re: Why do more one and done players not play in Europe?

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“I’ve gotten paid on time once this year,” Jennings said in an e-mail message. “They treat me like I’m a little kid. They don’t see me as a man. If you get on a good team, you might not play a lot. Some nights you’ll play a lot; some nights you won’t play at all. That’s just how it is.”

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Not only did Douglas-Roberts continually feel like “the foreigner,” as he found it hard to communicate with his teammates, but some of the adjustments exceeded even his worst expectations.

“I didn’t have hot water some days, I didn’t have heat in the winter,” he says. “Where we practiced, the showers were filled with mold. It was really unsanitary. I couldn’t really adjust to [it] when I was over there all year. It was a struggle every day.”

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