http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/boys/news/story?id=4090570
i don't like this at all...i am actually for guys being able to go straight to the league after high school but dropping out early....maybe its not so bad if he gets a GED first (its the principle)...
dude avg'ed 23, 15 and 8 blks as a sophomore.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJcyVNju4k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdc9FLt1Ovc
hard to judge his realness....when he is playing against guys his size it is an allstar game with no D or he is playing against guys way smaller than he in real games and they don't stand a chance.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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no, it's still as bad if he gets his GED. I don't know if this is a financial benefit as far as draft position in the NBA. It seems like it could be a short-sighted way of getting paid now, vs. waiting until later and getting more loot. If anything, he's guarenteed better coaching and more time dedicated to basketball due to the eliminate of the "farce" known as acedemia.
ReplyDeleteIf Brandon Jennings is a lottery pick after falling flat on his face in the Euroleague (Jennings is averaging 5.8 points and 2.3 assists per game in 18.1 minutes per game.[13] In 16 Euroleague games, Jennings averaged 7.6 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 1.2 steals in 19.6 minutes per game. thx wikipedia), this is going to be the new BKM.
While I do agree that he will get better by playing against pro players in Europe, this fool should not be dropping out of high school. Why can't he finish high school first? Someone should slap his guardian(s) for even allowing this kid to even discuss this option. This has gone way too far....
ReplyDeletei thought about this some more and i may be back pedalling a little and i basically using my same argument i use to support kids being able to turn pro immediately after high school...
ReplyDeleteif he is good enough why shouldn't he go...i think the age to turn pro in sports is highly racially motivated...because when sidney crosby, freddie adu, michelle wie, jennifer capriati, tony parker, dominican baseball players and the like want to go pro in their early teens in some cases no one says anything. but as soon as a BLACK AMERICAN in a traditionally BLACK SPORT (prejudged from the inner city hardship of single family homes) wants to go pro its a problem....
i tend to say let ppl do what the feel especially if they have demonstrated that they are good enough to execute at it.
i think in the long run he may be hurting himself as trevor pointed out...what if he goes over there and gets exposed by young dirk...why not just milk the college system, beast, go to class as you see fit but don't cheat, explore your options and get drafted high. why be the experimental guinea pig when blake and durant have showed you otherwise...plus i have not heard good things about the way euro basketball treats young talent
oh yeah there's a way to do this if he does it....
ReplyDeleteget a tutor like the other young sport prodigies and get a GED
I think the dude has a right to earn a living, kids drop out of school all the time to join the work force for one reason or the other, this is no difference here.
ReplyDeleteto me, success over there means that you're going to have to be driven to be great at basketball since there are no guarentees for playing time, and you're playing against grown men. folks looking like a HS version of lebron could physically hold up, but it's going to require making you a full time professional @ 17. I wasn't ready for that @ 17, i could argue if i was ready for that at 20. I'm intrigued by the idea, and it's a much better deal for the NBA. I just hope it's a good idea for the kids....
ReplyDeleteY'all are tripping. No one should be dropping out of high school to play pro ball. I don't want to hear about how soccer or tennis players do it. It's a physical game and the mental pressures are intense. A 16 year old is not ready for that. I don't care how talented he is. We are educated people... you're telling me that at 16 you would make good decisions with your $xx millions? Or would you spending it on cars, booze, drugs, ho's, etc... Could you deal with some sleeze ball agent who is just trying to use you? Pro leagues aren't designed to take care of these kids. No one is gonna hold his hand. It is just a bad idea all around.
ReplyDeleteBad idea!
jacked from john hollinger's column:
ReplyDeleteHere's some news that warms my heart: Highly touted high school big man Jeremy Tyler is going to forgo his senior year of high school to play professionally in Europe.
This upsets a lot of people, but it's just par for the course for elite athletes in almost every other sport, as well as for top-level basketball players overseas. Ricky Rubio, for instance, has been playing professionally since he was 14.
Given that the NBA has restricted the market for young players and that the NCAA system depends on virtually free labor, it's surprising to me that it's taken this long for somebody to make the jump. Tyler will get two years of high-level training while competing against grown men, a level of on-the-job learning that elite American prospects simply don't get it. Having a second year overseas should help, too -- as we've seen by the experience of Brandon Jennings this year, it can take time just to acclimate to the way the game is played over there.
We thought at the time that Jennings was a trailblazer; now Tyler is showing us how much further a player can go. Soon we'll see a high school sophomore, or even a freshman, try the same thing. And this creates an interesting conundrum for David Stern, because he has basically created a system where European leagues can poach the best young players without any competition. Right now the biggest thing stopping overseas teams is their own lack of organization.
So is the NBA missing an opportunity here??? Why not build an 18 and under league... market it... align it with good education programs... have good coaches involved... and build a farm system for the NBA. Once you build it, tyou can start poaching Euro kids as well. This would totally destroy the college game and the NCAA/NBA are in each others pocket. But still would be interesting.
ReplyDeletethe teen league sounds good on paper but they won't do that for the same reason there's an age limit now...mainstream does not like browns making money especially if they are young....i think they think AAU, nike challenges, mcdonald's all american, jordan challenges serves this purpose....
ReplyDeleteyou know here we like to pretend that we care about education (see the college system; coaches are the highest paid persons on university staff not the nobel laureate or president) so a league like this would severely undermind that falsified notion....the mere fact that high schoolers would be treated like college athletes (going to class 5 hrs out of the day and playing basketball for 5 hrs) and possibly being paid is OPENLY contradictory. what would make a kid go to college and be on scholarship only when they could be playing more elite basketball making $75k (if the farm league really took off it would soon escalate to six figures) a year as a 19 year old to be conservative....