Reading a recent article at Ka Leo O I am doumbfounded by the "rookie training camp" described here:
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MIAMI — A group of attractive women, dressed to be noticed, stake out a hotel lobby in search of NBA rookies. It happens most every year, right about this time.
The newest NBA millionaires gather in late September for a mandatory six-day rookie orientation program. The seminar was in Tarrytown, N.Y. No cell phones or pagers were allowed. No leaving the hotel. The rookies — including schoolboy legend LeBron James — were tutored by the league on everything from table manners to gambling to AIDS to violence against women. This particular year, as NBA star Kobe Bryant faces sexual-assault charges, the lessons seemed especially urgent.
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Full story is here.
For any NBA officials who might happen to be reading, let me give you some free advice: if you're recruiting people who do not know that pretty girls entrap rich men on a fairly regular basis and have done so for the last, say, 6,000 years minimum; or who are so far down the evolutionary chain that they need coaching on basic table manners, an impressive vertical jump may well not be worth the investment due to corollary risk.
In an aside, when did it become the NBA's problem that some NBA players are heathens anyway? Is it up to General Motors to make sure that their hundreds of thousands of employees do not get into brawls at tittie bars and so forth?
Phaedrus
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MIAMI — A group of attractive women, dressed to be noticed, stake out a hotel lobby in search of NBA rookies. It happens most every year, right about this time.
The newest NBA millionaires gather in late September for a mandatory six-day rookie orientation program. The seminar was in Tarrytown, N.Y. No cell phones or pagers were allowed. No leaving the hotel. The rookies — including schoolboy legend LeBron James — were tutored by the league on everything from table manners to gambling to AIDS to violence against women. This particular year, as NBA star Kobe Bryant faces sexual-assault charges, the lessons seemed especially urgent.
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(emphasis added)
Full story is here.
For any NBA officials who might happen to be reading, let me give you some free advice: if you're recruiting people who do not know that pretty girls entrap rich men on a fairly regular basis and have done so for the last, say, 6,000 years minimum; or who are so far down the evolutionary chain that they need coaching on basic table manners, an impressive vertical jump may well not be worth the investment due to corollary risk.
In an aside, when did it become the NBA's problem that some NBA players are heathens anyway? Is it up to General Motors to make sure that their hundreds of thousands of employees do not get into brawls at tittie bars and so forth?
Phaedrus
