IT won't be that long until Ignite makes its much-awaited debut.
The NBA G League select team, made up of elite high school talents featuring Filipino wunderkind Kai Sotto and Fil-Am Jalen Green, is set to make its debut in a bubble environment sometime in November.
According to a tweet by Shams Charania of The Athletic, the league's development arm is in talks of holding a tournament which will see team Ignite test its mettle against other teams.
"The NBA G League is seriously discussing tournament featuring the elite Ignite team — led by Jalen Green and Jonathan Kuminga — and other teams (undrafted players, etc.) in a bubble environment in November/December. Decisions are still fluid," he said in his tweet on Tuesday.
Sotto, together with peers Green, Isaiah Todd, Daishen Nix, Jonathan Kuminga, and Princepal Singh, are currently training in the team's home base in Walnut Creek, California under the watchful eye of head coach Brian Shaw.
If it pushes through, this will be the first time that the select team will be tested ahead of the still to be announced 2020-21 season.
Teams which the NBA is planning to put up will likely consist of players who will go undrafted in the 2020 NBA Draft scheduled on November 18.
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