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How does that translate in real numbers? According to estimates provided by Blake Lawrence, the CEO of Opendorse, a data company which has been helping dozens of schools build financial models, the entire revenue sharing payroll for a typical power conference team will be less than $5 million. Lawrence projects that the average SEC team will have roughly $3.5 million to share with all of its men’s basketball players. That’s less than the $4 million that Texas Tech forward J.T. Toppin reportedly received when he decided in April to withdraw his name from the NBA Draft and return for his junior year. Toppin will be one of many Texas Tech athletes (including softball pitcher NiJaree Canady, who is being paid a reported $1 million per year) who will benefit from the largesse of Cody Campbell, a former Red Raiders offensive lineman who became a billionaire in the oil business. Those transactions have nothing to do with NIL and everything to do with recruiting, making them prime examples of the type of arrangements that will not be permitted moving forward.
Some players enter the draft as a way to gain leverage in NIL contract talks and get more money to return to school. The elite players can even make more than a late first-round pick. The No. 28 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft is set to make $2.8 million next season based on the NBA’s rookie scale. Robert Wright III just left Baylor for BYU to make a reported $3 million next season. J.T. Toppin is reportedly getting $4 million to return to Texas Tech. Then there are the international players. Increasingly, they also are not entering the draft early. This year, 27 international players declared early. That’s the fewest since 2012, when just 17 players went into the draft as early entrants. That number hadn’t dipped below 30 in the years since.
Texas Tech guard De’Vion Harmon is headed to the 2023 NBA Draft. He announced the news Friday on Twitter.
No matter where Jarrett Culver goes, his heart will always be in Lubbock. The former Texas Tech basketball standout and current NBA guard will return to his native Lubbock from July 18-21 to host the second annual Jarrett Culver Basketball Camp.
The Texas Tech men's basketball team learned a key piece of the puzzle will be in the mix Wednesday. Fardaws Aimaq, a Utah State transfer, inferred via social media that he will withdraw from the NBA Draft and play collegiately at Texas Tech.
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Bryan Kalbrosky: Wake Forest's Jake LaRavia (@jacob_laravia3) and Texas Tech's Kevin McCullar Jr. (@Kevin_McCullar) signed with @AMRAgency for their representation. Both project as immediate NBA contributors. AMR also represents Austin Reaves, who had an excellent rookie season with the Lakers.
“In college we got to Big 12 tournament play, going to West Virginia, or TCU or Texas Tech, they’re chanting ‘F U’ from side to side,” Young remembered. “I like shushing people, man. People like to talk and say a lot of things towards me and toward my teammates. So when you’re on the road and you have a chance to shush a crowd, I think that’s the best thing.”
A charity founded in remembrance of former Texas Tech basketball star Andre Emmett held its first basketball camp Saturday, nearly two years after he was fatally shot in Dallas. Oliver Family Charities hosted a basketball day camp for 40 children ages 8-13 Saturday at the Moorland Family YMCA at Oak Cliff. Emmett, who played for the Red Raiders from 2000-04 and professionally in the NBA and overseas from 2004-12, was shot and killed outside his Dallas home in September 2019.
Matt Brooks: The following players have worked out with Nets, per a source: Mac McClung - Texas Tech Matt Coleman - Texas Jalen Tate - Arkansas
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Jovan Buha: The Lakers’ July 17 draft workout participants, per the team: Miles McBride - West Virginia Ayo Dosunmu - Illinois Sandro Mamukelashvili - Seton Hall Mac McClung - Texas Tech Jaden Springer - Tennessee Balsa Koprivica - Florida State
Former Texas Tech basketball star and current NBA player Jarrett Culver will sign autographs from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the new United Supermarkets location on 114th Street and Slide Road to promote a charitable partnership with local company, J’s Salsa. Throughout the month of July, J’s Salsa will donate 50 cents to the Culver Foundation for every jar purchased at Lubbock United Family stores.
In a tweet Sunday, Texas Tech guard Mac McClung said his focus would be on preparing for the NBA Draft, and that he was entering the transfer portal.
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