POB traded to Toronto

[tornado]

Flipping through an old media guide, it looks like it's happened with only one other set of players...

it almost happened in Utah, as Mitchell Anderson left just a couple years before Jim Les played for the Jazz.....but
here's an oddity....

Mitchell Anderson played on the Utah Jazz roster, right alongside Jeff Wilkins (father of future Bradley Brave & present BU commit John Wilkins) from 1983 through 1985!

[houstontxbrave]

You mean, more than zero playing time?
Maybe...but probably not enough of an increase for anyone outside of this board to notice.

I hope a move to Toronto helps OBryant. But when a guy is this young and teams give up on him twice within his first 3 years in the League, there is an issue.

[BradleyBrave]

POB can come back to Peoria and open up a restaurant and be the lead chef.

[houstontxbrave]

POB can come back to Peoria and open up a restaurant and be the lead chef.

Maybe he needs to try out for Top Chef. I have a feeling his money has kept motivation for much, way down on his lists of important things to do before he dies.

[Beninator]

POB can come back to Peoria and open up a restaurant and be the lead chef.

Well there are a lot of good restaurants in Toronto......

[real fan]

This certainly proves he was not ready to play in the NBA when he was drafted and appears that he is no closer to getting many minutes now, kind of wonder if he would have done things differently now and stayed at BU rather then leave early because of the money. I still believe he would have gotten the money anyway and been more prepared to play at that level.

[leebiddlecome]

This certainly proves he was not ready to play in the NBA when he was drafted and appears that he is no closer to getting many minutes now, kind of wonder if he would have done things differently now and stayed at BU rather then leave early because of the money. I still believe he would have gotten the money anyway and been more prepared to play at that level.

I disagree wholeheartedly. He made the smartest move of his life. The longer you stay in college the more you are exposed. And, sadly, the powers that be look for flaws and things you CANT do as opposed to things you can. The same things that plague POB know would have plagued him for two more years at BU.

If you can't get better with the amount of time NBA teams put towards player-development then you aren't going to get better spending that same amount of time in the college game or in the MVC.

[real fan]

Taking the money was smart but you only get better by playing in games against competition and he has not done much of that plus we were working with him individually a lot more then what any of these teams are doing with him now.

[leebiddlecome]

Taking the money was smart but you only get better by playing in games against competition and he has not done much of that plus we were working with him individually a lot more then what any of these teams are doing with him now.

I guess I disagree. You get better working on your game individually and against guys in 2 on 2, 3 on 3 type settings. Individual workouts make you a better player. You get to test that in competition.

POB had better competition every day in practice with the Warriors and Celtics than he would have had playing against Evansville and Drake.

[Braves4Life]

I disagree wholeheartedly. He made the smartest move of his life. The longer you stay in college the more you are exposed. And, sadly, the powers that be look for flaws and things you CANT do as opposed to things you can. The same things that plague POB know would have plagued him for two more years at BU.

If you can't get better with the amount of time NBA teams put towards player-development then you aren't going to get better spending that same amount of time in the college game or in the MVC.

I agree with everything you have said.... Great points!

[TheAsianSensation]

POB was #9 in the draft and came out the year before the new NBA rule about being 1 year removed from high school. Big men were going to be out in droves the next year.

Financially, he had to do it.

[BradleyBrave]

Anyone who says he made a mistake has no sense of reality.

[SFP]

POB did what was in his best interest. Last I heard he was making a pretty penny. Do I wish he would have stayed? Absolutley, but did he make the right desision based on financial consideration, again absolutely. If somone believes that there are other considerations that need to be taken into the equation well that's your issue not POB's.

[dogsrus]

This certainly proves he was not ready to play in the NBA when he was drafted and appears that he is no closer to getting many minutes now, kind of wonder if he would have done things differently now and stayed at BU rather then leave early because of the money. I still believe he would have gotten the money anyway and been more prepared to play at that level.

I don't think there was ever much doubt that he wasn't NBA ready....but he did the correct thing. We can play the what if hindsight game with MANY issues and you may well be correct that staying two years MIGHT have gotten him more NBA ready...who knows.


BUT we could be sitting here after him playing two more years at BU with him suffering a career ending injury having a totally different conversation about WHY didn't he leave when his stock was so high.

[Out of Balance]

BU or Take The Money, BU or Take The Money. BU or Take The Money

TAKE THE MONEY

ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK

NO BRAINIER

One for someone. How many years does he have to have before he is locked in for a pension