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Where did you find that quote, btw, I didn't see it anywhere

Yahoo sports-

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns

If what you say is true, that's some shady journalism by Mr. Rick Freeman.

...man did they take those quotes out of context...here's his full interview (video) and you can see the questions in context:

http://iptv.nyknicks.com/nyknicks/launc ... 78&catid=4

C.lupus wrote:Devilz, you may be right about him opting out after his rookie deal but can't we say the same thing about every one of them? There is no guarantee from any of them. He will have four years or so to decide what he wants to do. If we are contending by then (I hope we will be) and Taylor coughs up the cash, he may very well want to stay. If not, he's good trade bait.

He went to USC simply because it's in a big city, and he wanted to be THE MAN. If winning a championship was at all important to him, then there's many more schools that would've made sense. If a championship could even come close to competing with his desire for being an international figure, then he would've gone to UCLA, a much better team. But then he'd have to compete for face time with Love and Westbrook and Collins. His 2 goals were getting into a school in a nice big city, and being the unquestioned #1 guy on the team.

Now he's chosen Lebron James' agent of all people - Lebron; ie Mayo's blueprint for his own NBA career, ie the guy who people are assuming will leave his home-town team of all places, simply because it isn't big market, and hook up w/ Jay Z in Brooklyn, or the Knicks.

So you've got Mayo, eagerly lapping up the hype since grade school, picked his college based on big market appeal, picked his agent based on big market marketing skills, but yet he doesn't mind playing his career in Minnesota....I'm sorry, there's just no way. If he can't get into Miami, then NY and LAC are both perfect because he'd be the man and he'd be in the right market. In MN he has to compete for being the franchise face, and he's in a small market. He's gonna be pissed if we take him, it seems obvious to me.

It's not who he gets drafted by, it's who he signs with when his rookie deal is up. That's what he is telling teams he isn't working out for. This dude is a business. He has been for years. He will not mess up his rep by refusing to play somewhere. But I would bet it all that in his first restricted year he's trying to work a deal to get to a major market.

It isn't about not wanting to mess up his rep that will make him turn up to play with whoever drafts him ,it is the reality that if he doesn't he isn't playing in the league for the next 3 years minimum if he can't force a trade.

As to if he will leave after his rookie deal that is a long way away ,by that time he could be slipping a ring on his finger as the Wolves start their dynastic domination of the NBA for the next decade worry about that when it comes closer.