Part of the G League’s motivation to increase the value of these contracts is to keep players like R.J. Hampton from going to Australia in the future. “They’re talking about we don’t want them to go to Australia, New Zealand,” Calipari said. “They’re not talking that many kids. ‘We don’t want to have to go travel.’ Well, you’re going to have to travel to see these kids anyway… I want to see in the next four or five years, the kids that chose to go to college, how they did. The money you’re going to get (from the G League) is negligible compared to what you will get if you really are good and get to your second (NBA) contract.”