The Junior Basketball Association was an American basketball league. Its design was that of an alternative to the NCAA, allowing high school and junior college players to turn professional straight out of school. The JBA existed for just one season in 2018, featuring eight teams from major US cities. While the league has not formally folded, no future seasons have been announced and the league’s website is no longer active.
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The Junior Basketball Association was an American basketball league. Its design was that of an alternative to the NCAA, allowing high school and junior college players to turn professional straight out of school. The league was first announced in December 2017 by LaVar Ball and was said to be fully funded by Ball’s sports apparel company, Big Baller Brand. The JBA existed for just one season in 2018, featuring eight teams from major US cities. While the league has not formally folded, no future seasons have been announced, and the league’s website is no longer active. It is widely seen as having been created solely as a platform for his sons, disregarding the futures and livelihoods of the sixty other players in the competition.
Now with the discontinuation of the league, players have not only been left without a job but have allowed endless promises and their modest USD 3,000 a month income to take away their college eligibility and opportunity for a fully-paid college education. It was revealed that the JBA had directly messaged about 80 blue-chip high school basketball players through Twitter about potentially joining its league, with a vast majority declining the offer and none of them ultimately accepting. The League appointed former National Basketball Association players Ed O’Bannon and Earl Watson, along with Lonzo Ball, to its advisory board and selection committee for choosing players who will compete in the league.
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