Big Payoff (Why these 'One & Done' cats are ALWAYS ready for the NBA)

In my Harlem Nights voice, "Weady? S*** yeah! I'm Weady!"

Williams James, the famous philosopher and psychologist, once said, “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” Mark Twain gave it to us like this, “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Then the big homie, Robert Frost, the famous poet, settled the argument with, “Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”

Well playas...he must have been talkin' to all of these clowns on TV tellin' the world that some of these “One and Done” cats aren’t ready to go to the NBA. Every time I look up some former player or some clown on the radio or TV is sayin' that these cats aren’t ready and then fools that can’t think for themselves agree with him.

First of all, if the freakin’ NBA is gonna draft them in the first round then they’re READY! If they meet the criteria to be ranked in the top 30 players (1^st round) in the world then they’re ready. Stop with all of this foolishness and lyin’ to folks bruh. The question is; are they willin' to enter the draft? Who cares if the kid is gonna be a perennial superstar or not! If the freakin' GM is gonna pay him then he's ready!!!!

Duns act like that in order to get drafted you’ve got to be an impact or franchise player. That’s ignorant! Not everybody drafted in the first round is goin' to be a superstar. There are only 12 All-Stars in the East and 12 in the West and there is a reason for that pimpin’. Everybody can’t be LeBron, Kobe, KD, CP3 or Melo etc.!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Somebody has to be a role player. Somebody has to be a sixth man and so on and so forth. There are duns that have played their entire careers in the league and have never even started a game before. So you're tellin' me that they aren’t ready to play in the NBA? They're ready if they make a roster.

Here’s my “non-thinkin' for himself” sports fan screamin’ at the top of his lungs, “Jay you sound like a fool! Every cat that is a Top 10 pick should be a franchise player or at the very least and solid impact player!” Oh really? Sit down and let me take you to school real quick pimpin'!

There are gangs of cats that have been drafted in the Top 10 that played for years and never became a "franchise" player. Were they not ready? And most of the cats I'm talkin' about weren't even 'One & Done' players. Let’s start with Rex Chapman drafted No. 8 overall in ’88 and played for 12 years. I could go back further but why? Then there’s Pervis Ellison in ’89 that went No. 1 overall that turned out to be trash but played for 11 years. Who remembers Danny Ferry in ’89 that went No.2 overall and was boo-boo but played 14 years? Then there's Shawn Bradley in ’93 that went No. 2 and played 12 years. Do I need to go on playa? What does ready really mean? Ready means that some GM thought that they were good enough for him to pay!

Since you don’t believe that fat meat is greasy I'll give you more. Donyell Marshall went No.5 played 15 years, Glenn “Big Dawg” Robinson my homeboy went No.1 played 11 years, Darius Miles went No. 3 played 9 years, Bobby Hurley went No. 7 played 5 years, Shawn Livingston went No. 4 played 9 years, Johnathan Bender went No. 5 played 11 years until his knees gave him the shaft. Don't let me EVER forget Kwami "freakin'" Brown who went No.1 overall and played 12 years in the league.

Then there are duns like Corey Brewer that went No.7 in ’07 and Michael Beasley in ’08 that went No. 2 that didn't become what boyz thought they would. Now all of these guys were drafted in the Top 10 and weren't "One & Done's" but they played for several years. So you're tellin' me that a cat that is offered a job at 18 or 19 years old with the same guaranteed bread is supposed to leave it on the table because you said so? A lottery pick is lookin' at 3 years and darn near $10 million in guaranteed bread!!! Well...the first two are guaranteed and the 3rd year is a team option. Either way you sound like a fool.

So don’t tell me that in order to be considered “ready” you gotta be a franchise player because none of the duns I just named were. Glenn may be the closest to becomin' one but he never really turned the corner either.

Y’all get caught up in listenin' to some fool that used to play instead of pullin' up the facts. Just because a boy is a Hall of Famer doesn’t mean that he’s a student of the game and knows the history of it. It just means that he could play. Facts are facts playboy and you don’t have to be a Hall of Famer to know them.

Keep this in mind too, the very cats that are sayin' that boyz should stay in school got rich playin' basketball in the NBA! How much hypocrisy can you stomach before you call it BS bruh?

Now if boyz we're sayin' that cats like Jahlil Okefor, Trey Lyles, Justise Winslow and Karl-Anthony Towns aren’t ready to be superstars right now I’d agree. But to say that they aren’t READY to play in the NBA is asinine! Because if they aren’t then who is? There are cats in the league right now that they are better than. So don't tell me that they aren't ready.

They’re goin' to hold the draft in June regardless. So if the scouts tell them that they’re goin' to be Top 10 or at the very least first round draft picks you sound like a fool tellin' them that they aren’t ready.

Let me put it where the goats can get it pimpin'! “YOU ARE ALWAYS WORTH WHAT SOMEBODY IS WILLIN' TO PAY YOU!” So for the clowns tellin' these kids that they need to stay in school another year stop talkin' to hear yourself talk. You’re speakin' purely from a fan's perspective or some academic perspective and guess what pimpin’, the player cares nothin' about how you feel about them. That’s not their concern. He’s takin' the job that’s bein' offered to him and you would too. So stop makin' a fool of yourself even repeatin' that foolishness.

The only reason that I've got a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Science from Indiana University is because I didn't possess the DNA to make millions of dollars between the ages of 18 and 22 years old. Some folks don't need to go to college playa! Those that have a talent that 99 percent of the rest of us don't have are just fine without wastin' time in college. Chris Rock told jokes, Beyonce could sing, Jay-Z rapped, Mark Zukerberg invented Facebook, Bill Gates came up with Microsoft and now all the suckas that needed to get a degree work for them.

These young 'One & Done' cats are for lack of a better term "Idiot Savants" of basketball! They are genius' that somebody is goin' to pay a boat load of money to come out of school early. Think about this playa! If you did an internship at Microsoft and Bill and Co. offered you a 3 year deal worth a guaranteed $10 million would you drop out of school and take the job? If the answer is yes, shut up talkin' about these 'One & Done' cats.
 
He's never gonna make that type of bread in his lifetime with or without a freakin' degree! You sound like a fool sayin' otherwise! And please don't tell me that the reason why these duns go broke is because they didn't finish school. I know more folks with college degrees with bad credit than the law allows.

For every broke hooper, I can show you 1000 cats with a degree livin' pay check to pay check or worse. Stop it, you sound ignorant. So young fella, I say take the guaranteed bread and tell these haters to kick rocks. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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