A few years ago NBA Commissioner David Stern and NCAA President Myles Brand came together and established the one year rule, which states that an incoming NBA player must be out of high school for at least one year prior to the draft. The rule was stated as a move to lead high school players into college to help them mature and get an education. In reality it was a financially driven move by both sides. NBA owners could see these anointed high school prodigies for at least a year in college to help weed out the busts. Meanwhile big conference college programs could essentially rent these players out for at least a season and reap huge profits and program notoriety. It was a win-win situation and there has been talk of expanding the rule to two years out of college.
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The Guru’s 2008 NBA Draft Review
Team By Team Breakdown of Draft Picks
After year two of the NBA’s “one-and-done” experiment, a new crop of kids will be collecting millions of dollars, having their name plastered across ugly overpriced shoes and either joining the list of draft busts or draft steals. Though this draft wasn’t as deep as drafts past, it still had a lot of quality players available. But, as they always do, NBA GM’s and big wigs will find a way to screw up the future of their franchise.
Here’s a report card of the winners and losers from Thursday night.
The Guru Predicts The 2008 NBA Draft Lottery
The ping-pong balls are done bouncing and the Association has once again found a way to make all the conspiracy theorists, like myself, concoct new assumptions about its self-serving manipulation.
But far be it from me to ever question Mr. Stern or the integrity of his league, you know the league with the betting refs, the painfully predictable games, and the one that once employed Tom Tolbert; that league.
But I digress. The next crop of “one-and-dones” is ready to start collecting millions of dollars while trying to avoid the ranks of Kwame Brown, Darius Miles, and Michael Olowokandi. But unlike the aforementioned busts, this next generation of kids can at least say they know what a college gym looks like.
I still think the NBA should extend the age limit rule to two years removed from high school, forcing these kids to actually take notes in class instead of doodling sketches of their first ugly, over-priced shoe.
There I go getting off topic again…
Here’s how I think June’s lottery will shake out:
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The Madness Has Arrived
by Trevor Freeman
Jalapeno Poppers. Glass Slippers. Yuengling. Bryce Drew. Chili Cheese Nachos. Harold Arcenaux. Chicken Wings. Rumeal Robinson. Budweiser. Bill Raftery. Mozzarella Sticks. Bracket Busters. Tequila. Jeff Fryar. Are you filling out your bracket right now? Is today the most unproductive Monday you have had in weeks? Don’t be concerned. It is that way for everybody. It was an excruciating wait between now and the end of the Super Bowl, but it is finally here. Ladies and Gentleman……….the Madness has arrived.
Alex Ferguson previews Monday’s college football National Championship Game between LSU and Ohio State…
Over the past few years, the Southern Illinois Salukis have become a reoccurring member of March Madness. Not only do the Salukis take their gritty defensive game into the tournament year after year, but they usually hang around in March, and they drive opponents crazy.
And now, the regular season over. Kansas and LSU’s gooses (or should I say turkeys?) are cooked, and we’ve only got one week to go before a month of non-stop controversy.
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A Vote For Hawaii
by Trevor Freeman
Before I get rolling, let the record show that my being a part of ten consecutive Waikiki bar crawls was a nonfactor in getting this column off the ground. In fact, I resent any implication that my love of Mai Thais, the hula, surfing and the hula had any bearing on the argument I am about to make.
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Big Ten Football Rocks!
Hey all you Big Ten bashers! What’s your problem? You just don’t like success? Why do you keep picking on the greatest conference in college football?
Didn’t you know that with 43 out of 44 non-conference games played, the Big Ten has only lost 8 games? Of those 8, Michigan lost those two fluke games and 3 others were lost by Minnesota. This means only 3 other teams lost a non-conference game. Is that dominance or what?
Ron Zook for Coach of the Year? Michigan loses again? Goodbye Dennis Franchione? Alex Ferguson looks back at Week 11 of the college football season….