Report: 5-star prospect Isaiah Todd to join Jalen Green in G League

Five-star forward Isaiah Todd plans to sign a deal in the NBA's G League and join a new team based in Southern California featuring top prospect Jalen Green, The Athletic's Shams Charania reports.

Todd, who recently decommitted from playing for head coach Juwan Howard at Michigan, joins Green as the second high-profile athlete in the NBA's new player development initiative for elite prospects.

Top prospects can receive a salary up to $500,000 to play in the G League while also having access to a one-year development program, according to ESPN. If Todd reaches all of the bonuses in his contract, he'll receive a salary of approximately $250,000.

"When you look around the world at the market that's been created, where we started at $125,000 wasn't enough - certainly not in itself. ... For a top kid with options, that was a tough sell," G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim said in reference to the league's prior "select contract" measure and the need to increase the financial incentives for prospects.

The move to create a more enticing development program through the G League stemmed from high-caliber players, including LaMelo Ball and R.J. Hampton, foregoing the NCAA to go overseas before declaring for the draft, ESPN's Jonathan Givony and Adrian Wojnarowski note.

"The NBA is the best development system in the world, and those players shouldn't have to go somewhere else to develop for a year. They should be in our development system," Abdur-Rahim added.

Green and Todd are already helping set a strong foundation for the new initiative. Fellow top prospects Makur Maker, Karim Mane, and Kai Sotto could join the duo in the G League, sources told Givony and Wojnarowski.