EAST LANSING – It doesn’t take much to get Tom Izzo to spout about the NCAA. Not these days, with the constant rules changes and current trend away from amateurism toward college sports becoming professional minor leagues.

Getting a slam-dunk opinion from the 70-year-old Basketball Hall of Fame coach on the latest landscape-altering decision – granting a G League pro eligibility to play Division I hoops – was a layup.

I asked Izzo after practice Tuesday, Oct. 21, two days before Michigan State basketball’s exhibition opener against Bowling Green, about the NCAA’s ruling to allow guard London Johnson to play for Louisiville .

Johnson is a 21-year-old former four-star recruit who originally reclassified to the 2022 class, then eschewed college hoops to sign a highly publicized con

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