RJ Hampton, participating in a summer event in 2018, passed up college basketball to sign with a pro team in New Zealand. “It was just a path that was different than college,” Hampton said in a phone interview. “I’ll always kind of not necessarily miss college basketball, but college basketball is fun to me. I enjoy watching it and stuff like that, but at the same time college basketball is not my main goal. As basketball’s big men play more like guards, high school coaches face a dilemmaTheir grades kept them from Division I.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2019 12:00 UTC