This is not what Maurice Clarett did at all. He tried to force his way into the draft a year early.

Couldn’t this be extended to beyond bowl games? I mean what’s to stop a top sophomore from just sitting out his whole junior year? Or skipping the non-conference fluff games? I wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing those things happen more often. And I hope that they do.

But it also says that they couldn’t find any trade partners, right? They wanted to keep moving down but couldn’t.

In a small way, the 49ers lucked out big time, right? They don’t really come off as smart from this, because they traded down with the assumption that they were downgrading from Solomon Thomas to Rueben Foster...if the Bears weren’t idiots, San Fran would have taken Foster 3rd (according to their draft board). That…

Diehard hockey guy here, somehow have never seen this. Unbelievable. Thank you for sharing.

I’m surprised, General Mattis, that you’re a Deadspin reader.

Well my original point was about LaVar’s behavior. I don’t give a damn about disrupting the sneaker business or if he has a point: it’s not his point to make, especially when he has to use his child as the vehicle to make it. He hasn’t accomplished anything, and piggy-backing off your child’s accomplishment to push…

Those were all pretty good comebacks! But I’m only talking about shoe brands. Warner Bros is irrelevant to this discussion. LeBron “owns” shit because he is LeBron, the greatest athlete of a generation, not because he is some brand-disruption guru. And he’s a talented guy in general and is doing it all on his own, not…

Well if his dream is to be in control of his own shit, then he’s REALLY fucked.

Uh, no they wouldn’t? And if they would, they too would be assholes robbing their children of the opportunity.

LaVar wasn’t an ex NBA player. Or a professional basketball player of any type. He played on the practice squad of an NFL team for like two days. So, that’s wrong.

I don’t mean for the money, obviously. And I don’t mean that this is going to “break him”, not sure where you got that from. I mean because when you’re a high school basketball player, signing that big shoe deal is the coolest and biggest accomplishment outside of actually being drafted to the league. And literally…

All I can think to myself is how incredibly excited Lonzo would be to sign a shoe deal with Nike or Adidas. That’s every young basketball player’s dream.

This has been the stupidest top 10 of all time. Holy shit.

His career point total: 0.84 points per game, as I keep saying.

If you can’t, then don’t make the trade. It’s not exactly rocket science that Larsson is really bad value for Hall. That’s about as hard consensus of an opinion as it gets.

...he had 80 points in 75 games at 22! He averages 0.84 points per game for his career, while playing on bad teams. He has incredible advanced stats. I don’t know how else to say that. You can’t just look at season-long goal totals and draw conclusions about a player.

I don’t have a record of elite prospects around the NHL who were being shopped a year ago. But when you’re dangling out a guy like Hall, I’d think you could get someone to bite.

League sure was a lot different in the heyday of Stevens and Niedermayer.

Draisatl is fine??? He’s 21 and was 8th in the league in scoring. He’s a whole lot better than fine.