Carmelo, Juice Deuce, Tim Floyd & Those Laker Tix
by UniversityofSecondChoice on May 11, 2008 7:21 PM PDT
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Had to come back here for after today's big news.
In case any of you missed the full OTL segment on the Juice Deuce, I posted it in the nifty FanShots section.
Wanted to go into it a little deeper though.
In that full segment and her extensive writeup ESPN's Kelly Naqi (who must have gone to a different school of sports journalism from the monkeys who pose as sports reporters in LA) gave us this little detail about OJ2 and BDA:
As Mayo held up different clothing combinations for Guillory's approval, Johnson said Mayo had a plan. Over the next year in a city that is home to the stars, he was going to create the Mayo Brand, and then take his total package to the National Basketball Association. Once he turned pro, Mayo would sign with an agent at Bill Duffy Associates Sports Management (BDA), which represents a number of NBA stars, including Steve Nash, Yao Ming and Carmelo Anthony; and the agent would polish that image.
It didn't occur to me right away. I just realized a little while ago that this is not the first time we are hearing Carmelo's name in a OJ2 story. Remember this from the LA Times back in January ?:
USC freshman guard O.J. Mayo may have violated NCAA rules by accepting complimentary tickets from Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony to Monday's Lakers-Nuggets game at Staples Center.
Although USC compliance officials could not be reached for comment, NCAA bylaw 16.11.2.2.3 states that student-athletes may not receive "free or reduced-cost admission to professional athletics contests from professional sports organizations, unless such services also are available to the student body in general."
It was not immediately clear if the NCAA would consider Anthony an agent of the Nuggets or merely an individual who gave tickets to a friend.
The tickets Mayo received were located behind courtside seats near mid-court and had a face value of $230 each.
A compliance director from another West Coast school said that although he did not have all the details, Mayo's actions could constitute a secondary violation and that the NCAA could order Mayo to donate the value of the tickets to charity.
Nothing came out of that story as Tim Floyd was super duper quick to take the fall :
Southern California coach Tim Floyd has taken the blame for a possible NCAA rules violation by freshman standout O.J. Mayo.
Mayo accepted free tickets to Monday night's game between Denver and the Los Angeles Lakers from Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony, and attended after telling his coach of the situation.
"O.J. asked me if he could go to the game," Floyd said before the Trojans left for a two-game road trip that began Thursday night at Oregon State. "I asked him where he was getting the ticket, and he said, `Carmelo.' I said, `How long have you known him?' He said `Since seventh grade.' I said, `Sure, he's a friend."
Mayo, averaging a team-leading 19.7 points, told reporters Tuesday he had received the tickets, which were located behind courtside seats near midcourt at Staples Center and had a face value of $230 each.
"It's a secondary violation. It's one of ignorance on my part if it was a mistake," Floyd said. "I'll take the responsibility because I told the kid he could go to the game. I assumed he could go to the game. If they want to suspend me for a game, suspend me for a game, but not the kid. He did the right thing."
May be someone should probe deeper into that story again?
I don't know. I think Tim has few more questions to answer from that story. Don't you?
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Great catch
Someone should be emailing this to Kelli Naqi and see if she has more followup on it. Well done.
I just finished reading that piece
And I missed it. I agree with Nestor that someone should be emailing Kelli Naqi to see how deep this goes.
Naaahh, this isn't the NFL
This is the NBA we’re talking here. Character issues are no big deal. Remember Chris Webber was the number 1 pick by Golden State back in ‘93, and we all know what went down in Michigan.
by godblesstyus95 on May 12, 2008 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
it's deeper than that for sure.
How does he live large his frosh year? Look at his clothes…his diamond studs.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/ncaa/05/11/usc.mayo.ap/index.html
NCAA will do nothing.
Floyd et al
will have to profess an absolutely astounding level of complete ignorance to avoid being found complicit in all of this. That will be fun to watch.
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Or infuriating
While we all realizes that no one is that stupid, especially not an organization with a history of similar actions, the fishwrap will eat it up and that will play in the national media. The last story we will read about this is how clueless USC was and how upset they are now that this went on during their watch. It will also include some BS that the SC PR people wrote about getting to the bottom of this issue to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Of course, they might have Rodney Guillory dictating the report as he leads them to more recruits.
Kelly Naqi did a chat on ESPN.com today
and someone asked her about the connection:
gary (boston): kelly, i was surprised that no where in the story there was never the connection drawn between the lakers tickets carmelo anthony, who is also a BDA client, gave to OJ earlier this year…your thoughts?
SportsNation Kelly Naqi: We looked into that. In fact, according to Johnson, that story was exactly as it appeared. Johnson said Mayo did meet Carmelo at a club the previous night and Carmelo left the tickets for him. They were friends and Johnson doesn’t know definitively how they met. But Alisha Mayo, OJ’s mother, told me she had to write a check for those tickets and jokingly said to me later, that Carmelo one day better pay her back.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on May 12, 2008 12:37 PM PDT reply actions
As Predicted,
The picture of Floyd = a bumbling Mr McGoo fool…
Magoo’s inability to distinguish between his nephew, wearing a raccoon coat, and a wild bear, combined with his pig-headed refusal to consider the possibility that his sight might be failing, made a big hit with audiences.
At what point does DeRozan start getting worried about his choice of schools?
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Schools?
The correct phrase is ”... his choice of teams?”
That's true of course, I quite see that, but dear me!
(That’s a line from the Mikado. My efforts at higher musical education within the BN will never cease.)
And I, For One
am deeply grateful for that. Mikado is a favorite of mine, mostly because of my dear mother and her phonograph.
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One of my favorite lines
is from one of the three little maids from school. She is pointing out to Yum-Yum that her husband is to be beheaded in a month, and she adds, ”... which is, in its way, a drawback.”
I wonder if the charitable organization
.... was the National Sickel Cell one that issued Rodney the credit card. I’m half joking… but seriously… was it?
Agreed.
And absolutely disgusting that they would sham or shell a charitable organization, I assume, in order to avoid paying taxes.
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I think there is an earlier story
about how Floyd changed his story. the first version was that Floyd didn’t know about it, then decided later that he did. Does anyone else recall this?>
"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"
by silverlakebruin on May 14, 2008 3:18 PM PDT reply actions
At first he said he knew nothing about it
Then the next day he claimed Mayo had told him about it in advance and he had approved it.
by SuperBruinMan on May 15, 2008 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Carmelo's "a friend"
Yeah, I’m sure a friendship with Carmelo Anthony is available to the typical “student.” So what if their relationship began in 7th grade for OJ2. Wasn’t that at the same time OJ2 became a budding star and Carmelo signed his contract with BDA?
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