I was about to hit the sack on Sat night and the Lenny Cooke documentary came on, so of course I stayed up til 3am watching it.
People always label him as a "cautionary tale" but I'm unclear as to what the cautionary tale really was with that kid. It seems like despite his talent, he was a born loser destined for failure no matter what he did. The piece does a poor job of explaining why he was staying with that white woman in Old Tappan when his real family was down in VA....and why he was suddenly ruled ineligible to play his Sr year. Didn't someone miscalculate somewhere along the way? It's not like his 19th birthday just came out of nowhere.
I don't understand where he fell apart. If the geeks at ABCD had him as #3 behind LeBron and Melo, why didn't he just go play somewhere in Europe for a year or at some Juco? Bryce Harper did it, Brandon Jennings did it.
The NBA will take a risk on ANYONE. Seems like there was something way more going on there.
People always label him as a "cautionary tale" but I'm unclear as to what the cautionary tale really was with that kid. It seems like despite his talent, he was a born loser destined for failure no matter what he did. The piece does a poor job of explaining why he was staying with that white woman in Old Tappan when his real family was down in VA....and why he was suddenly ruled ineligible to play his Sr year. Didn't someone miscalculate somewhere along the way? It's not like his 19th birthday just came out of nowhere.
I don't understand where he fell apart. If the geeks at ABCD had him as #3 behind LeBron and Melo, why didn't he just go play somewhere in Europe for a year or at some Juco? Bryce Harper did it, Brandon Jennings did it.
The NBA will take a risk on ANYONE. Seems like there was something way more going on there.