i know jason whitlock aint popular here................

[Darius]

i usually like Whitlock, but i don't really agree with his points. I like what he is trying to achieve, but don't agree with how he wants to get there.

but the point i do most cosign is allowing the college players to play in summer leagues as 'interns.'

 

[mikelewis]

i usually like Whitlock, but i don't really agree with his points. I like what he is trying to achieve, but don't agree with how he wants to get there.

but the point i do most cosign is allowing the college players to play in summer leagues as 'interns.'

I definitely agree with the internship, also I agree with the aptitude tests for kids coming out of high-school as well as the first-four-years pay scale.

 

[DarcSkies]

Translation: Be a fucking coon and apologize for being 6'8" with the ability to dunk from the damn 3-point line and hate yourself as much as I do. I wish I didnt have to study and suck cracker dick to make money. But I do and I hate that you dont have to...boo fucking hoo.

The league doesnt need changing. Except for foul calls that arent even fouls. Crackers are just going to have to adjust to black males having control over their own careers. Something crackers havent had to get used to on a large scale before. They'll be alright. Nothing needs to change.

 

[S2J]

Not reading it. And not b/c its too long, but its too much.

Less is more.

Reminds me of when Jeff Van Gundy has his hairbrained schemes

Shyt is illogical at best.

...Less is more.

 

[arbitration]

Translation: Be a fucking coon and apologize for being 6'8" with the ability to dunk from the damn 3-point line and hate yourself as much as I do.

Thats about right

 

[lamontbdc]

Translation: Be a fucking coon and apologize for being 6'8" with the ability to dunk from the damn 3-point line and hate yourself as much as I do. I wish I didnt have to study and suck cracker dick to make money. But I do and I hate that you dont have to...boo fucking hoo.

The league doesnt need changing. Except for foul calls that arent even fouls. Crackers are just going to have to adjust to black males having control over their own careers. Something crackers havent had to get used to on a large scale before. They'll be alright. Nothing needs to change.

exactly. all they are saying is we don't believe young black men at 18 should get a check and be responsible. the problem isn't the guys going to the league the problem are the rest of the bum ass players that aren't' being coached up

 

[Darius]

Translation: Be a fucking coon and apologize for being 6'8" with the ability to dunk from the damn 3-point line and hate yourself as much as I do. I wish I didnt have to study and suck cracker dick to make money. But I do and I hate that you dont have to...boo fucking hoo.

The league doesnt need changing. Except for foul calls that arent even fouls. Crackers are just going to have to adjust to black males having control over their own careers. Something crackers havent had to get used to on a large scale before. They'll be alright. Nothing needs to change.

if that were the case then why do we not hear the same complaints about black men in the NFL controlling their careers or kids right out of high school jumping right into professional baseball?

 

[S2J]

if that were the case then why do we not hear the same complaints about black men in the NFL controlling their careers or kids right out of high school jumping right into professional baseball?

Loan denied.

Football checks itself. Players are not physically ready to play pro football at 18 (insert random exception to the rule)

Baseball? Please. 1000 kids are drafted each year. Literally. It also cleans it's self up b/c its so hit and miss

NBA...Different monster all together. Kids are becoming multi-millionaires overnight.

The league is cashing in on the stars, 80% of whom played 2 yrs or less in college.

 

[smokelahoma]

Whitlock is an idiot, number 7 is the dumbest shit Ive ever heard.

 

[peacetothereal1]

The intern shit sounds good....but would never work for the majority of players that you want to stay in college and how does it help the LEAGUE, it only helps the college team.

 

[mikelewis]

But it's not about shucking and jiving or being a coon, it's about helping those young kids out there who sign quickly in the NBA, get full of themselves, leave and wind up broke after foregoing college to play pro-basketball.

An organization is investing a small fortune in a young male for their talents and services. This young man will represent the organization on and off the court, so they deserve the right to make sure the guy is able to handle the responsibility of having that amount of money and the knowledge to maintain himself mentally with it. Owners want more of a Tim Duncan than an Allen Iverson, and for what they have to shell out, they should have a right to groom a player to be that way.

And what can they do, protest, say they won't play?? Fair enough, the next guy behind you that is equally talented will get your spot, and rest assured he'll get an education, take those tests, and calm the attitude down to get that check in the end.

 

[t_m_a_c_f_a_n73088]

jason whitlock is a fucking idiot who just tries to go against the grain. He supported cam newton when everyone was shitting on him and now he's doing the opposite since people are hyping him up. Everything he does is for shock value, he's the rush limbaugh of journalism w/out the racism. He make the most ignorant stereotypes and he's part of the problem not the solution. The problem with america as a whole is that they equate a certain look with ignorance which is retarded in itself, if more blacks were educated people wouldn't give a fuck how we looked because they wouldn't know if we worked for a law firm or @ fuckin subway.....

 

[t_m_a_c_f_a_n73088]

But it's not about shucking and jiving or being a coon, it's about helping those young kids out there who sign quickly in the NBA, get full of themselves, leave and wind up broke after foregoing college to play pro-basketball.

An organization is investing a small fortune in a young male for their talents and services. This young man will represent the organization on and off the court, so they deserve the right to make sure the guy is able to handle the responsibility of having that amount of money and the knowledge to maintain himself mentally with it. Owners want more of a Tim Duncan than an Allen Iverson, and for what they have to shell out, they should have a right to groom a player to be that way.

And what can they do, protest, say they won't play?? Fair enough, the next guy behind you that is equally talented will get your spot, and rest assured he'll get an education, take those tests, and calm the attitude down to get that check in the end.

THIS IS THE PROBLEM, but "changing them" into what success looks like in his eyes is not the solution. How about we really go after these agents who are in these kids ear from the time they're 13+, how about we get on these aau coaches who have these kids all in their house buying them who knows what and making them forgot playing for their high school is important. The system makes these kids these way they are they don't do it themselves, and keeping a dude from inking his fucking body or making him pass a test doesn't change that.

 

[peacetothereal1]

But it's not about shucking and jiving or being a coon, it's about helping those young kids out there who sign quickly in the NBA, get full of themselves, leave and wind up broke after foregoing college to play pro-basketball.

An organization is investing a small fortune in a young male for their talents and services. This young man will represent the organization on and off the court, so they deserve the right to make sure the guy is able to handle the responsibility of having that amount of money and the knowledge to maintain himself mentally with it. Owners want more of a Tim Duncan than an Allen Iverson, and for what they have to shell out, they should have a right to groom a player to be that way.

And what can they do, protest, say they won't play?? Fair enough, the next guy behind you that is equally talented will get your spot, and rest assured he'll get an education, take those tests, and calm the attitude down to get that check in the end.

Are you for real? Seriously? If you can put up 30 and 10 a game people don't give a fuck how you look or dress...at all...and if they do...fuck'em.

 

[aneed123]

the nba needs to put real money behind their d league like baseball. Hockey be getting teens and there is no issue. a lot of these kids are poor so the NBA is their job/lottery ticket. If they are lottery pick its not right to hold them back

 

[rage]

but he wrote an article today about how he would change the NBA, and some of his suggestions make some sense, the original article is a titangraph so i just put up his suggestions:

1. Come up with a pay system that is 60 percent controlled by the individual teams and 40 percent controlled by the league. Teams would control a player’s base salary. The league would dispense money based on team and individual performance.

2. Reach an agreement with the NCAA that allows the top 100 college players/prospects to play in the NBA summer league. Pay the players as interns. Freshman get $25,000, sophomores $50,000, juniors $75,000 and seniors $100,000. Structure the summer league as a playing and educational experience. Teach the players about the history of the league and their responsibility to take care of the league and represent it in a way that grows the value of the league.

3. Register and monitor high school prospects, give them a standardized academic test upon graduation that — depending on the score — would qualify them for a financial boost should they later earn a spot on an NBA roster. This would provide an incentive for kids (and their parents) to compete academically.

4. Devise a first-four-years pay scale that pays a player extra money based on how many years of college he completed. A boy enters the league at 18, fresh out of high school, he earns less than a 22-year-old man with a college degree or even a 21-year-old who developed in college for two or three years. A kid can enter the NBA straight out of high school, but there are financial consequences for the decision.

5. Develop a compensation system that slots players 1 to 20 on the roster. Stick with me. I know the roster limit is 15. The team-controlled portion of player salaries will be fixed on a 1-to-20 basis. The No. 1 player on a roster (Kobe Bryant, for instance) would receive a base salary of, let’s say, $10 million. A player slotted at No. 2 would earn $8 million. No. 3 $6 million. If you’re the Sacramento Kings, you might not have a player worthy of a No. 1 contract. The Kings' top player might be slotted at No. 4 and be assigned a base salary of $5 million. Maybe the Miami Heat don’t have players worthy of being 5, 6 or 7. The Heat might slot Carlos Arroyo, Mario Chalmers and Juwan Howard at 17, 18 and 19, which would qualify them for base contracts between $400,000 and $750,000. Also, maybe Dwyane Wade and LeBron James won’t want to play alongside each other if one of them is going to have to settle for being a No. 2.

6. This might take a team of MIT graduates, but figure out how to cut up the league-controlled portion of player salaries based mostly on regular-season wins and then on playoff success. If Kobe leads the Lakers to 65 victories and the title, he should earn approximately an additional $6.5 million in bonuses. Pau Gasol, the Lakers’ No. 2, would earn an additional $5.5 million. I’m not smart enough to tell you how much Kobe should earn per regular-season victory or playoff series win, but there are people who can do the math. The league-controlled victory bonus would be slotted, too.

7. I’d come up with a no-tattoo bonus. Yeah, I know that ticks some of you off. Basketball is the ultimate television sport. Tattoos are not TV friendly. I’d give young players an incentive to not graffiti their bodies before entering the NBA.

8. I’d contract two to four teams. I’d make the remaining teams play four games per season in a satellite home city. The Lakers would partner with Las Vegas. The Clippers would partner with San Diego. The Pacers could play in Cincinnati, the Cavaliers in Columbus.

Implement these suggestions over a five-year period and the NBA is fixed and challenging the NFL for supremacy by 2017.

What a fucking moron...I swear this dude just needs to shut the fuck up. Non-Tattoo bonus?? How about a non-fat ass rule for sports writers..they correlate in the same way.

 

[StoneColdMikey]

This guy is an idiot

 

[rage]

Can someone explain this fascination with staying in college/uni? Dont we go to college to make millions of dollars? Whats the point of turning down millions of dollars to stay in college and possibly fuck up that opportunity.

 

[Darius]

Lol @ a dude getting clowned by black people for offering up a dialogue on providing black kids incentives to get a college degree and then giving them the option to still make millions if they do or don't take advantages of staying in school.

Report: let's try ways to allow black kids a better opportunity to get a degree

Black people: Hellll naw coons wanna kiss crackas asses to better they own career. Fuck
dat. Our kids were raised to hoop. They we ain't lettin that training go to waste so they can go to some damn school that will get rich off my kid. Nah. We gone keep it real and go to the league for a couple years, make a white owner some money then end up blowing all their money, Then end up on the streets telling anyone who will listen about how that one time in practice they almost crossed over lebron

 

[peacetothereal1]

Can someone explain this fascination with staying in college/uni? Dont we go to college to make millions of dollars? Whats the point of turning down millions of dollars to stay in college and possibly fuck up that opportunity.

Well, it's only talked about when it comes to basketball.

White people in America hate to see a young nigga rich. In baseball it's no issue, in Hockey it's no issue, soccer, and so on and so on because the athletes aren't majority black.

They built this stigma that young black basketball players are dumb and uneducated and thus need to stay in college in order to "mature". There are only a few examples that need to be given to debunk this myth...but white racist and in this case uncle tom America wont let go.

Examples:

Lebron

Kobe

Garnett

................

There are plenty of other players who came out of high school who are very solid. Some that aren't.

The majority of College Players DO NOT PAN OUT EITHER. But they'll have YOU believe that it's just the young dumb ignorant rich nigga making that early jump. Not True

And Allen Iverson...the epitome of what white America hates went to College...Georgetown. Smh.