1. How does his young age play negatively? Do you see teams going after 22 year old college seniors because they're older and have played longer? I get the sense of what you're trying to say here, but it's not his age but lack of playing time/experience. As long as he has the ability, who cares how young he is?grindhouse wrote:
2. I don't know why you're coughing like Kanter did something immoral or taboo. Kanter's ban was purely a technical point that because he had been paid more than the minimum living expenses back when he was playing for a professional club, he was considered a professional player and ineligible for the NCAA. It was different from the majority of cases where a player accepted money to play for a certain school or to provide an NBA team some kind of advantage over another. Would you make as big a stink had he made the money mowing lawns all year at age 16? It was a job, and he was paid for it, and unfortunately it was basketball-related so it made him a professional.
3. I think you're old enough to know the difference between rumor and fact, right? I'm not saying he definitely doesn't have knee issues, but instead of relying on "whispers" like some high schooler listening to Monday morning rumors about who put what in whose hooha over the weekend, why don't we just wait for when the draft prospects go through their medical checkups.
4. You must be an unusually sensitive individual to care so much about such potential conflicts. There's a big difference between not wanting a player (i.e. Beasley) because he's a nut case, and not wanting a player because he might not end up best friends with our myriad of non-franchise players.
We're not getting upset at you, just rolling our eyes because you take one piece of information and completely blow it out of proportion. It's no different from if I inferred from your parents not being 100% happy their entire lives, that it was because you were a mistake. See what I mean about blowing things out of proportion? The only concern we have is with our losing culture. As long as Kanter is a hard worker, who gives a rat ass about anything else?
Really? You must not have seen much. In fact, what bad luck have we really had? Bosh getting his face broken. Reggie getting injured both years. Davis getting injured before the season. What else? TJ Ford and the other Bosh injuries don't count. It's not so much bad luck as much as it is the players themselves. Heck, Milwaukee has it even worse if you consider that they constantly lose Bogut to injury, and Redd hasn't been the same since his injury. Or if you want real bad luck, how about Portland losing their intended new franchise player (Oden) for the entire first season, as well as much of the following seasons, then finding out their new franchise player (Roy) no longer has cartilage in his knees? Or even worse, look at the Clippers' history, and I don't mean just the last couple seasons. If you've ever heard about the Clipper's curse, it's because their injury history makes a very strong case for there being a curse. I think most people were betting on Griffin getting injured as a result, and look, he was out for a year! The Raptors' injuries only seem like a big deal to you because you're not following all the other teams.
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