Audio: Lamond Murray on Recruiting, Lockout and Overseas Hoops

Each summer the phone for many elite high school athletes begins ringing incessantly as college coaches vie for their affections. For a young student athlete, this may be a tough situation to handle.

That is where groups like NCSA come in. NCSA acts almost as a median between college coaches, and a student athlete.

Recently former NBA swingman Lamond Murray joined the staff at NCSA after a successful professional career. I recently spoke with Murray about college recruiting, the lockout, and his experiences with overseas basketball.

Among the interesting post-lockout points Murray makes is about the fate of those who chose to take their talents overseas. A little over a week ago, Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted, “Chinese teams have shown no inclination to let Kenyon Martin, Wilson Chandler, JR Smith, Etc., out of contracts, sources tell Y! Sports.”

Murray’s reaction tells of the worst kept secret in overseas ball:

It’s a month- to-month contract number one, so I don’t know what the deal is in terms of these guys when they say they can’t come back from China because at any time during the contract as a player…they can replace you at any time month-to-month no matter what the contract says…

So I don’t know why they’re still sitting there in China like “Hey, we can’t leave,” because the rules says there [are] no rules…You can come back at any time. Just break the contract and leave…

The contracts are so bad that you are that you’re there one month and a guy shows up to practice to replace you and you don’t know what’s going on. It’s a really dirty business when you play overseas.

You can listen to the full interview on the player below, or download the audio here.

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