A SCOUT'S PERSPECTIVE - OBSERVATIONS & RUMINATIONS

Rebound: Get Yours (The Justin Davis Story) Jason Whitlock is at it again, latest headline article is "Greedy NCAA Still Exploiting Athletes." Whitlock calls on his media brethren to sever ties with the NCAA: "If the NCAA has a co-conspirator in maintaining its unethical and immoral status quo of upholding the amateurism myth for its football and basketball players while everyone else profits, it is the mainstream sports media. We are the volunteer watchdogs committed to making sure none of the billions of dollars generated by NCAA Division I football and basketball reaches the filthy, dishonest hands of the young men who earn it." I'm not going to regurgitate Whitlock's entire article, because my objective in writing this blog is not to debate the finer points of his article, but to highlight a video that was put together by Justin Davis . Justin is an alumnus of Stanford University, where he played basketball from 1999 to 2004. His video enti...

Jason Whitlock is a talent, but his thinking on issues is sometimes flawed and intellectually lazy. Whitlock's "NBA Players Are Wrecking Their League" article best illustrates his flawed thinking. Bill Simmons wrote a contrasting two-part article:  Part 1: "Grading Carmelo and Other NBA Trades" and  Part 2 - "Celtics Will Miss Kendrick Perkins" about the recent transactions/trades in the NBA. Simmons directly challenged Whitlock's point of view, without mentioning his name: "EVERYONE WHO CLAIMS THE NBA IS BEING RUINED BECAUSE SUPERSTARS WANT TO CONTROL WHERE THEY PLAY: D-minus What a lazy argument. Over the past six decades, the following players pushed their way from a worse situation to a (seemingly) better one either by trade or free agency: Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Rick Barry, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Bill Walton, Kevin Garnett, Allen Iverson, Gary Payt...