CBS Sports: Report: Revised D-League pay could pave way for 'two-or-none' system
So what you would face as a high schooler with pro potential after graduating would be this. You can either go to college, but if you choose to do so, you will have to spend two-to-three years in college, risking injury, not getting paid, but playing on a bigger stage with, at times, better players. Or, you can go to the D-League, play in relative obscurity but in front of NBA personnel on a nightly basis, and make something closer to middle-class earnings.