Tuesday: Jordyn Jenkins doesn’t get drafted

UTSA’s star player will look to continue her career in a different path.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Not good news for utsa's Jordan Jenkins. Yesterday the w
NBA draft happened and she did not get drafted. I
would assume she'll get invited to someone's camp, which makes
it a lot more difficult. Now, none of those contracts.
I think the first round contracts you have to sign
them and there they're guaranteed to the rookie minimum. I

(00:24):
thought that worked. Maybe not, but the second and third
round are definitely not. And camp invites get a per
diem to show up and try out with the team,
and maybe she shows something that somebody overlooked. My guess
is that her path to the w NBA will to
play be to play overseas, someplace there are teams. There
are leagues in Spain, there are leagues in France and

(00:46):
Germany and all over Europe for them to play in.
I would imagine her agent as looking at those. As
I said many many times in the last few weeks,
they're used to be the best leagues used to be
in Russia, and Becky played there. Candas Parker played in Russia.
Candas Parker played in a place that was so far remote,
I mean it was a it was a three or

(01:06):
four hour flight to Moscow, and it was in the
upper upper regions of Siberia, and in the wintertime the
temperature never got above negative twenty. It was just I mean,
it was the opposite of hell on Earth. But you
were getting paid three hundred thousand dollars to be there
for five months, so you did it.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Or maybe even more than that.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
But anyway, it's that I think that'll be her path
if she unless she does surprise somebody in a in
a training camp invite. Well, yeah, you know, it was
unfortunate that she was not picked. But now she you know,
this is where her agent has to do the whole
you know, recruiting pitch like like in college, sending tapes

(01:49):
to all of these different organizations. And again I pun
and say, she has a little bit of an ace
in the hole with the head coach of the Las
Vegas Aces, with Becky Hammond.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
She's seen her here.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Maybe she gives her an invite or the other avenue
could possibly be with the three on three with the
unrivaled league. I know she's not necessarily a draw, but
that could be something another potential avenue for her to
get more.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't see how the three on three league, and
the one that that ice cube is doing. As you said,
the washed up NBA players, the Big three. I don't
see how those leagues survive without television and tell I
know it is, but television ratings are not gonna It
would be like it was like they did the TGL
thing this year for golf, and that was kind of fun.

(02:39):
But the Knights that Tiger wasn't playing, even though he
wasn't playing well. I guess he was hitting drivers well,
but he wasn't hitting a lot of shots well and
he didn't win.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
But the Knights that he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
There, the ratings were a third of what they had
been when he is there. And you have to have
star power for those leagues to exist and thrive. And
if they don't thrive, then the networks they're going to
stop showing it because they can't sell the ads around it.
And so while they got Paige Beckers and they paid
her well to do that as an offshoot to the WNBA,

(03:10):
and that means that Page does not have to play
in Europe. It used to be that if you wanted
to make a good living, you had to play in Europe,
and those players that chose to do that did so
because it was a payday, they got.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Paid the minimum well I don't know what minimum was, but.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Most of the good ones would get paid upwards of
two or three hundred thousand dollars. There was a story
about fifteen eighteen years ago. Lauren Jackson was playing for
Seattle and after whatever season it was, doesn't matter the year,
she decided she was not going to go back to
Russia and play. She told her Russian team, I'm taking
a year off. I need some rest time, i need

(03:51):
some downtime. There's places I want to go to and travel,
and I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Going to go to the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Season next year refreshed and hopefully Seattle wins the championship.
And as the season's winding down, Team A in Moscow
and Team B are the two best teams and it
was a couple of rival oligark slash mafia guys that
were fighting for the championship and Team a's center got
hurt and was going to be unavailable for the playoffs

(04:18):
for the postseason, and the way that the story was
told through the Grape Vinds of the w NBA circles
is the agent got a call from that team in
Russia and said, well, Lauren Jackson, come over and play
for four hundred thousand dollars in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, we'll be on the next flight. So that.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
They had lots of money. Unfortunately we don't. We're not
playing much basketball, I don't think right now in Russia
until the Ukraine thing is solved. All right, let's talk
about Travis Hunter and his demand. Next, it's the Indie
Everage Show or the ticket