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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 4662267, member: 8240"] Key lines from Wong's threats over NIL $ last year: Apr 28, 2022, 10:25 PM ET "If Isaiah and his family don't feel that the NIL number meets their expectations they will be entering the transfer portal tomorrow, while maintaining his eligibility in the NBA draft and going through the draft process," Papas (his agent) said. First, does his "agent" get paid? If he's paid to look for schools willing to pay a lot his fee should be minimal. If he's paid to ferret out deals from various sponsors maybe he gets more. When the NIL talk began it was my belief that the PLAYERS would be able to offer their NIL's to suitors who would pay to involve them in marketing or whatever they felt might bring value to their companies, etc. NOT that the schools would be setting up organizations to raise the money required to buy the players off....either to keep them or entice them to leave for GREENER ($$$$$) pastures. If Charlie Baker wants to keep his image as a master manager he'll get off his arrss and put some rules in place that make it possible for the players to benefit from their skills and fame, not for sitting back and letting the buyers (schools) bundle up the money to get them on campus. If that's how it'll work we don't need an NCAA or any other organizing body. [/QUOTE]