Originally Posted by
johnb
Of course he'll be in NO.
Having said that, the Pelicans were on national tv 7 times last year, with the other 75 games telecast on Fox Sports New Orleans.*
Duke was on national tv 75 times last year, each week.**
If the NCAA met in an emergency meeting, vigorously debated the pro's and con's with an eye towards what is good for the players*** and voted to let any NCAA athlete sign individual advertising deals,****
and Zion was told by Nike that he'd get his own shoe and $40 million for 2 years, guaranteed, regardless of whether he played for Duke or the Penguins,*****
and he got similar deals from Pepsodent, Muscle Milk, the Comedy Channel, and Perkins Library,******
I see no reason for them not to squeeze the lad into next year's line up. Of course he'd have to earn his minutes like everyone else.
*There's 2 minutes of research time that I'll never get back.
**an estimate
***I also believe in the tooth fairy
****this could be called anything, but I might suggest the Zion rule
*****They'd do it
******Perkins hasn't previously sponsored athletes, as far as I know, but this could be the chance.