691644/fran-fraschilla-ranks-world-top-basketball-leagues-nba

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The NBL season is only four months long.  Still time for a player to catch on with a G League team which is the most direct route to the NBA.  However, the NBL pays a lot more than the G League (60-100K for American imports vs a cap of $26K in the G-League) and English is the native language, unlike most European countries.  

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2 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:

Not as far as quality of basketball or pay, but not far down the list. I found a ranking Fran Fraschilla did back in 2017 and he ranked the leagues as:

1.EuroLeague  2.EuroCup  3.Spain's Liga ACB  4.Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL)  5.Russia's VTB United League  6.Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA)  7.France's LNB Pro A  8.The Greek Basket League  9.The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL)  10.FIBA's Basketball Champions League (BCL)  11.Adriatic League (ABA)  12.Australia's National Basketball League (NBL)  13.Israeli Basketball Premier League  14.Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21691644/fran-fraschilla-ranks-world-top-basketball-leagues-nba

This League > All Others

 

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3 hours ago, Old guy said:

Congratulations to Javon Bess and all the best. Australia is a fine place to live in.

 

15 minutes ago, brianstl said:

The big plus to Australia for a lot of players is that there isn't a language barrier and there isn't the culture shock that can be experienced when you are living for months in Europe.

I spent 3 months in Sidney in 1992 working for Kellogg’s and it is a awesome place to live.  The women in Australia love American men and it was strange to hear that I had an accent.  The Australian people I spent time with were fun loving beer drinkers, my kind of people.

The only culture shock will be the driving in the right front seat instead of the left.  My advice to Javon while driving if your seat is closest to the middle of the road you are driving the right direction.

Best wishes Javon

Good Day

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33 minutes ago, brianstl said:

The big plus to Australia for a lot of players is that there isn't a language barrier and there isn't the culture shock that can be experienced when you are living for months in Europe.

bingo.  

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9 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:

Not as far as quality of basketball or pay, but not far down the list. I found a ranking Fran Fraschilla did back in 2017 and he ranked the leagues as:

1.EuroLeague  2.EuroCup  3.Spain's Liga ACB  4.Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL)  5.Russia's VTB United League  6.Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA)  7.France's LNB Pro A  8.The Greek Basket League  9.The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL)  10.FIBA's Basketball Champions League (BCL)  11.Adriatic League (ABA)  12.Australia's National Basketball League (NBL)  13.Israeli Basketball Premier League  14.Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21691644/fran-fraschilla-ranks-world-top-basketball-leagues-nba

Henriquez's Dominican league didn't make the list.  Did Santos end up down there too?

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I have not followed it at all this year, but The Basketball Tournament is into the quarterfinals. One of the teams in the quarterfinals is Loyalty Is Love who Willie Reed is playing with. Just looking at their last game he had 21 points (10/15 shooting) and 10 rebounds. They play a team called Overseas Elite (has won the tournament 4 years in a row) this Friday in Chicago at 6:00 pm on ESPN. The quarterfinals are Thursday/Friday, semifinals on Sunday afternoon (games on ESPN), and the $2 Million Championship game on Tuesday night (on ESPN). All remaining games are at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Another wasted 25 minutes that I wanted to share with the board (some interesting names from the past on these teams). 

https://www.thetournament.com/bracket

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On 7/29/2019 at 10:14 PM, HoosierPal said:

I was not aware that Chile had a league.  I assume it's professional?

It’s a 12 team pro league which started in 2010. 

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Don't know anything about this French bro or the NBA off season and their process for finalizing the roster but this a good sign, yes?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Javon Bess (<a href="https://twitter.com/Jb_Bizzle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jb_Bizzle</a>) will wear No. 9 for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pelicans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pelicans</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NBA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UniWatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UniWatch</a> <a href="https://t.co/K4zqO0AIvd">pic.twitter.com/K4zqO0AIvd</a></p>&mdash; Etienne Catalan (@EtienneCatalan) <a href="https://twitter.com/EtienneCatalan/status/1176608663122960385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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10 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:

Don't know anything about this French bro or the NBA off season and their process for finalizing the roster but this a good sign, yes?

 



 

 

 

 

 

He deserved it if he made the final roster. You know he busted his ass to do it. 

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