Benno
Years ago
Australian point guard William McDowell-White informed ESPN he is entering the 2018 NBA Draft. McDowell-White is having an outstanding rookie season in Pro A Germany and made his Euroleague debut with Bamberg in December:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22967831/australian-guard-william-mcdowell-white-declares-2018-nba-draft
Interesting, thought he was sittting on the bench.
Curtley
Years ago
Is it just me or do so called American experts treat all leagues in Europe as equal? His stats are good but he's mostly playing German 2nd division.
Weird. Isn't he playing for Bamberg's B team/junior team?
Good stats but definitely playing in German 2nd tier competition, while still probably a reasonable league it has a few seabl guys playing in it.
Hogwash
Years ago
Good idea to gage interest as far as draft stock goes.
Can withdrawal before early entrant deadline and maintain eligibility for next two drafts.
Ben
Years ago
He's played a total of 3 minutes in 2 games with the big boys. The rest of his time has been in B Div. Ok stats.
Have to wonder how his development would have progressed had he had the smarts and discipline to stick it out with a good college program. Was listed as a 2nd round pick once upon a time.
German league is similar to the English premier league, as the bottom 2 go down and top 2 in 2nd division go up..
Think with McDowell-White team is a feeder to Bamberg and is a development team and is one of 2 dev teams in the Pro A league ...
The teams are good and got plenty of international players especially ex nba , college
playing in good competition...
His team has 2 USA imports 24/26 years of age and the rest young German kids from 16-24 year olds...
Would have to be rated higher than Liangelo 'Shoplifter" Ball surely
Boti Nagy Child Star
Years ago
Stop sleeping on LiAngelo. Kid is a steal.
SteveK2
Years ago
I reckon he'll pull out early. This is just an exposure exercise to maintain & perhaps increase NBA scouts' interest. He'll likely enter the next one or failing that will auto entered in the one after.
Had the smarts and discipline
Some things u don't know so shut ur mouth
Plus he’s done ok and still a 2nd round pick
And look at all our young kids pulling out of college(Wilson,McVeigh,Magnay,and just recently Froling...
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