Former Alabama standout Charles Bediako, who entered the 2023 NBA draft and signed a two-way contract with the San Antonio Spurs that year, has been granted a temporary restraining order to return to the team and college basketball immediately, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Bediako, who went undrafted and never appeared in an NBA game after he played on two NCAA tournament teams at Alabama in 2021-22 and 2022-23, had sued the NCAA a day earlier after it denied the school’s appeal to allow him to return to college basketball.
The judge’s monumental ruling came hours after NCAA president Charlie Baker reiterated that Bediako and other players who’ve signed NBA contracts would not be granted eligibility to play college basketball.