http://www.wildcats.com.au/news/article/bryce-cotton-signs-in-italy

I tweeted a screen and link this morning and a bunch of question marks.

Screenshot was sent to me by a friend who thought it was real. I was questionable (especially because of the old picture).

Googled "Cotton signs in Italy" and the wildcats site link popped up. Was on mobile device so couldn't see dates.

Confirmed it's from 2018 thanks to some twitter users and a bit deeper googling.

There's too much uncertainty right now

I doubt any Italian teams are making signings given their situation right now

But, the following circumstances would create a situation where top Aussies go to Europe:

- COVID19 has infected more Europeans than currently realised, due to inadequate testing and because more people are asymptomatic than we realised

- This results in a type of herd immunity taking place in Spain, France, Germany, Italy

- Europe goes back to life-as-we-know-it quicker than Australia, where we successfully flattened the curve but haven't reached the herd immunity

- Therefore NBL more impacted than Euro leagues, Aus salaries remain impacted due to no mass gatherings here

All the COVID research is ongoing and there's lots of uncertainty. But the above scenario is one of many possibilities.

And when I say "top Aussies" I meant top NBL players obviously, not just Australian local stars

I didn't mean to troll with this one. Got trolled myself as I was actually questioning if it was real.

How hard is it for the NBL website to put dates on their articles?
When you open the article it says 'Latest News' and is listed first in the article list. There's nothing there to suggest it's an old article.

Won't matter, 10 flags is enough for anyone to reminisce over for years to come.

This is more of a troll of non-Wildcats fans giving them false hope.

yeah, its a weird quirk of the NBL website system.
If you browse the website, the articles are correctly presented.
But if you search, and/or go direct to an article, it is shown at the top as "latest news" ROFL

It's great seeing so many want to keep him in the league as he is such a talent and outstanding role model so losing him to NBL would be massive

Don't worry fellas. Cotton isn't interested in going anywhere. Head Coach Trev is right.

Bryce just put a massive teaser on his instagram, 45 second video of him talking abut his big thing he's been "working on" which has been "slowed by the virus" but it's "still happening" he hopes we are "all excited" when he can share it soon

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OtXdvDfAGWetzdy4zz1nWyyFFojKK6lKVRrg0/

Bryce just put a massive teaser on his instagram, 45 second video of him talking abut his big thing he's been "working on" which has been "slowed by the virus" but it's "still happening" he hopes we are "all excited" when he can share it soon

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OtXdvDfAGWetzdy4zz1nWyyFFojKK6lKVRrg0/

Bryce just put a massive teaser on his instagram, 45 second video of him talking abut his big thing he's been "working on" which has been "slowed by the virus" but it's "still happening" he hopes we are "all excited" when he can share it soon

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OtXdvDfAGWetzdy4zz1nWyyFFojKK6lKVRrg0/

They can't get new deals.

Would the big thing he's been working on be citizenship??

Have any other players not signed in Italy yet?

I have it on strong advice that Mitch McCarron has also not signed in Italy.

They can get new deals, there is a two week sabbatical for players to opt out.

I assume so

OP is a wang chomper. Fake news