We had some big basketball news Thursday morning.
Jalen Green -- ESPN's No. 1 ranked high school prospect in the 2020 class, who spent his senior season locally at Profilic Prep in Napa -- announced that he would bypass college and sign with the NBA G League.
Reporting w/ @Draftexpress: Jalen Green is making the leap to a reshaped NBA professional pathway program, a G-League initiative that’ll pay elite prospects $500K-plus and provide a one-year development program outside of minor-league’s traditional team structure. Story soon.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 16, 2020
As NBA/NBPA talks on eliminating one-and-done remain stalled, strengthening the pro pathway initaitive became even more important to Adam Silver.