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- richirwin, on 06/22/2009, -1/+101Just goes to show that having talent doesn't mean you can be a ***** dick.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+32I'm not surprised. A one year rental with eligibility concerns, a pending legal case, and a "stage dad"? That doesn't spell tourney time to me, it says headache city for the AD, coach, and the rest of the team.
- roflmcwaffles, on 06/22/2009, -1/+19Alternatively he could play in Europe for a while before making the jump to the NBA, if the schools don't want him.
- arTech, on 06/22/2009, -1/+15I guess he's off to Greece for a year.
- davdev, on 06/22/2009, -0/+14who says he wants to take the college route, NBA rules no longer allow a player to be drafted straight from HS, so he has to play somewhere next year.
Maybe next time he can try not being a dick. I mean, really, how bad to you have to be that no college will take you? - DP84, on 06/22/2009, -1/+14What would Jesus Shuttlesworth do?
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+11I'm sure every single Knicks fan would love to be able to ask that very question.
- warchant, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10U of Memphis will welcome you with open arms. bring your baggage...we already have plenty to go around.
- blankmedia, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10go to europe
- allothersnsused, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10This is actually pretty refreshing to hear. I'm sick of "student" athletes being given break after break. Either this guy isn't as good as they say he is, or college execs might be learning a thing or two
- haiduz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9OMFG I LOVE SPAM!!!1
- itsmikey, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9it doesn't sound like he deserves the opportunity to play college hoops
- jayhawk88, on 06/22/2009, -0/+8I love that the two people he's being compared to are Telfair and Marbury, two guys who are damn near poster boys for selfish, "me-first" basketball players who never live up to their full potential and are cancers on a team with both their on-court and off-court antics.
Hey, here's an idea: If you want to play college basketball, don't go on questionable tours of major sports gear manufacturers factories, don't let documentaries that you may have profited from be made, don't sexually assault 17 year old girls, and don't generally just be a dick to anyone and everyone you meet. Not that hard really. - mlvassallo, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7That school has to accept you first.
- ptsuk, on 06/22/2009, -0/+6I dunno sounds like the perfect candidate for the NBA he's got all scandals covered. How can the NBA NOT take em ;)
- albatrossSKY, on 06/22/2009, -3/+9just play one year on a garbage team then declare yourself for the draft
- robbdammit, on 06/22/2009, -0/+5One, at 18 they may have game, but they still need to grow up mentally. They are all big fish back at home, but surround them with the best players in the world and the story changes. It takes a certain level of maturity to realize how to deal with this new dynamic.
Two, if the NBA didn't have these rules and all of these kids (who are usually surround by people telling them how great they are) skip college and register for the draft, most of them won't get drafted and now they lost out on a year of eligibility. And for those that do get drafted, some would make a career of the NBA but most would wash out after a year or three. Then they have very little to fall back on because they skipped college. Then all these moms and dads will be pointing their fingers at the NBA saying "you used up my kid and turned your back on him. I'm suing."
All this "I just want to play ball" talk is *****. It is really "I want to cash in on my talent right now" without any thought of the future. - Coven, on 06/22/2009, -0/+5there are still knicks fans?
- Spire3660, on 06/22/2009, -0/+5I really hate how someone can be a total ***** up, but if he can handle a ball, people tend to look the other way. A normal college applicant with this much 'what if' hanging in the air would automatically dismissed.
- nepidae, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4He needs to get an education first. Even apart from potential injury early in his career, he will need to know how to not blow all his money.
- SnuKs, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4Too bad he can't enter the NBA draft rightn now with that cocky attitude. He'll be eatin alive by the vets around the league, flashing his sense of entitlement.
- gfxlonghorn, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Because the NBA doesn't want to deal with a dickish 18 year old who thinks the rules don't apply to him so he can do whatever he wants. By him to go to college, even for one year, it forces him to learn how to follow the rules otherwise not play. You think they would not play him at the high school level? Of course not, he is the best player in NY.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Ok ok, I'm sure Spike Lee would love to be able to ask that very question.
- trunks7, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Firefox + Adblock Plus = problem solved
- tconnect80, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Don't worry, pro athletes, actors and musicians never run out of money
- vagrantwade, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2What exactly shows he will be better than Telfair or Marbury in the NBA? He has scored more points than both of them at Abraham...because they are both 6' and 6-2' point guards. And the only reason why he is more hyped than Marbury, is because Marbury went to Georgia Tech in 95-96. Not exactly as much hype around high school players back then.
- toekneebullard, on 06/22/2009, -1/+3It scares me how much a persons life can be determined by how well they play a game.
- Alli3388, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I don't think "nice people" get accused of sexual assault... "Innocent"? I doubt it. They're probably working hard on a smear campaign against the girl he groped.
- Kbriggs, on 06/22/2009, -1/+2Wish he would go to Memphis. After taking one of the largest shafts in sports history, it would be nice to get a top notch player regardless of history.
- flashpointbob, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1looks like he may not have a choice
- Zeigy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Cuz he's a dick. I still see your point though +1
- sizzzzlerz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1You haven't been following college basketball for long, have you?
- Jerky1312, on 06/22/2009, -5/+6The problem is, his talents were quite evident early on and he's been talked about a lot in Brooklyn. His father's willingness to cash in is probably a detriment right now and there are quite a few people who want to exploit the kid as well. None of that should have been on his plate at this age. It's also pretty said that a kid who actually wants to go to take the college route is being given the cold shoulder by many schools. He'll most likely be taken by a school, but I don't think they want to go to any school, but a solid program that'll mold him into an ideal NBA player. He's got all the talent in the world, but he needs to be groomed and any program wont do that for him.
He's going to be a very good player. He will easily be better than Telfair and I think better than Marbury. Not saying much with these two, but just to give some perspective. - INDOAZZ, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1He's GOT (1) year to Mature according to NBA standards.... what a joke....!
- CyclonusRIP, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I think most of the coaches are just trying to play coy, but the majority of them would make him an offer tomorrow if he told them that's where he wanted to play ball.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I'm sure the Blazers would take him in a heartbeat.
- dmobley, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1How tragic that someone with character issues can't get a part-time job at a college where he'll stay for a year then go to the NBA in any best-case scenario.
Worst case, he brings down an entire school and ruins their entire season by doing something questionable enough to get a school investigated where they'll almost certainly turn up other totally unrelated crap that'll cause the school no end of trouble.
The NBA needs a minor league. A valid minor league that's not the NCAA. That way the kids who aren't interested in parlaying their basketball ability into a free education for the other 50 years of their life they won't be playing basketball for a living, can do so without ruining it for the rest. Let hundreds of high schoolers get drafted into the NBA, put a max salary for the minor leagues in place and let the kids play basketball for a living and keep it separate from the NCAA system.
It'll never happen though because the big money schools would simply bribe the NBA to make sure it never happened. They're still sore about the small number of guys who skipped even a 1-year money tour of the NCAA to go straight to the NBA so they want to guarantee (despite the fact that most of the coaches hate it!) that talented kids at least have to drop a year into some college program where they'll hopefully get a lot of people to sink a lot of money.
Money, money, money. That's all it's about. - loudnobnoxious, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1We reward people who can play sports because it makes money and people fill the seats. Lots of brain-dead high school graduates end up being accepted to schools based on their physical and not their mental abilities.
- momedefome, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1Schools don't want to be in probation and stuff , he's gonna have to go play in Europe or something
- scarcasm, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Firefox and the custom MVPS hosts file FTW.
- KeithLM, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1So an organization like the NBA shouldn't be able to set its own rules for recruiting? I would think that forcing them to change their rules to suit you would be more anti-American. In fact, in what way does a rule setting minimum eligibility requirements have anything to do with communism? That makes no sense whatsoever? Are you just one of those idiots who thinks anything you don't like is communist, regardless what it actually means to be communist?
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -3/+3Is anyone else getting ***** ads that are preventing you from reading the actual story? What the ***** seriously.
- diggstown, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1If only he played football. Seems like a dream candidate for either the Cowboys or the Bengals.
- sizzzzlerz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0Too bad a whole lot of these kind of kids with serious attitude problems don't ever grow up. They just become the guys who ask you "You want fries with that" at the local McDonalds all the while thinking about what might have been.
- originaltinman, on 06/25/2009, -0/+0Who really gives a crap about monkey tennis anyway, it's about as fun to watch as a good curling competition.
- Spire3660, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0Thank you Captain Obvious?
- mrogi, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1If any NBA team does not want to draft a kid directly out of high school that team already has the absolute right to pick a college kid instead. That is free enterprise. A rule that prohibits an NBA team from drafting Lebron James or Kobe Bryant is anti free enterprise. It is communism. Each NBA franchise should be free to make an individual choice. Remove that stupid rule and next week Lance Stephenson would be an NBA lottery pick. That is what American meritocracy is all about.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1He'll probably end up going to Europe, where they won't be as tolerant of his ***** (*****?). Once he matures and stops being a total dick, he might get an NBA shot.
- radiofan, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0Who needs the hassle? I wonder if NBA teams are also questioning this kid's value.
- sizzzzlerz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0Where's Jerry Tarkanian when you need him?
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