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05-15-2008, 07:52 PM
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To be fair, now that he has signed with an agent (I assume?) he is free to take whatever gifts he wants, including the car.
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05-16-2008, 12:08 PM
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It is not unusual for a future lottery pick to be driving a new car prior to the draft.......at this point he is borrowing his own money......
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05-18-2008, 06:55 AM
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Baggage carries little weight
Allegations shouldn't hurt Mayo in draft
O.J. Mayo has a sweet jump shot, nice height and size. NBA executives say he's a good kid, too. The Southern Cal star is also a better defender than many give him credit for. And when it's all said and done, that's what the NBA will care about, and not the recent allegations against him.
Despite charges that Mayo violated NCAA rules by accepting cash and gifts, four high-ranking NBA team executives said that won't hurt him in this year's draft.
"The situation that has received so much publicity recently, it's allegations and hasn't been totally proven," said Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace. "Secondly, that is a collegiate issue. It's not one for us in his draft evaluation process to have great concern over."
Another NBA GM with a lottery pick said, "You judge a player on his body of work, his workout."
An NBA assistant GM said, "There might be one or two teams that won't want to be a part of the drama, if you will, and the constant questions of who is around. But from what I hear, he's not a bad kid."
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05-20-2008, 12:32 PM
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NBA union investigating BDA's dealings with Mayo
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Updated: May 20, 2008, 10:12 AM ET
O.J. Mayo is already drawing NBA interest that has nothing to do with his draft lottery status.
The National Basketball Players Association is investigating Bill Duffy Associates Sports Management to see whether the organization gave money to the former USC guard to secure him as a client, Robert Gadson, the union's director of security and agent administration, told ESPN.
The Sports Business Journal first reported the investigation.
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05-21-2008, 12:44 PM
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ESPN - Report: USC to tell NCAA it banned Guillory from getting tickets - Men's College Basketball
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Report: USC to tell NCAA it banned Guillory from getting tickets
USC is planning on telling the NCAA it did not know of any improper activity between O.J. Mayo and an event promoter alleged to have given the basketball player $30,000 in cash and gifts, according to a Los Angeles Daily News report.
School officials said the NCAA might speak with the school this week, according to the report, and USC is preparing its initial defense, including telling the NCAA that it previously had banned the promoter, Rodney Guillory, from receiving tickets to Trojans games.
"Right now, we're just trying to weather the storm," a USC official said in the Daily News report.
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05-22-2008, 06:36 PM
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Mayo leaves Duffy firm; top union lawyer recused from investigation
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Updated: May 22, 2008, 6:16 PM ET
O.J. Mayo will have a new agent after severing ties with Bill Duffy Associates in the wake of an "Outside The Lines" report that Mayo took money from a man who got it from BDA.
The split, first reported by CNBC.com, is immediate. Mayo, under National Basketball Players Association rules, can't hire a new agent for 15 days from the time he files paperwork splitting with BDA.
"Due to the overwhelming intensity of recent allegations regarding the recruitment of O.J. Mayo, we feel that our representation of him is a distraction for he and his family at this time," Calvin Andrews, Mayo's BDA agent, said in a statement released to CNBC.
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05-22-2008, 07:22 PM
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Here's an article that paints it a little more in the light of Mayo firing Andrews rather than a mutual separation of the ways:
Sources: Mayo dumps Duffy - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
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LOS ANGELES ? O.J. Mayo has fired Bill Duffy and Associates and will select a new agent before leaving for the Orlando pre-draft camp next week, multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Calvin Andrews, an agent for BDA, had been in Chicago trying frantically to hold onto his client. Since the agency was the center of an ESPN investigation into possible improprieties in the recruitment of the USC freshman star, a fierce tussle has played out behind the scenes for control of the 20-year-old prodigy?s future.
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It seems to me that if you're under investigation, it may not be the wisest move to take the guys who have the most dirt to spill and take away their reason not to talk.
Then again, the one person least likely to suffer from all this is Mayo, so what does he care? Oh no, don't take away my college eligibility.
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