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 nan master ranks and nan workforce to enactment successful college, Van Wilder style, it's difficult not to beryllium black-pilled astir nan existent authorities of assemblage sports.

Brendan Sorsby of nan Cincinnati Bearcats laughs during warmups earlier their crippled against nan 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 nan pro ranks to onshore a player, arsenic nan LSU Tigers and caput coach Will Wade signed G League defender RJ Luis Jr. earlier connected Tuesday.

Luis comes to nan Tigers by measurement of nan Maine Celtics, nan G League connection of nan Boston Celtics, and was antecedently undrafted retired of St. John's, wherever he won Big East Player of nan Year a play prior.

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

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

He was, however, signed to a master team, and is presently ineligible to play for nan Tigers this coming season, truthful he will person to record a suit to resume his assemblage career.

While this isn't rather arsenic bad arsenic nan aforementioned business that took spot pinch Nate Oats and nan Alabama Crimson Tide, nan signing of Luis by LSU has galore group wondering wherever nan statement will beryllium drawn erstwhile it comes to collegiate basketball.

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

It's reliable to opportunity whether Luis will beryllium ruled eligible aliases not, but if he gets nan greenish flag, nan floodgates will unfastened for assemblage hoops programs crossed nan state to effort and motion arsenic galore undrafted free 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 nan chair during nan 2nd half 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 worried astir nan athletics falling down a slippery slope, I'd spell up and flip those fears retired nan window, because we look to already beryllium astatine nan bottommost of Mount Everest.

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