Mayo will play for any team

[DG4L]

Sounds like the rumors of him only wanting to play in a big market are BS.

"The most important thing is accomplishing my dream, and my dream is to play in the NBA," he said. "Anywhere I get picked I am going to be more than happy to play and perform to the best of my abilities. It's an opportunity. There are a million kids who would love to be in my shoes to get an opportunity to play in the NBA. It's a worldwide game, and the NBA is the best league in basketball. It's just a dream."

[prefuse73]

I was just coming to post that. It was a quote from his workout with the Knicks. Anything that makes it unclear which direction we go with our pick is a good thing.

[Devilzsidewalk]

I'm sure he wants to play in a big market, but he's smart enough to realize if he tries to force the issue on it, its only going to hurt his marketing image.

OJ would take it like a man and play out his rookie contract

[mayorhoiberg]

draft him.

[4ho5ive]

Im sure once we draft him, the fact that we could potentially offer him more money than anyone else would trump any big market "endorsement" crap, especially with how successful I think we will be compared to big market teams.

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

Taylors definately not afraid to shell out cash to players.

Right KG?

[karch34]

Hopefully this ends all the he won't play for us crap.

[MN Die Hard]

I was just coming to post that. It was a quote from his workout with the Knicks. Anything that makes it unclear which direction we go with our pick is a good thing.

Wow the fact that he said after his NY workout is even more telling IMO. Cynics cant claim he just said it in Memphis or MN to appease the small market team he was working out for.

[Krapinsky]

but then there was this quote---

[Devilzsidewalk]

but then there was this quote---

[Krapinsky]

Ah... I apologize. He could have just as easily said-

[C.lupus]

He just got his fruit mixed up, no biggy. He meant to say "It's the Big Cherry, it's the Mecca"




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.

[big3_8_19_21]

but then there was this quote---

[big3_8_19_21]

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

[Krapinsky]

Yahoo sports-

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

[Krapinsky]

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

[big3_8_19_21]

...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

[Devilzsidewalk]

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.

[buzzbomb]

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.

[andyhop]

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.