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Anthony Lee going to Ohio State. That is absolutely huge for OSU. They badly need someone else who could score for next season.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) Oh, s***ty Sixers. I'm hoping they lose out just because I think it would be awesome to see a team have a 36 game losing streak to end a season.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 11:31 AM) Michigan is going to lose tonight. I say this based only on the fact that they're -2.5 and it looks like a gift from God. Vegas knows something that we don't to have an 11 seed only +2.5 against a 2 seed. Dayton is +10.5 against Florida, for example. Tennessee is statistically a better team than Michigan. Dayton is by far and away the worst team left in the tournament.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) Verlander and Cabrera will cost them 60 million per year. For two players. Wow. I mean who wouldn't want to pay a 35 year old Miguel Cabrera and a 35 year old Justin Verlander a combined 60 million in 2018? That is just good business.

Terrible move by the Tigers. I like it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 05:01 PM) It's sad when a movie released in 1990 looked better/more realistic than a pile of crap that will be released in 2014. Bring me zombie Jim Henson. This is a guaranteed pile of garbage. As soon as they announced the director this movie was guaranteed to be terrible.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) Hopefully the director was able to tune Bay out and make it how he wanted Have you looked at what the director has directed previously? I can't believe I'm saying this but that would probably be a bad thing.

AJ Hammons going pro. Purdue may be the 2nd worst team in the Big 10 next year ahead of only Rutgers.

TMNT trailer is predictably awful.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) Let me apply my surprised face Did you see the play? There shouldn't be any further action taken against LeBron.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 09:31 PM) stephenson gets ejected lolol A bit weak there but just such a stupid move by him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:37 PM) Rather than adding another rule to safeguard NBA owners from running their franchise into the ground, as a fan I'd prefer Adam Silver take on the derelict, terrible owners out of the league. Maybe if more teams were run like San Antonio we wouldn't think there was a talent drop off. No league has more rules to prevent owner incompetence than the NBA, and the number of incompetent owners just seems way way too high. Yep, there are no quality of play issues in the Western Conference. They only exist in the East where you have a number of teams that have gutted their rosters on purpose to tank or have zero idea how to run a franchise (I'm looking at you Michael Jordan). Add in key injuries to two of the 4 East teams with legit talent (Chicago and Brooklyn) and you have a disaster of a conference.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) Yes. Lots of busts. Can someone please explain what the downside is for the NBA here? No downside other than keeping stud talents like LeBron or Durant out of the league for a year for no reason and there is limited to no upside to doing this. It basically just f***s the players without really providing a real benefit to the NBA.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:08 PM) Meh, he was a top 5 pick and he never even scratched the surface of his potential. I'll call him a bust and I don't really care how much he made. Congrats to him though. I mean I guess we could have taken guys like: Marcus Fizer, Mike Dunleavy, Drew Gooden, Stromile Swift, Shelden Williams, Thabeet, Morrison, Wesley Johnson, Tyrus Thomas, Evan Turner, Derrick Williams, and Thomas Robinson (don't care that he is only in his second year). And that doesn't even include really mediocre players like Jeff Green and Raymond Felton who all were in college for at least 2 years and were drafted in the top 5 since just 2000.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) Just off the top of my head: Kwame Brown, Darius Miles, Eddy Curry, Martell Webster, Sebastian Telfair, Shaun Livingston... Eddy Curry made 70 million dollars and had a year in the NBA where he averaged 19.5 points per game while shooting 58% from the field. If you are including him as a bust than I can make an absolutely absurd list of juniors and seniors who were taken in the top 10 who had way worse careers. He was lazy but that wouldn't have changed at all had he gone to DePaul for a year or 2 and dominated crappy competition based on being bigger and stronger than everyone.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) The history of the guys drafted out of high school aren't that bad. Here's a list of every player drafted out of high school. The vast majority of the drafted high schoolers stuck in the NBA. I only see 8 guys out of 42 that haven't stuck around longer than 4 years. That's a pretty damn good rate. And you have very few busts in comparison to where they were taken and who went after them either. The 2001 draft gave the straight to NBA kids a bad rap and it isn't like the non-European draft picks set the world on fire that year.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:32 PM) Do you really want to go through all the highly drafted high schoolers? Those guys you mentioned aren't all that common. Wade was in college for 3 years (played 2). Hinrich and Collison were both pegged fine. Go for it. The high school kids had a very high success rate in comparison to where they were taken.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) No. You weed out more guys who might be drafted because POTENTIAL, but with another year you can better identify that potential is never going to become ability. Another year in college probably sorts out more of those kind of guys. Eh. Most guys are just never going to be good enough. If you take out the guy drafted on "potential" you replace him with a guy who doesn't have the tools necessary to be a good/great NBA player anyways. There are only a certain amount of guys with the elite talent needed to be stars in the league and just looking at drafts on year to year basis demonstrates that giving teams more years to evaluate players doesn't really help them with talent evaluations.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) Well this is incredibly relevant to the discussion then http://deadspin.com/marcus-smart-did-the-r...t-go-1546498463 I'm shocked (he says as sarcastically as possible). It has always been laughable to me that people think kids improve more at the college level than at the NBA level. The only reason to stay in school is to raise your stock because from a basketball improvement and financial standpoint staying in school is stupid.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:01 PM) It looks like Adam Silver wants to raise the age limit to 20. Smart call. The NBA product is pretty awful right now. Lol. This will do nothing to help the NBA product and the product in the Western Conference is just fine. The East is a joke because you have a few teams tanking for picks and some horribly run franchises. If there is a problem in the NBA it certainly isn't because kids are only staying one year in college. This rule basically f***s over kids and doesn't do anything positive. I guess it makes it slightly less likely NBA teams blow an eval but the NBA is driven by elite talent and that is cyclical and teams blow plenty of talent evaluations even when they've seen a guy for multiple years (Evan Turner?, Emeka Okafor?, Olowokandi? I could go on forever). There are plenty of drafts in the 80s and 90s where teams were drafting juniors and seniors and those drafts sucked because they didn't have enough talent.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:33 AM) That ANYTHING can happen, and probably will. The Kentucky kids (especially Randle) will continue to get their showcase. Early's stock definitely is on the rise. Ennis, not so much. It might hurt Wiggins a BIT, because he has the reputation for disappearing already...but that won't discourage someone from taking him. He's not nearly as consistent as Parker, who reminds me of Carmelo Anthony a bit. McDermott will be another of those controversial selections like Fredette who will polarize a fanbase...unless he's marketed correctly. And everyone will get to see a lot more of the talent on Arizona and UCLA on a national basis. UVA too. It's easy to keep forgetting they were a number one seed. It depends on where McDermott gets selected. I can't imagine any fanbase being upset by getting him if he is taken in the teens. Higher than that I could see people being upset though.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 10:42 AM) I'm a Michigan fan and I'm still not totally sold on Bielien. Not a fan of some of his rotations. If he takes this team to the F4, than I fully be on board. I have trouble forgiving him for the Zack Novak playing despite being awful. Thad's done so much with so little sometimes and is great but still should've won national title with Conley and Oden. Meh, they lost to the Florida team with Noah, Horford, and Brewer. Just a bad year to have a truly great team.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) He's gone. Russell, KBD, and Kam Williams will be counted on to score a lot next season. Russell is super legit. Next two classes are a welcome reset. I'd be shocked if Bates-Diop is an impact player next year. He didn't dominate mediocre at best competition this season. Really talented kid but he isn't going to impact games scoring as a freshman.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 01:31 PM) That's why i said fitting end. Happy and sad to see him go. Ready to turn the page on these classes. If Ross leaves OSU will have a ton of trouble scoring again next year but then they should be back to being really good the following year when the 2014 kids become sophomores if Matta brings in a solid 2015 class.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 01:24 PM) Craft mugged. No call. Fitting end for this team. Happy to never watch them again. He drove directly into 3 guys while completely out of control. You are never getting that call.