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The Basketball Hall of Fame will be hosting the Hoop Hall Classic tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but the headline star is in some trouble.
O.J. Mayo, the top recruited player in the Class of 2007, was ejected from his last game after receiving two, count'em two, technical fouls. By high school rules, this would require Mayo to sit out for the following two games, thus not playing Tuesday night at Cameron.
Mayo has already started soaking up the rays of fame and special treatment. Announced earlier today, a Cabell County judge has granted a temporary injunction for O.J. Mayo and FIVE other Huntington players. This injunction allows all of the players to participate in the Hoop Hall Classic tonight.
You cannot convince me that the Hall of Fame folks didn't have some pull in this decision. After all, Mayo was the headliner for the classic, and if Huntington lost five other players, that would significantly decrease the competition level. It's unfair to the rest of the high school basketball world.
You be the judge. If a Wake County player was given two technical fouls for "hot dogging" after a dunk, would he get off that easily? No.
Why start giving Mayo the special treatment now? Isn't it better that we teach Mayo a lesson in high school before he gets to college? This is exactly why the NBA requires that players be out of high school for at least on year, thus playing in college. The extra year allows them the opportunity to mature, to grow up, to learn that they are just normal people.
This is a real great judicial system we have when judges allow high school basketball players that have displayed misconduct to forget the rules and do what they want to do.
The Basketball Hall of Fame will be hosting the Hoop Hall Classic tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but the headline star is in some trouble.
O.J. Mayo, the top recruited player in the Class of 2007, was ejected from his last game after receiving two, count'em two, technical fouls. By high school rules, this would require Mayo to sit out for the following two games, thus not playing Tuesday night at Cameron.
Mayo has already started soaking up the rays of fame and special treatment. Announced earlier today, a Cabell County judge has granted a temporary injunction for O.J. Mayo and FIVE other Huntington players. This injunction allows all of the players to participate in the Hoop Hall Classic tonight.
You cannot convince me that the Hall of Fame folks didn't have some pull in this decision. After all, Mayo was the headliner for the classic, and if Huntington lost five other players, that would significantly decrease the competition level. It's unfair to the rest of the high school basketball world.
You be the judge. If a Wake County player was given two technical fouls for "hot dogging" after a dunk, would he get off that easily? No.
Why start giving Mayo the special treatment now? Isn't it better that we teach Mayo a lesson in high school before he gets to college? This is exactly why the NBA requires that players be out of high school for at least on year, thus playing in college. The extra year allows them the opportunity to mature, to grow up, to learn that they are just normal people.
This is a real great judicial system we have when judges allow high school basketball players that have displayed misconduct to forget the rules and do what they want to do.
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I feel that this was done in a effort to have Capitol High the ability to keep up or hang in with what I see as a awesome Huntington High team.
One other note of interest is that the ref "Lazo" resides in the Charleston area near where Capital High School is located. He probably has relatives who attend this high school.
January 31, 2007 11:07 p.m.
January 30, 2007 11:13 p.m.
January 30, 2007 10:54 p.m.
January 30, 2007 8:09 p.m.
He then was shoved by a Capital player, while walking past him at half-court; before being hit with his second technical.
Ironically, Huntington (a team not known for foul trouble) was called for 44 on that evening. They had five players suspended. And Charleston Capital players received no technicals or penalties.
Funny how special treatment works.
January 30, 2007 3:57 p.m.
It is clear from reading four different news accounts of the game, then reading the court filings on WSAZ TV's website, that the official had decided to target Mayo even before the game began. He had decided to make an example of this young man and to put him "in his place."
He told the coach before the game that he wasn't going to put up with Mayo. Then, when Mayo was encouraging his teammates to play defense while at the foul line, the official provoked him, tell him to shut his mouth or he would throw him out of the game.
January 30, 2007 3:54 p.m.