Tare acronym have put basketball above. Nil: Name, Image and Likeness. In Spanish, name, image and likeness. Are the rights that since 2022 They allow NCAA players to earn money. And not reduced amounts. They are waterfalls of dollars that serve as a claim to the most promising young people in the world and also others of lower level. In the last summers, Europe suffers a real plunder.
The reality of European basketball has suffered a mutation and Some clubs consider that talent escape is already an unstoppable process. Hence they begin to consider radical measures. As Marca, Real Madrid and Barcelona has been able to have even a conversation to assess the option to eliminate their quarries. It does not mean that they will do it and the decision would be very unpopular, but that they simply consider it clearly speaks of the seriousness of the situation.
Dame Sarr prepares to launch in a Barcelona match.
Historically, The two greats of Spanish basketball have seen their stars go to the NBA. Now they see their young talents fly towards the NCAA without hardly enjoyed Beyond some very limited minutes in the Endesa League and the Euroleague or successes in training categories. Kaspar Jakucionislast year, and Lady sarrshortly, they have been the last youth players to leave Barça. Ismaila Diagné, Jan Vide y Egor Demin They left from Madrid recently. As It is the next one that will take the step. Hugo González He had offers to leave last year and stayed. Now he has signed up for the draft.
The clubs invest in someone who started playing at 9, 10, 11 and now ends with a seven -digit check in their hands at 18
Players with greater or lesser potential who are in disposal of perceive unthinkable money on this side of the Atlantic when they have just achieved the age of majority. Demin, Russian base of the Madrid quarry that has played at the University of Brigham Young and could be in the top 10 of the NBA Draft, He has won this season thanks to the rights nil a figure similar to that of Facundo Campazzo in Madrid.
Impossible to compete
Impossible to retain young people before offers. That's why The big ones begin to consider if it would not be better to forget the quarries and dedicate that money to the first team. Abandon the idea of manufacturing a talent that is barely enjoyed and that Just leave benefits in the form of termination clauses. Nor can they be very high, as they have to correspond to salaries, which in training categories are usually reduced.
Egor Demin, Real Madrid, play in Brigham Young.
Andreas Zagklis, general secretary of FIBAhe referred to the matter during the congress recently held in Bahrain. “Our clubs, our leagues and our federations They invest in someone who started playing at 9, 10, 11 and now ends with a seven -digit check in their hands at 18 “he said, worried about the situation.
Measures to combat the leakage
To combat the escape, FIBA has approved to demand a letter of authorization to the young stars who leave for NCAA, as if universities were professional clubs. “There must be consent of the club and the federation from which the player comes out and there must be guarantees about where he will play, conditions, availability to be summoned by the national team … All the guarantees that exist in the FIBA ecosystem “Zagklis said.
Jakucionis, former Barcelona player who plays at the University of Illinois.
In Spain, in collaboration with the Superior Sports and Universities Council, the creation of a League of the subsidiaries of the ACB clubs is being profile so that young people have minutes and can develop their game. Will these measures be enough to retain the projects before the rain of millions that falls in the NCAA? Real Madrid and Barcelona begin to see it so complicated that they even propose drastic measures.
