With the Detroit Pistons offering tryouts to the public, we've taken a look at two former players who managed to pay their way to the league.
The Detroit Pistons' G League team, the Motor City Cruise, got people talking on social media after announcing their open tryouts.
Anyone looking to live out their basketball dreams just has to pay a non-refundable $250 fee. That gets you on the court in front of actual team scouts, plus a jersey and some game tickets.
Sure, the odds of actually making the roster are super slim, but basketball fans love the idea that a random $250 registration fee could literally be your foot in the door to the pros.
Both Jonathon Simmons and David Nwaba hit a wall where traditional scouting simply passed them by. Undrafted and running out of conventional options, paying a $150 fee for an open G League workout was essentially their last-ditch effort to keep their basketball dreams alive before quitting or moving on.

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