If Jason Collins is going to play professional basketball again, it'll be in the NBA.
According to ESPN's Marc Stein, Collins could have joined Ricky Davis, Quincy Douby and the rest of the players hoping to make it back into the Association by submitting his name for the D-League draft, but he instead declined. An anonymous source told Stein that the big man wan't interested in playing sub-NBA ball, whether that came through the D-League or a professional league in a different country.
Instead, Collins will continue working out and striving to prove that his twin brother, Jarron Collins, was correct when he told ESPN that Jason was in "the best shape of his life." Jarron also said that he'd "never seen him as physically strong as he is now."
Stein continued his report, saying that there were multiple reasons Collins has yet to earn so much as a training camp invite.
One of the two primary concerns was expanded upon by Bleacher Report's Ric Bucher, who relayed a quote from an unnamed executive in the Association:
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Jason Collins Plans to Hold out for NBA Opportunity
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