Posted by playa2:

Boogieman(knickscity)

Let me tell you a story about a kid from East St. Louis,my hometown named Darius Miles (nick named Dirty Miles cause his clothes were always dirty). He grew up in the worst rat infested projects you could ever imagine. His mom was dirt poor, ill and unemployed. He used to play pickup games in Lincoln Park for money and was for the most part unbeatable, a 6'9" linky kid with pg handles and a 7' footers wingspan and Dunking over everybody!

The catch, he wasn't the smartest kid, couldn't score high enough on his ACT to get into the right college program and believe it or not had nobody to direct him as to what to do.

Darius played at the 7up shoot out, a local tourney in St. Louis and dunked on so many other national top rated college prospects and McDonald all Americans when he was in the 11th grade! He had 47 points and 18 rebs in the championship game.

He was invited to the McDonald game his Senior year and put on another dribbling and dunkfest. He was approached by NBA scouts and it changed his life, his moms life and probably genarations of people in his family. FU*$ck college if you are good enough to make it to the pros.

D.Miles gift is basketball not General Studies which is what alot of NBA bound players major in.

I agree that some kids become better players in college, but if they are hard workers which can not be taught, they can achieve great success and develop in the NBA a la J.O'neal, Tmac, Kobe,Garnett,Mont Ellis Andrew Bynum, Rashard Lewis etc... all players who were raw talent their first couple years in the NBA and went on to be great players.

[Edited by - playa2 on 15-04-2008 12:18]

Posted by subzero0:

Posted by playa2:

Boogieman(knickscity)

Let me tell you a story about a kid from East St. Louis,my hometown named Darius Miles (nick named Dirty Miles cause his clothes were always dirty). He grew up in the worst rat infested projects you could ever imagine. His mom was dirt poor, ill and unemployed. He used to play pickup games in Lincoln Park for money and was for the most part unbeatable, a 6'9" linky kid with pg handles and a 7' footers wingspan and Dunking over everybody!

The catch, he wasn't the smartest kid, couldn't score high enough on his ACT to get into the right college program and believe it or not had nobody to direct him as to what to do.

Darius played at the 7up shoot out, a local tourney in St. Louis and dunked on so many other national top rated college prospects and McDonald all Americans when he was in the 11th grade! He had 47 points and 18 rebs in the championship game.

He was invited to the McDonald game his Senior year and put on another dribbling and dunkfest. He was approached by NBA scouts and it changed his life, his moms life and probably genarations of people in his family. FU*$ck college if you are good enough to make it to the pros.

D.Miles gift is basketball not General Studies which is what alot of NBA bound players major in.

I agree that some kids become better players in college, but if they are hard workers which can not be taught, they can achieve great success and develop in the NBA a la J.O'neal, Tmac, Kobe,Garnett,Mont Ellis Andrew Bynum, Rashard Lewis etc... all players who were raw talent their first couple years in the NBA and went on to be great players.

[Edited by - playa2 on 15-04-2008 12:18]

Yes, this is an excellent view to have... if your sure your never going to get injured.

Posted by Swishfm3:

Posted by TMS:

Miles made a crapload of money & never lived up to his hype... why should any of us have any sympathy when he's probably lounging around on his yacht someplace sipping on crystal & bangin' bball groupies every other night?

definition of a hater

damn right i'm hatin'... the guy gets to bang hot chicks every night & i'm stuck posting on a freakin' Knicks message forum!

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by playa2:

What if he doesn't have the grades, then what.

The ole NCAA will just falsify some grades for him or allow him to take barbecue classes for eligibility. Give me a break!

I think then he does not get a full batchlers degree but somting less.

If he does not have the grades is it still not good to get him away from home, teach him somthing? Remdial work? Life experience? Even barbeque class is better than making 18-30k riding the bus in the D league!

How many kids actually get into the NBA? How many actually get a decent contract when they do?

Are we not taking advantage of some kids now to entice them into riches when it does not exist?

Im not worried about Darius Miles, he is set for life, but there are so many kids that don't make it, and then what? YEah, even if a kid who is a star in highschool goes 4 years to top 40 school and does not star can still get somting out of 4 years. If you gonna dream it up and play video games then thats just a shame. But a kid who realizes the NBA might not happen might engage the mind to achieve somthing.

Posted by ramtour420:

Posted by subzero0:

Posted by playa2:

Boogieman(knickscity)

Let me tell you a story about a kid from East St. Louis,my hometown named Darius Miles (nick named Dirty Miles cause his clothes were always dirty). He grew up in the worst rat infested projects you could ever imagine. His mom was dirt poor, ill and unemployed. He used to play pickup games in Lincoln Park for money and was for the most part unbeatable, a 6'9" linky kid with pg handles and a 7' footers wingspan and Dunking over everybody!

The catch, he wasn't the smartest kid, couldn't score high enough on his ACT to get into the right college program and believe it or not had nobody to direct him as to what to do.

Darius played at the 7up shoot out, a local tourney in St. Louis and dunked on so many other national top rated college prospects and McDonald all Americans when he was in the 11th grade! He had 47 points and 18 rebs in the championship game.

He was invited to the McDonald game his Senior year and put on another dribbling and dunkfest. He was approached by NBA scouts and it changed his life, his moms life and probably genarations of people in his family. FU*$ck college if you are good enough to make it to the pros.

D.Miles gift is basketball not General Studies which is what alot of NBA bound players major in.

I agree that some kids become better players in college, but if they are hard workers which can not be taught, they can achieve great success and develop in the NBA a la J.O'neal, Tmac, Kobe,Garnett,Mont Ellis Andrew Bynum, Rashard Lewis etc... all players who were raw talent their first couple years in the NBA and went on to be great players.

[Edited by - playa2 on 15-04-2008 12:18]

Yes, this is an excellent view to have... if your sure your never going to get injured.

What does the view have to do with being injured? Every NBA career comes to an end. Question is will the person have the smarts/advise to invest the money and live wealthy for the rest of their lives or will it all just go down the toilet in a few years. If you have tens of millions of dollars and a brain guess what? You still don't need no stinkin college degree you can live off of interest which that money will make you for the rest of your life. And if the person can't understand that , my feeling is that they'd fail in college anyway- unless , of course, they major in General Studies, lol, even that might be too much for someone whose academic abilities are just not there.

"What does the view have to do with being injured?" What kind of question is this?? The earlier the player gets injured the less money he has to do something with after his basketball career. Yes all career's end sometime but their is a difference between the amount of money Karl Malone has to fall back on and the amount of money Darius Miles has to fall back on. Not only that but alot of these basketball players use personal financial advisors and dont mind their money. Some financial advisors that pad their own pockets with the players money. So "just living off the interest" is not necessarily the best way to go. Surely you have seen the article that was floating around here some few months ago about this very matter, right?