Nik Stauskas May Or May Not Enter Draft Comment Count

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NEWS

Michigan sophomore Nik Stauskas is headed to the NBA, a source close to the situation told ESPN.com on Thursday.

Well dangit

Mississauga, ON’s Nik Stauskas will enter the 2014 NBA draft and choose Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports to represent him reliable sources have told Hoops Hype Canada.

Dangit again

I'M GETTING MY HOPES UP

Actually that seems like a bad idea

Well this was pointless

Can we at least get some recriminations

allllllll right

Comments

Marley Nowell

April 10th, 2014 at 11:26 AM ^

This was a good way to bring some levity to the situation.  Maybe all this BS will covince Nik he doesn't want to be an adult quite yet.  Good luck to him whatever he decides.

Mr. Yost

April 10th, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^

FUCK ESPN.

They're E! and TMZ with a sports slant.

Literally I could walk into their headquarters in Bristol and say "LeBron James is retiring after this year to focus on acting"

ESPN would break into coverage of the Master's and everything else with breaking news from this "source."

"Sources say" is bullshit...anyone can say anything and everyone on earth is a source.

Sources say doesn't make the source correct. But because it's a story like this, where it's VERY likely to end up being true...they get away with it.

DOUBLE BIRDS ESPN! DOUBLE BIRDS...AND some MGoSpluge all over you.

 

samsoccer7

April 10th, 2014 at 12:14 PM ^

Nerd alert, nerd alert:  This looks like a solid play.  I have some old 0 mana cast creatures that would help a black/red deck immensely.  I kinda miss Magic from my high school days (yes, high school).  I spent so much time and effort putting together a great deck then we basically all stopped playing.  Sad.

west2

April 10th, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^

might be telling would be the likely teams that would draft him this year and whether he wants to live there, and how deep the draft is in his position this year vs next. Other players that would be on the team that might draft him could be important too. Any info on some this stuff?

BlueCube

April 10th, 2014 at 12:46 PM ^

and say Nik Stauskas told ESPN.com and denied he had decided. Then they copyied his tweet into the story which would indicate that his contact with ESPN was a tweet he sent to everyone.

Link.

 

In related news, MLive received a text from Nik saying he hasn't decided and an announcement will be coming sometime after this weekend.

Link

 

I've read many tweets and comments from other "journalists" criticizing ESPN on this one.

StraightDave

April 10th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^

I wonder if Nik is doing the hat thing when announcing his decision - one hat on the table with an NBA logo on it and another with UM.

legalblue

April 10th, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^

Is anyone here really under the impression that this is going to be a tough choice for the young man?  I'd love to see him platy another here, but I have absolutely no belief that this will happen.  He should find out how high a lottery pick he's going to be, hire an agent, and get paid.  Reporting that he's going to the NBA is essentially the same as saying fire is hot, water is wet, and the sun made it's traditional daily appearance. 

Gobgoblue

April 10th, 2014 at 1:43 PM ^

People are fooling themselves. "well, how deep is the draft, which teams like him, maybe he wants to go to BTB moar!"

All of these are homer rationalizations and naive.  If the Pelicans want to pay him millions of dollars to play basketball, uh, he's going to do it.

Thanks for the great contributions to Michigan, Nik!  You will be missed.

JCV16

April 10th, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^

I like his work but his draft reporting seems pretty sketchy. He also reported that burke was going to leave after frosh year. I think he just takes a guy most believe will go and makes up a report that sources have told him he's gone. He ends up looking right and looking like he has inside info 90% of the time. Man's gotta eat i suppose.

Eskabeaner

April 10th, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^

So that fans will stop following you in their car while you walk down state street, begging you to stay from their passenger window... Yeah, just saw this actually happen. Sounds like a bad TLC song...

AlwaysBlue

April 10th, 2014 at 1:45 PM ^

shocked if he stayed. His dad's comments and these rumors aren't untrue they are just outside of the process that I believe JB advocates.

Speaking of Beilein, I thought he had the best comment yesterday. He said you should go the NBA because you are ready, not because it's a dream or because of a draft projection. Hard to argue when you see the number of players who both don't have much of a career and are all but bankrupt after a few years.

DowntownLJB

April 10th, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^

perhaps he got wind of "buzz" of a departure announcement coming from UM today...

it was easier to assume that a prospective announcement would be about Nik, so they ran with the "probable" Michigan bball departure story...

only to have the surprise twist be the Jon Horford story...

Shakey Jake

April 10th, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^

It is not true as of this moment but will most likely be true after this weekend. I hope he makes it rain 3s in the pros and proves to be the next big Canadian superstar in the NBA.