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LaVar Ball🏀 to Start Pro
League for NBA Hopefuls👏
Saying that he has
found a “long-awaited solution” to an “ongoing problem,” LaVar Ball announced
Wednesday his intention to launch a professional league specifically geared
toward recruiting top high school players who don’t want to make a “pit stop”
at a college before becoming eligible for the NBA draft. The league will be
called the Junior Basketball Association, and it will be sponsored by the Ball
family’s company, Big Baller Brand.
“The JBA will cater to the top ranked
high school basketball prospects in America,” Ball said in a statement (via
SLAM). According to reports, Ball plans to pay players between $3,000 and
$10,000 a month to fill eight teams, with 10-man rosters, based in cities such
as New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas.
“Getting these players is going to be
easy,” Ball told ESPN's Darren Rovell. “This is giving guys a chance to get a
jump start on their career, to be seen by pro scouts, and we’re going to pay
them because someone has to pay these kids.”
Turkey Wants Enes Kanter🏀
Jailed for Insulting🗣 President Erdogan
A Turkish
prosecutor asked for NBA's New York Knicks star Enes Kanter to be jailed for up
to four years for insulting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the state-run
news agency Anadolu reported on Wednesday.
Kanter's passport was revoked by
Turkish authorities earlier this year, and an arrest warrant was issued after
he was named a "fugitive" by a Turkish court over his support for
U.S-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of
orchestrating an attempted coup in July 2016.
Kanter is a long-time supporter of
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and whose
extradition Erdogan is seeking.
Last year, Turkish media published a
handwritten letter signed by Kanter's father, Mehmet, disowning a son he
accused of having been "hypnotized" by the Gulen movement.
In response, the 25-year-old Kanter -
the third pick in the NBA draft when he joined Utah Jazz in 2011 - said he was
dedicating himself to Gulen and the cleric's Hizmet (Service) movement.
Thompson,
Durant Lead 🤕Injured Warriors to Record 10th Straight
Win🎉
Klay Thompson
scored 27 of his 29 points in the first half and made his first nine field
goals, leading the undermanned Golden State Warriors past the Memphis Grizzlies
97-84 on Wednesday night for their 10th straight win.
Kevin Durant added
22 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots as defending champion Golden
State was down five regulars again, including two-time MVP Stephen Curry out
for his sixth straight game with a sprained right ankle.
Thompson shot 10
for 16 overall and didn't miss until a 3-point try with 6:10 left before
halftime.
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