"Find the verb."
The verb is BALL!
Posted on 07/21/2018 3:09:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
Full title: LaVar Ball: 'If you want to be a professional athlete, you don't need to spend 50 percent of your time in class'
Now, the idea behind his league is solid. It provides his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo — and countless others — an opportunity to play competitive basketball outside of the NCAA while they make a push to play professionally. It also offers athletes a chance to make money while doing it.
Except in a recent interview with SBNation’s Ricky O’Donnell, LaVar gave a weird piece of advice: One doesn’t need an education if they want to be a professional athlete.
“If you want to be a professional athlete, you don’t need to spend 50 percent of your time in class, which you’re not gonna use anyway, and 50 percent trying to play ball,” LaVar told SBNation. “Now you can be 100 percent in. If you really that guy, this is the way to go. If you’re only going be in college for a semester anyway, if you really that guy.”
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Why is anyone shelling out their hard earned money to watch these freeloaders play ball?
” ‘If you want to be a pro athlete, you don’t need to spend 50% of your time in class’”
You do if you want to have better money management skills than Mike Tyson.
Magic Johnson I think.
“If you want to be a pro athlete, you don’t need to spend 50% of your time in class’”
Correction:
If you signed a contract, where given a multi-million dollar, non-refundable, no questions asked signing bonus, and the check cleared, then yes, you really don’t have to go to class.
Magic was and still is a Laker! He never went elsewhere
Yo What if you really not dat n###a an’ spend 100 percent playing ball an’ 0 percent getting an education? what the #### sup now?
Hell, you don’t even need to know how to read.
What happened to Lithuania?
kobe and shaq had regular issues and Kobe when when Shaq went to Miami.
Magic and Kobe not at odds and two different generations.
"Find the verb."
The verb is BALL!
Oh, got it.
I guess he uneducated then.
Yes....thank you!
And if that doesn’t work out for you you can always go work a low wage job...
I thought I made a mistake last year, but I was wrong. Best wishes.
The Evelyn Woodhead sped riddin’ course!
Duke and Kentucky operate a basketball camp under the umbrella of a university.
Create a league around 18 to 21 year olds. At 21 if they are not drafted they can go to college.
Oooo! That’s gotta hurt. First game in the NBA and your knees shot for life. No more athletics ever young man. But at least you have that education to fall back on....oh...nvm.
And remember you heard it here first, on Roller Derby.
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