After high school, Dominick Barlow spent a gap year at Overtime Elite in Atlanta, which...
Spurs forward Dominick Barlow, right, logged a season-high 19 minutes and scored a season-best eight points in the Spurs’ 125-106 loss to the Hawks on Saturday at Atlanta.CLEVELAND — Spurs coach Gregg Popovich looks at 19-year-old rookie Dominick Barlow and his 6-foot-9 bundle of grace and skill and sees much to like.
Much like the Ignite team in the G League, Overtime Elite provides players with a way to fulfill the NBA’s draft requirement that prospects must be one year removed from high school — without having to attend college. In only his seventh NBA game, Barlow logged a season-high 19 minutes and scored a season-best eight points in the Spurs’ 125-106 loss to the Hawks.Barlow acknowledges the college route is still optimal for many NBA prospects. It wasn’t for him.
Two players on the current OTE roster — twins Amen and Ausar Thompson — are projected to be top 10 picks in the next NBA draft.
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