Whose name will get butchered the worst by the fanbase (aka the Caffaro-Kihei award)?
- Martin Carrere
- Thijs De Ridder
- Johann Grünloh
- Ugonna Onyenso
- Other (comment your vote)
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So does this confirm he’s officially NCAA approved as well? I know he signed with UVA and we’re moving forward business as usual but so far seems like he’s in the same boat as Enes Kanter where he’s signed and on the roster but still needs NCAA to give the all clear.
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Piggybacking on this, any proof of life for either De Ridder or Grünloh? Need to know celebrity lookalikes, stat.
He was in some practice pic from last week, will edit the post with it if I find it
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in pronunciation-Carrere. When even your head coach doesn’t try, there’s no hope.
in spelling-Grünloh. There will be lots of Johans
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And he’s had Carrere at practice for a year! My Carrere reasoning is that it’s going to look to most people like a name they can take a crack at, so they will be overconfidently wrong. And they’ll get “Martin” wrong too. Whereas people just won’t say “Thijs” and the umlaut in Grünloh will signal them to try hard at pronouncing.
French “R’s” are difficult to say for us Americans. R is rolled on the back of your tongue. Now that I’ve mastered it, I can’t do the Spanish “R.” That’s rolled on the tip of your tongue.
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I don’t roll R’s. It’s un-American.
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Good feet store guy had a photo of Grünloh on his twitter account from a practice he went to
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Thanks!
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Officially official:
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And we’re all good on the visa situation as well too?
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If the Euros adapt quickly, this team has a very high ceiling.
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I’d have to imagine that goes hand-in-hand with this but any insight on that @HoozGotNext or anyone else?
Big enough deal (or slow enough news cycle) that we got a Norlander tweet about it:
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Sweet - that source is 4/4 this offseason so far - had told me it was 2 years for him
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So there’s no rule preventing an NBA team from signing De Ridder mid-season. Now, in reality it won’t happen unless there’s a magical overnight transformation into prime Andrei Kirilenko, but there have been cases of a guy going to college after not being drafted and then leaving mid-season.
“The most recent case was 2007, when Randolph Morris played his junior year at Kentucky after he went unchosen in the 2005 NBA Draft, went back to school for two seasons (Morris had not signed with an agent) and signed with the New York Knicks in March.”
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Wouldn’t this sort of thing be addressed in the contract which goes with the NIL agreement? Presumably, if a school is paying a player $2 mil (or, arranging for him to be paid that sum), wouldn’t there be a clause(s) establishing exclusivity as well as “buy-outs”? I can’t imagine anyone is going to be paying anyone large sums of money unconditionally.
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@4547Lambeth and I have already discussed this (or something similar) but I think it would depend on whether the $$ is old school NIL or new school rev share.
I think there’s a fair argument that buyouts on old school NIL would violate the rule that payouts had to be final by July 1. Creative lawyers could make arguments to the contrary, especially if you pay those creative lawyers large fees.
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