Gorillaman
03-22-2010, 05:54 PM
Hey guys -
This is cross posted in the WBA forum, but I don't know whether people on these boards check both that forum and this one, wanted to give folks here a chance to throw in their two cents too. Thanks.
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I have been reading through posts on these forums for a little more than an hour, and I have to say I am more confused on this subject than I was when I started given all of the contrasting opinions there are on the WBA and the IBL.
I am close friends with a bball player looking for an opportunity to play overseas next year, and I am trying to help him out. He is a year out of school, dealt with some injuries late in his college career that he is finally 100% from, so now is kind of starting from scratch in terms of trying to play somewhere. I know he should be playing in one of these leagues this spring, and there is a GPBL team near his hometown, but I know the league is in its first year and I'm not sure whether that'd be of great use on the resume for playing somewhere this fall (he's hoping to play somewhere in Asia or perhaps Europe, planning to go to some of the Asian league camps this summer; he's pretty tall and reasonably skilled so this is conceivable). Anyway, it's awful hard to figure out which league makes the most sense given all the noise on this board, and the very scant information about the WBA and the IBL from just Googling on the internet (much less the leagues' rarely updated websites).
I know some of what I am going to get in response to this post is going to be tinged by whatever biases folks have here, but what he is really looking for as to input as to what having played in any of these leagues looks like to international teams. I.e. would it be just the same to put up good stats in a league like the GPBL than to be in the mix with decent stats one of these other two leagues? Does it even matter at all other than the experience/what the players learn while they're in the leagues themselves? Both the WBA and IBL market themselves as good launching points for overseas careers, but that's just from their own press releases/website. What's the truth?
This is cross posted in the WBA forum, but I don't know whether people on these boards check both that forum and this one, wanted to give folks here a chance to throw in their two cents too. Thanks.
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Post:
I have been reading through posts on these forums for a little more than an hour, and I have to say I am more confused on this subject than I was when I started given all of the contrasting opinions there are on the WBA and the IBL.
I am close friends with a bball player looking for an opportunity to play overseas next year, and I am trying to help him out. He is a year out of school, dealt with some injuries late in his college career that he is finally 100% from, so now is kind of starting from scratch in terms of trying to play somewhere. I know he should be playing in one of these leagues this spring, and there is a GPBL team near his hometown, but I know the league is in its first year and I'm not sure whether that'd be of great use on the resume for playing somewhere this fall (he's hoping to play somewhere in Asia or perhaps Europe, planning to go to some of the Asian league camps this summer; he's pretty tall and reasonably skilled so this is conceivable). Anyway, it's awful hard to figure out which league makes the most sense given all the noise on this board, and the very scant information about the WBA and the IBL from just Googling on the internet (much less the leagues' rarely updated websites).
I know some of what I am going to get in response to this post is going to be tinged by whatever biases folks have here, but what he is really looking for as to input as to what having played in any of these leagues looks like to international teams. I.e. would it be just the same to put up good stats in a league like the GPBL than to be in the mix with decent stats one of these other two leagues? Does it even matter at all other than the experience/what the players learn while they're in the leagues themselves? Both the WBA and IBL market themselves as good launching points for overseas careers, but that's just from their own press releases/website. What's the truth?