I agree if a high school player is good enough to be be a professional they should be able to do that if that is their choice. No point in forcing them to be one year out of prep ranks just to help NBA teams evaluation. The G-League aligning with specific teams and becoming a true development league for those franchises and raising the salaries is becoming a better option if they don't get drafted..
Would you say the same thing about a doctor? If a high schooler is good enough to be a doctor, should they be able to perform surgery? No point in forcing them to get a medical degree?
I look at it that way. The NBA, as a business, believes that their employees must be a year out of high school before they can hire them.
There is an Amy Dash ( @AmyDashTV ) claiming she has seen further documents where Monte is named as actually taking cash. Hopefully just being a hot take machine for clicks and not true.
There is an Amy Dash ( @AmyDashTV ) claiming she has seen further documents where Monte is named as actually taking cash. Hopefully just being a hot take machine for clicks and not true.
And, has been stated earlier in this thread, the player can simply donate the equivalent $'s back to a charity to clear their name.I checked out her twitter and she is saying she saw the legal documents the article is based off of and she is referring to the meal being payed for, which would be an NCAA violation. In other words it's nothing new and there is nothing to see here.
This is exactly what she meant.I’m not sure if she’s assuming meals=money.
We already know the NCAA has serious structural and integrity problems. Unfortunately their faults result in good kids like Monte being tossed under the bus by low-life media looking for hits.Also can we talk about how ****** this is for the players. Let’s assume montes Mom is telling the truth (and we have no reason not to believe her), agents are trolling these players all of the time. No wonder some of them cave.
When it comes to their blue bloods The NCAA everyone.It would be interesting if the FBI would ever go after the NCAA for their corruption at times such as the UNC thing and their so called fake classes and NCAA just swept that under the rug.
In my best Allen Iverson voice: "We ain't talkin' 'bout no hookers. We talkin' 'bout breakfast!"Taking a step back for a moment, I can't get over the utter hilarity of this. An adult purchases breakfast for another adult and all of the sudden it's as though the integrity of our basketball program is at stake. It's national news.
Breakfast. A grand slam breakfast from Dennys. Maybe if he's lucky he got a nice buffet with a little omelet station. We aren't talking about hooker and blow here. We aren't talking about a fancy steak dinner. This isn't exactly "He Got Game". We are talking about breakfast.
An adult buys (or doesn't buy, hell who knows) another adult breakfast and it's national news.
Couple questions for those 'more' in the know:
- This article appears to be FBI. Unless the NCAA piggy backs off the FBI investigation to levy penalties, it appears the worst done so far is tax evasion. Is this a correct assumption?
- I'm curious about the rule which 'allows' a student to test the waters of the NBA yet return to college if they opt not to pursue that. During 'that' period, are NCAA rules explicitly defined?
Would you say the same thing about a doctor? If a high schooler is good enough to be a doctor, should they be able to perform surgery? No point in forcing them to get a medical degree?
I look at it that way. The NBA, as a business, believes that their employees must be a year out of high school before they can hire them.