I was checking the Knicks box score and noticed a DNP for the Spurs

[Bluebeard]

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/2993874/kyle-anderson

Whats the hurry for these kids to get to the NBA?? So after his two years at UCLA, he leaves and sits on the bench. I really don't get it. OK, so MAYBE they get injured in college and can't make the NBA. I think that's very rare. He would have been a senior and probably been a top 5 pick, rather than the 30th pick. He spend last year at times in the development league.

 

[HALL85]

Answer is that he has a $3.4 million guaranteed contract. Maybe he could've gotten more if you stayed, but there is risk to that. 3.4 in the bank. Hard to argue with that.

 

[Halldan1]

Plus it starts his clock running for a second contact and maybe more after that.

A calculated gamble based on what else, money.

 

[hallgrad80]

So many of these kids have no interest in getting a college degree and place little value on a college education and all they want is to play pro ball. It's true in BB , FB and baseball and the first opportunity when they believe they'll be drafted they leave college . It's especially true with BB because of the opportunity to play overseas if they don't make an NBA roster.

 

[Seton75]

Let's be honest. The want to play pro ball. College is a path they have to take. And many take their education seriously. But many dont. That is ok. Lots of plumbers never took western civ and are great plumbers and citizens. It is not ok that colleges let kids whiz thru. But they do cause it means money. The marriage of high money sports and institutes of higher learning never makes sense.

 

[HALL85]

So many of these kids have no interest in getting a college degree and place little value on a college education and all they want is to play pro ball. It's true in BB , FB and baseball and the first opportunity when they believe they'll be drafted they leave college . It's especially true with BB because of the opportunity to play overseas if they don't make an NBA roster.

True, but it goes both ways. Do you really think the colleges (including SHU) that recruit these kids care that they graduate or not?

 

[Piratz]

 

[Seton75]

True, but it goes both ways. Do you really think the colleges (including SHU) that recruit these kids care that they graduate or not?

They would prefer it but not insist on it. This all starts with the incongruity of the marriage of high money sports to education. The kids just do what they have to do. It is all on the colleges; so much for depending, as they say, on the grown up in the room.

 

[NYShoreGuy]

Answer is that he has a $3.4 million guaranteed contract. Maybe he could've gotten more if you stayed, but there is risk to that. 3.4 in the bank. Hard to argue with that.

no state tax in tx too

 

[Bluebeard]

Kids want to PLAY when they are that good. To have $$ is fine, but to be that good and avg 9 minutes a game! The joke is on them. If he stayed 4 years, he would have been a top 5 pick and been a starter on a team rather than riding the pine. Have fun WATCHING the NBA from a great seat, but he ain't playing and THAT's my point.

 

[SnakeTom]

How can you turn down guaranteed money for big bucks when by staying you risk injury or just a bad season that reduces your value. You know the old saying that the first million is the hardest to get. Once you have that in the bank if you play well there will be another big payday ahead but if you don't that cushion looks pretty good if you kept it.

Tom K

 

[urbanecane]

That top 5 pick prediction is nuts. How many seniors go too 5? Frank kaminsky and doug McDermott won national player of the year and still didn't go top 5. Also, let's not act like he's riding the pine for the sixers. Guy is a member of a contending team, learning from popovich at 22-23, and making millions. I'd take that over playing time

 

[Woah Bundy]

Anderson's main problem in San Antonio is that he's a complementary player, not a scorer. His ball sharing is less effective on bench units because bench units are less skilled than starters. Even on a ball movement team like the Spurs they need finishers. He would be better off as a 5th starter on a good team but going through the Spurs system will help him.