NBA suspends Mayo's former agent for violations

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Well while not an admission of guilt it's getting pretty clear that Mayo did what Louis Johnson said he did. The NBA Players union today suspended agent Calvin andrews for one year for rules violations committed while "recruiting" OJ Mayo.

Pretty obvious they're talking about payments to Mayo that Johnson exposed.
 

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Trying to comprehend this one. Nail the agent , protect the player? How is one less or more guilty than the other? It is the same infraction and requires 2 people to make it happen.

It would seem to me that the " player " will seek out the agent with the best payoff.
 
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Trying to comprehend this one. Nail the agent , protect the player? How is one less or more guilty than the other? It is the same infraction and requires 2 people to make it happen.

It would seem to me that the " player " will seek out the agent with the best payoff.

It's because Mayo did all this before he belonged to the NBA players union so they can't pass any rule that impacts him. But they can pass a rule that prevents agents from paying players when they're amateurs and that's why they suspended Andrews, he violated the rule.

In this case I believe Andrews and BDA are just the one that got caught it's been widely reported that numerous agents were competing for Mayo when he was still in HS so it's highly improbable he only took money from one IMHO.

This is why I scoff when people say the rules are unfair to the kid anyways so who cares if they cheat. Mayo is a multi millionaire who just used some of his first NBA contract to move his mom and brother Todd(a HS SG) to Memphis to live with him, he has an endorsement deal, and he's doing what he's aways wanted to do, play basketball for a living. Meanwhile his former agent is suspended for a year, and his former school faces and NCAA investigation and probable probation. There's absolutely no loss here for Mayo IMHO, yeah he's less marketable than he was but not much, a lot of kids think its cool he took money.

They have to make the punishment severe enough for teh school and agent that they will think twice about doing it because the kid right now faces very little downside to taking money if like Mayo they're good enough to turn pro right away.
 

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Try black listing cheaters from becoming a member of the NBA players union. That might have an effect. The Players union is hypocritical on this issue. Just grab the dues.
 
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Try black listing cheaters from becoming a member of the NBA players union. That might have an effect. The Players union is hypocritical on this issue. Just grab the dues.

Would be an interesting test of anti trust laws and such could a league ban a player who'd never actually been in that league? They can for drug use and things like that but only if you did it while in the league.

It would be an interesting move but I think we all realzie that Mayo is good enough that some NBA team was going to pick him even if the NBA had tried to send a message to future kids by making an example of Mayo.

And the reality is that while Mayo did it earlier and longer than most he's far from the only kid who took money before he got to the NBA so the NBA would be a bit hyprocritical to blacklist him while making LeBron James the posterboy for the entire league(got caught taking things twice while in HS).
 

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