Alex Poythress=Dumb nikka

[mastermind]

You mean lost money to blow through

How far do you think those rookie deals last. You think college players ultimate goal is to make it to the league just to off that rookie deal? After their agent and IRS get their cut how much do you think is left over? When they wash out and stuck playing in China or Spain then what?

type utter nonsense and hit "post reply," crehs

 

[MikelArteta]

If your drafted in the first round your guaranteed at least at bare minimum just under 3 mill in guaranteed money

Poythress off hype would have gone in the first round and would have had at bare minimum made 3 mkll already. Even if he was ass another team would give him a chance

Now looks like China euro league lr d league

 

[MikelArteta]

The 30th pixk in the NBA draft makes 950k and the contract first three years are guaranteed

You mean lost money to blow through

How far do you think those rookie deals last. You think college players ultimate goal is to make it to the league just to off that rookie deal? After their agent and IRS get their cut how much do you think is left over? When they wash out and stuck playing in China or Spain then what?

 

[trick]

If your drafted in the first round your guaranteed at least at bare minimum just under 3 mill in guaranteed money

Poythress off hype would have gone in the first round and would have had at bare minimum made 3 mkll already. Even if he was ass another team would give him a chance

Now looks like China euro league lr d league

Euroleague's not even that easy, teams cut guys in a week or two if they don't produce. China rarely works out long-term unless you're a guard. D League pays peanuts obviously. Poythress really should've left his freshman year.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The 30th pixk in the NBA draft makes 950k and the contract first three years are guaranteed

Really a whole 3 years.

Subtract 40% in taxes. Then another 10% in agent fees. NBA players look forward to the contract AFTER their first deal, not just because of the money but because they can say they truly made it.

 

[MikelArteta]

:sadpoythress:

Euroleague's not even that easy, teams cut guys in a week or two if they don't produce. China rarely works out long-term unless you're a guard. D League pays peanuts obviously. Poythress really should've left his freshman year.

 

[MikelArteta]

I said 3 years are guaranteed doesn't mean it's the end of your career.agents don't take 10% more like 2-3

950k
Second year around 960 third year around 980

Even after fees and taxes still in 3 years like 1.7 mill and your still 21/22

Really a whole 3 years.

Subtract 40% in taxes. Then another 10% in agent fees. NBA players look forward to the contract AFTER their first deal, not just because of the money but because they can say they truly made it.

 

[Basaglia]

Dunno if he was guaranteed lottery, but he was easily gonna be a first round pick.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I said 3 years are guaranteed doesn't mean it's the end of your career.agents don't take 10% more like 2-3

950k
Second year around 960 third year around 980

Even after fees and taxes still in 3 years like 1.7 mill and your still 21/22

Expenses go up. He gonna slurge, buy a house... have a house note, pay taxes. By cars and jewelry. By the time that first deal is up, he'll be sitting on 500k MAYBE.

At the end of the day, it don't matter where you get picked if you're good enough to stick around and have longevity.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Dunno if he was guaranteed lottery, but he was easily gonna be a first round pick.

HE still might be This draft class is teddy tuxpin soft.

Either way, if he goes in the second round or doesn't get drafted that's what he deserves. Teams pick one and done players based on potential. MKG should've been picked in the 2nd round but went 2nd overall and the Bobcats got screwed. I don't want my team fukking up a lottery pick just so that player can get money

 

[Malta]

HE still might be This draft class is teddy tuxpin soft.

Either way, if he goes in the second round or doesn't get drafted that's what he deserves. Teams pick one and done players based on potential. MKG should've been picked in the 2nd round but went 2nd overall and the Bobcats got screwed. I don't want my team fukking up a lottery pick just so that player can get money

You don't know what you're talking about, the 2nd pick may have been high for MKG but saying he should have gone 2nd round is ridiculous, he was a top 10 talent no matter how you slice it.

Alex is ranked as the 89th player in the top 100 prospects, he's most likely going to be undrafted. Meanwhile, a guy like Bruno Caboclo who plays for @Reinscarf's Raptors is guaranteed to make another $6 million before his contract is up, and he was the 20th pick. If you're not a lottery pick and you're guaranteed to be taken in the first round you go, you don't look back, the longer you're in school the longer scouts will break down your game and find reasons not to like you.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

You don't know what you're talking about, the 2nd pick may have been high for MKG but saying he should have gone 2nd round is ridiculous, he was a top 10 talent no matter how you slice it.

Alex is ranked as the 89th player in the top 100 prospects, he's most likely going to be undrafted. Meanwhile, a guy like Bruno Caboclo who plays for @Reinscarf's Raptors is guaranteed to make another $6 million before his contract is up, and he was the 20th pick. If you're not a lottery pick and you're guaranteed to be taken in the first round you go, you don't look back, the longer you're in school the longer scouts will break down your game and find reasons not to like you.

And I guess Hasheem Thabeet was top 2 talent right
Kwame Brown

NBA scounts and GM's don't know everything. Dirk got traded to the Mavericks for Robert Traylor
Kobe got traded for Vladi Divac

MKG got drafted for the same reasons Anthony Davis did. They were both young and could still be refined. Upperclassmen in college are viewed as having peaked, which is dumb because Tim Duncan was a senior.

This logic is why the NBA is trash right now. Players make the jump because they feel they have to and don't bother to refine their games in college, even when they're not ready. You can't knock Poythress for saying if he felt he wasn't ready for NBA life and the pressures that go along with it. I think his biggest mistake was going to Kentucky. Each new freshman class took minutes away from him. He never really got a chance to develop his game playing for that school. If you go to Kentucky in this day and age, you should never stay more than 1 year because you will surely get overshadowed, which puts added pressure on a player to enter the draft even when they're not ready.

 

[Malta]

And I guess Hasheem Thabeet was top 2 talent right
Kwame Brown

NBA scounts and GM's don't know everything. Dirk got traded to the Mavericks for Robert Traylor
Kobe got traded for Vladi Divac

MKG got drafted for the same reasons Anthony Davis did. They were both young and could still be refined. Upperclassmen in college are viewed as having peaked, which is dumb because Tim Duncan was a senior.

This logic is why the NBA is trash right now. Players make the jump because they feel they have to and don't bother to refine their games in college, even when they're not ready. You can't knock Poythress for saying if he felt he wasn't ready for NBA life and the pressures that go along with it. I think his biggest mistake was going to Kentucky. Each new freshman class took minutes away from him. He never really got a chance to develop his game playing for that school. If you go to Kentucky in this day and age, you should never stay more than 1 year because you will surely get overshadowed, which puts added pressure on a player to enter the draft even when they're not ready.

Your point doesn't really make sense, why mention Dirk and Kobe when both dudes were traded for known commodities? Dirk was the potential pick that you're bashing, while Traylor was the 3 year player, Kobe the potential pick traded for a Vet, those moves are based around your rationale of not valuing potential. You would have traded Kobe and Dirk, because you're clearly talking about how overvalued potential is I bet you had Thomas Robinson pegged as a star over Andre Drummond too.

Scouts don't know everything, but Alex isn't great at any one thing and he's not some athletic freak of nature that you could try to mold into a 3 & D guy. You named 1 senior in the last 20 years and MKG is a very good talent that should have been drafted in the top 10, I don't think you understand just how rare it is for defensive specialists like him to come along, let alone for them to be the youngest dude in their drafts.

Poythress made the wrong decision and it came back to bite him in the ass, he would have been drafted had he come out after his first year, and maybe he'd be a better player as a result who knows, but in the end staying absolutely hurt him. He was never going to be a high lottery pick, so he should have left having the chance to be a first rounder. The NBA is fine right now, what do you want it to do, go back to the isolation era? How is it "trash" when teams are playing more team ball now than they have in the last 20 years

 

[Heelmatic]

Hes going to be a poor mans MKG in the league and put up poor mans MKG stats at best. He wanted to win a title though. He still gonna get money be it in the NBA or overseas. He leaving with his health and that's all that matters.

And the HArrison twins left early and one of them didn't get drafted, so going to the NBA was never a lock. Furthermore how many of those first round one and done players from Kentucky are really balling besides Towns and Davis

Cousins, Wall, Bledsoe, MKG & Knight seem to be doing alright for themselves

 

[NatiboyB]

nikka would've been a lottery pick if he came out his freshman year.



One of the biggest "L" in recent basketball history.

thats why when i hear people talking about Skal Should go back to school to improve his game I'm like when you can be a 1st rd pick you go point blank.....