The NBA G-League announced on Thursday that the league will offer one-year contracts worth $125,000 to some players who could be as young as 18 years old.
The main point of having these contracts is to allow elite high school boys basketball players who do not wish to go to college to play one year for a professional team in the United States. It is also an acknowledgement that the “one and done” rule isn’t working. Currently, NBA Draft prospects spend a minimum of one year of college before going to the pros. When this happens, these players may only spend one semester in class because they essentially know that they are not going to come back the following school year.