As a basketball community, we learned a very valuable lesson late last week: It pays to be a good, young, talented American basketball player. That has been apparent for a few years and became abundantly clear last Friday
That’s because less than two years after RJ Hampton first elected to go to Australia and a year after the “G-League Ignite” program was formed, on Friday, three new high school players signed professional contracts. First up, we had the first signees of the new “Overtime Elite” basketball league, as Matt and Ryan Bewley were each paid a reported $1 million to sign a two-year contract with the league.