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published on Jul 21, 2008

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SMART
AFRICAN AMERICAN
BRANDON JENNINGS

REFUSES
NBA / NCAA
SUCKER
DEAL

Brandon Jennings

SMART YOUNG MAN



Turns out Brandon Jennings

is nobody's FOOL unlike

other talented young

Basketball Players

BRANDON  IS GOING TO ITALY to serve out his BS "penalty" year that he must wait  after finishing High School before entering the NBA Draft. Occasionally  ONLY occasionally the Air Bags like NBA Commissioner David Stern and  NCAA President Myles Brand run across someone who knows what everyone  should know - they are SMARTER than these two money grubbing Big Wigs  who never run out of ways to make more $$$$$.

Stern  and Brand thought they had come up with a "brilliant" (sic) plan to  better CONTROL young players show them who is BOSS while bringing Big  Time NCAA colleges a NEW windfall of dollars. STOP the very talented  high school players who would qualify easily for the NBA Draft right  out of high school - PREVENT them from doing so with the NEW NBA rule  that any high school graduate must wait ONE year before they qualify  for the NBA Draft.

WHY.  Listen to this Garbage from NBA Commissioner Stern who in effect stated  that by going to college for ONE year first the NBA would be doing a  wonderful thing for the development of these young boys allowing them  to spend a year in college first. RIGHT IF YOU BELIEVE THAT ONE want to  buy this dead horse cheap.....

Of  course the REAL reason was to further enhance the business PARTNERSHIP  between the NBA and the NCAA. The NCAA was increasingly worried if too  many outstanding basketball players went straight to the NBA from high  school their big pot of GOLD was being jeopardized. The BILLION dollar  college basketball industry could see its PROFITS shrink.

Wait  a second aren't we talking about institutions of HIGHER learning here  NOT for profit businesses. RIGHT again how about that dead horse want  it ? Back to reality. Preventing players from going straight into the  NBA would really not cost the NBA anything and they sure were not going  to be crazy enough to make these players wait three or four years like  they do in football.

 But  still the one year ban would make the NBA look good caring about these  young men while really giving a fat GIFT to the top NCAA colleges.  FABULOUS players indeed the best in the Land who previously they never  got their hands on any more. Like LeBron James. They would get them ALL  for a year. Specifically until the college that "recruited" them got as  far as it would in the NCAA Championships in March then that player  would disappear.

In effect it is the BIGGEST SCAM

of all in College Sports

These  young basketball players are students in name only completely. They  have NO interest in a college education. They pay NO attention to  classes or college life they are ONLY there to play basketball for FREE  for a season waiting for the NBA Draft. It should be illegal it is  definitely a VIOLATION of the codes under which colleges and the NCAA  supposedly operate. But since we all know everything is really only  about POWER it doesn't matter of course.

now FINALLY let us introduce

Smart Brandon Jennings who

saw through the SCAM and

realized how to BEAT it

Rather  than playing here for NOTHING as a PHONY college student talented young  Brandon Jennings who might be the best prospect in the nation has  signed with a professional European team for a year in his case in  Italy for a season and will be well PAID for his services. In addition  far better than playing college ball here he will experience  professional basketball and how it operates rather than the pampered  convoluted version in the NCAA. SO HERE S THE DELICIOUS PROBLEM FOR  STERN AND BRAND.

Of  course more and more of these talented young players will finally WAKE  up now that Brandon Jennings hs led the way. Before long expect ALL of  these one year wonders to head to Europe for a season to make some nice  money for themselves, develop their skills better than at a college,  see the world and be part of a professional team BEFORE joining the  NBA.

What a dilemma for Stern and Brand

their scheme has come back to BITE them

WHAT  WILL THEY DO ?? Probably nothing because they can't. REQUIRING that  these high school students must use their year "off" to play for an  NCAA college is so ILLEGAL even the bought and paid for U.S. Federal  Judges all Sports loving college alumni themselves who bend over for  the NCAA and the professional leagues - will still not be able to find  a reason in law why the NBA and NCAA can FORCE young men to play ONE  year of college ball.

In  fact its even WORSE than that for the NBA and NCAA especially the NBA.  With Basketball enjoying so much popularity in Europe some of these  young players will be very tempted to stay there some clubs offering  them HUGE salaries to do so.

Of  course another result will be the NBA teams will have to offer these  players MORE than they would otherwise in many cases to give up  European ball for the National Basketball Association. In fact many of  them will enter the Draft then start a bidding war between the NBA team  and their European team. Undermining the very reason the Draft was  crested to prevent players from playing one NBA team off against  another. Now they can accomplish the same goal playing the NBA team  that drafts them off against the European team they play for.

AND THERE IS MORE

 it just gets better and better and

WORSE for Stern & Brand

Other  high school graduates who might not be of interest to the NBA Draft  right out of high school will increasingly say to themselves WAIT A  MINUTE why am I going to play for FREE for some NCAA college I have no  interest in for 3 or 4 years when I can get PAID to play in Europe, see  a higher quality basketball than in many colleges, and make myself even  more attractive to NBA teams when I do enter the Draft.

SQUIRM David Stern

SQUIRM Myles Brand

it could NOT happen to

two "nicer" (sic) guys

this is something even

the Joker would enjoy

Stern & Brand
" THAT'S RIGHT WE ARE SQUIRMING "



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