While watching the 2008 NBA Draft last week, I could not help myself from drawing a connection between Brady Quinn and Darrell Arthur. Sure, they are not the same color and do not even play the same sport, but both had to go through the agonizing experience of having ESPN cameras flash their lights on the one-time college stand outs who were being passed up for what scouts had called inferior players preceding the draft. In the aftermath of Brady Quinn's fall from being one of the first people chosen in the draft, very few attacked Condon for his performance in the episode. In fact, many were not surprised; Brady Quinn was not a lock to be selected in the top of the first round, and scenarios that included him being selected later than Brady would have liked had been suggested. Quinn suffering had a lot to do with poor planning by those who selected the players chosen to sit in the green room. Can the same be said in the Darrell Arthur ordeal?
Prior to last Thursday, and...
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March 19, 2008
If this is the case his agent should really enter a different field.