So what about a player who was promised a lot and didn't get anything? He can't publicly talk about what happened in his situation? He can talk about it but others can't?
I think you're getting at the heart of it, it's not
supposed to be a playing salary, but it 100% is a playing salary. They didn't think Tyrese Hunter looked like the ideal guy for a car dealership billboard, they liked what they saw in the NCAA game.
If I were a big contributor to the We Will Collective or Swarm or whatever and they went all in for some stud player who bombed, I'd be hoping they didn't sign him up for another year.
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247sports.com
With eyes looking ahead towards the first weeks of March, we want to look back at the 2022 Transfer Portal and re-rank the top 10 players from the boisterous portal class.
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Ironically the article also ranks the 10 best basketball transfers after seeing them play and Hunter went from #2 to not top ten...which is all some of us are saying. If it was about raising his profile he actually lowered his profile.