Ant

My Dad hated all of his kids. I do stuff with research. I do stuff with sneakers. Sometimes they both intersect. #GT51

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

As Mid-Majors continue to sell us that the power 5 schools are stealing or attempting to steal all of their players.

Data shows us that 60% of transfers were down transfers. (With 46% of those transfers being out of Division 1 entirely)

And only 9% were up-transfers.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

Hooping like Steve Francis is crazy

[Chris Godfrey @CoachChrisG_WBB]

Dylan Harper and Jalen Brunson don’t hoop like second generation NBA guys.

Both them dudes hoop like they got full Pell in college.

Energy and urgency like they gotta go back to the trenches if basketball doesn’t work out.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

Will Anderson is 24. Also, if you are 25 playing in college you likely aren’t thought of as that good. When talking about elites.

[Clint Lamb @ClintRLamb]

“We had 50 players in the draft this year that were over 25-years-old competing against 17 and 18-year-olds...” - Nick Saban

Why’s that important? Well… here’s Will Anderson Jr. at 17-18 years old (left) versus Will Anderson Jr. at 25 years old (right) 😂

[Fitz @FitzGSN_]

Jalen Brunson

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

….. https://t.co/uzOtiKG9Qa

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Knicks fans are insane 😭😭😭

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

My Mayor Muslim.
My bagels Jewish.
My Christian Dior.
Knicks in four.

This is a crazy line they are screaming out.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

Cleveland?

[Brian Morrissey @bmorrissey]

New York is a terrible sports town. Too many transplants, too much going on, too much money. The best sports towns are downtrodden post-industrial cities with chips on their shoulders, shitty weather and provincial streaks.

[Devin Walker @Devin_Walker2]

*ball comes off rim*

josh hart:

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Steveozuck @PabloTorre It’s funny. We don’t think less of him or anyone in his family. Donte is dope

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Bamalover18 @JaxsonDimes @44sunwolf @wthomassports Players would like to sign contracts. The NCAA/Schools are fighting in court against it. Johnson v. NCAA.

So we go back to the point that the schools don’t want this.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Bamalover18 @JaxsonDimes @44sunwolf @wthomassports The NCAA is just an org the money passes through, the Governance committee which enforces and makes new rules is done by school presidents and athletic directors.

For all realistic purposes the schools are the NCAA. Much like the NFL teams are the NFL.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Bamalover18 @44sunwolf @wthomassports @JaxsonDimes Signing the players to employment contracts would stop this if the schools really wanted to.

They don’t want that.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Bamalover18 @44sunwolf @wthomassports @JaxsonDimes Scholarships are hard to hold up as contracts. So attempting to stop players/students from going to other schools is how we got Ohio vs. NCAA where 10 states sued the NCAA.

And all transfer restrictions went away as the transfer rules were agreed upon as too restrictive.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Bamalover18 @44sunwolf @wthomassports @JaxsonDimes It’s very hard legally to stop students from going to a new school.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@VolGov53 @DamenClegg Worth mentioning that the NCAA testified in court that none of this is pay.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@twizms @SarksDaddy That would be a large adjustment to keep both of these players happy who do their best work with the ball in their hands.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@twizms @SarksDaddy A player who is best when they have the ball in their hands adjusting to less touches can be successful, but at no point in her career has the adjustment needed to be made for her to have less touches.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@twizms @SarksDaddy I don’t know that taking the ball out of Paige’s hands helps that team more.

But in theory it might have worked.

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@LM4risktaker @JTreallyhim @breannadache If anything Gen Z is the most sober generation ever and night life isn’t really being sustained by them. https://t.co/wDXbOcaj9V

[Ant @CheckAnfro]

@Romudeth Is this a 2 Americas situation?