Game #58: Milwaukee Bucks 122 - Toronto Raptors 119

[The Great One]

Took the day off today because of the freakin snowstorm here in Van. I can finally watch a full Raps game.

[Mitch P]

Yeah really curious how, if those weren't set up in some sort of gray area, a paper trail was left. Seems an obvious thing to avoid.

An appropriate time for another NCAA rant:

The top 10 college coaches get paid $3-7million per year each.

The 2017 March Madness tournament generated $1 billion in revenue for the NCAA (just the tournament!).

But the athletes this is all built on can't get paid. Can't even get a loan, evidently.

That whole system, with that amount of $$$ floating around and with no leverage for the guys actually generating it, is just begging for corruption. There will always be shady dealings in the NCAA.

NCAA Div 1 athletes are very obviously professionals. The amount of practice time, travel time, training time and money spent on the promotion of the games is all similar to that of any pro league. The players get very little actually; especially as so many of them never graduate. Even in Canada with our very "minor league" CIS it takes remarkable intelligence, self discipline or both for a student to play on a varsity basketball, football or hockey team. In Canada the difference I guess is that the players are still held to the same academic standards as other students (for the most part). Sports should not actually be part of schools except at the intramural/recreational level.

[KeonClark]

Case in point.

You listen here, 2nd best keon *shakes fist*

[3inthekeon]

I mean what else needs to be said...people talk too much these days

Case in point.

[KeonClark]

Reporter: How was your All-Star break? @OAnunoby: Good. pic.twitter.com/z1hcE2eVD2

— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) February 23, 2018

I mean what else needs to be said...people talk too much these days

[JimiCliff]

Reporter: How was your All-Star break? @OAnunoby: Good. pic.twitter.com/z1hcE2eVD2

— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) February 23, 2018

It's pretty funny that the Raptors' own twitter is constantly trolling OG.

[rocwell]

Reporter: How was your All-Star break? @OAnunoby: Good. pic.twitter.com/z1hcE2eVD2

— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) February 23, 2018

[rocwell]

Good for Fred. Screw the NCAA and their B. S. system.

Screw agents too. They are targeting 8th graders and their parents.

[3inthekeon]

Fred Van Vleet too. He took $1k loan from an agent in college.

Good for Fred. Screw the NCAA and their B. S. system.

[S.R.]

Loans are designed so that you don't have the income ie you're not a professional yet.
You's think those would be done in cash, from a 3rd party (not the agent) with no paperwork lol

Yeah really curious how, if those weren't set up in some sort of gray area, a paper trail was left. Seems an obvious thing to avoid.

An appropriate time for another NCAA rant:

The top 10 college coaches get paid $3-7million per year each.

The 2017 March Madness tournament generated $1 billion in revenue for the NCAA (just the tournament!).

But the athletes this is all built on can't get paid. Can't even get a loan, evidently.

That whole system, with that amount of $$$ floating around and with no leverage for the guys actually generating it, is just begging for corruption. There will always be shady dealings in the NCAA.

[G__Deane]

Loans are designed so that you don't have the income ie you're not a professional yet.
You's think those would be done in cash, from a 3rd party (not the agent) with no paperwork lol

[rocwell]

So what does this mean for these two?

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Nothing. It's up to the NCAA enforcement office to handle those violations. Criminal case documents are sealed atm.

[Machine]

Fred Van Vleet too. He took $1k loan from an agent in college.

So what does this mean for these two?

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[rocwell]

White man can stretch?

reach*

[golden]

White man can stretch?

lol. JV breaking that color barrier, but nobody touches Kevin McHale @ 8ft or more .... WTF?