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A new payday for teen basketball stars

MOST HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS PLAYERS ACROSS America—if they’re lucky—travel to their games in a yellow school bus. They might compete in front of the local junior-college scout. But members of Overtime Elite (OTE), the new professional basketball league for top 16-to-19-year-olds, arrive in style, to play before a far more influential audience.

On a crisp autumn morning in Atlanta, more than two dozen OTE pros stepped off a stretch-limo bus, one by one. The players entered the brand-new 103,000-sq.-ft. facility constructed by Overtime, a five-year-old digital sports-media startup that built a huge following posting Zion Williamson’s high school dunks on Instagram. Waiting for them at OTE’s inaugural “pro day”: some 60 pro

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