The knee-jerk reaction among traditional, old-school sports fans will be that this is a horrible idea; that two Orlando teenagers who are skipping their final two years of high school to play in a new professional basketball league are making a monumental mistake that will be devastating and detrimental to their development.
The Orlando Sentinel’s Buddy Collings reported earlier this week that Matt and Ryan Bewley, two 6-foot-9 twin prodigies who play at Orlando’s West Oaks Academy, will make history by bypassing their junior and senior seasons of high school to sign two-year contracts described as million-dollar deals to join the new Overtime Elite professional league.