Ladies and gentlemen. The University of Arizona announced today that it's best player this year has declared for the NBA Draft. The thing is that he will go, and in the top 10 as a lottery pick. Here's my thoughts.
The NBA teaches college basketball players how to sell out on their college teams. Besides the rare Carmello Anthony case, if the team they decided to play college for doesn't win a national championship the first season they play, they just go to the NBA. Bayless, Durant, Oden, most likely Love, and the list goes on. I find this absolutely ridiculous. The only bad thing about the NBA is they over pay their players and turn them into money hungry players who now taint the beauty (don't laugh) of the game. Basketball is no longer a sport. I just declared it. We (and by we I mean owners), just throw money at these guys. So, in Bayless' case, he says, do I try and play college again? Or sign a contract that guarantees me a $1 million signing bonus? Hmm?? Stupidest thing out there. The NBA should only be allowed to give players $40-50 thousand a years to guys right out of college. That's plenty. I could go for days on how overpaid basketball players are. So I'll just stop there.
A guy who won't be entering the draft and also won't be playing in the national championship game is Tyler Hansborough. Tough luck, but my hat still goes off to the kid. Kansas stomped on UNC and Memphis man-handled the Bruins out of UCLA. There was talk that this is the worst tournament in terms of games, because SO many games have been decided by more than 20 points or thereabouts. Not many buzzer beaters, not much excitement. Just angry fans who are yelling at the TV for their team to clear a 19-point deficit in 1:20. My bracket got busted by the cops and taken to jail for life. North Carolina and UCLA will play in an imaginary game on Monday night before the championship game starts. UCLA wins so that my bracket stays intact. Not many people thought this was the way it would end, but it should still be a great game nonetheless. My prediction: Memphis beats Kansas 81-75. What's yours?
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What a lame final four! I'm not a huge fan of the outcome but hopefully it will be a good final on Monday. Are you going to read the new book that Conseco came out with? Get your game face ready for this week cause "Boom goes the dynamite" (our official team name.) is going to show the residents of Alameda how to play real softball.
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