LSU latest basketball program to tap into G League ranks, signing former pro guard RJ Luis Jr

The NCAA has been a spot of a messiness arsenic of late.

Between players getting popped for sports betting scandals and guys successful their mid-20s eschewing some the nonrecreational ranks and the workforce to enactment successful college, Van Wilder style, it's hard not to beryllium black-pilled astir the existent authorities of assemblage sports.

Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats laughs during warmups earlier their crippled against the Utah Utes astatine Rice-Eccles Stadium successful Salt Lake City, Utah, connected Nov. 1, 2025. (Chris Gardner/Getty Images)

Speaking of which, we saw yet different lawsuit of a assemblage hoops squad tapping into the pro ranks to onshore a player, arsenic the LSU Tigers and caput manager Will Wade signed G League defender RJ Luis Jr. earlier connected Tuesday.

Luis comes to the Tigers by mode of the Maine Celtics, the G League affiliate of the Boston Celtics, and was antecedently undrafted retired of St. John's, wherever helium won Big East Player of the Year a play prior.

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To springiness LSU adjacent a shred of payment of the uncertainty here, the Tigers didn't motion Luis successful the mediate of the play caller disconnected a G League roster to effort and bolster a tournament, truthful this isn't precisely an apples-to-apples examination to the infamous Charles Bediako fiasco that took spot successful Tuscaloosa earlier this year.

Charles Bediako of the Alabama Crimson Tide reacts during the 2nd fractional successful the Sweet 16 circular of the NCAA men's hoops tourney astatine KFC YUM! Center against the San Diego State Aztecs connected March 24, 2023, successful Louisville, Ky. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

He was, however, signed to a nonrecreational team, and is presently ineligible to play for the Tigers this coming season, truthful helium volition person to record a suit to resume his assemblage career.

While this isn't rather arsenic atrocious arsenic the aforementioned concern that took spot with Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide, the signing of Luis by LSU has galore radical wondering wherever the enactment volition beryllium drawn erstwhile it comes to collegiate basketball.

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It genuinely feels similar the Wild West successful collegiate athletics close now, and hoops seems to beryllium the extremity of the spear erstwhile it comes to bending the rules.

It's pugnacious to accidental whether Luis volition beryllium ruled eligible oregon not, but if helium gets the greenish flag, the floodgates volition unfastened for assemblage hoops programs crossed the state to effort and motion arsenic galore undrafted escaped agents and G League players arsenic they can.

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St. John's defender RJ Luis Jr. and defender Kadary Richmond beryllium connected the seat during the 2nd fractional of a second-round NCAA Tournament crippled against Arkansas astatine Amica Mutual Pavilion connected March 22, 2025. (Brian Fluharty/Imagn Images)

If you're a large assemblage sports instrumentality and you're disquieted astir the athletics falling down a slippery slope, I'd spell up and flip those fears retired the window, due to the fact that we look to already beryllium astatine the bottommost of Mount Everest.

Whether oregon not we tin ever ascent backmost to the acme remains to beryllium seen, but I'm not going to get my hopes up anytime soon.