http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/05/13/short-and-sweet-2-the-oj-edition/ A blog for sports agents: Discussing sports business news, Sports Law, and other interesting sports related material Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:16:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/05/13/short-and-sweet-2-the-oj-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-74587 Austin Walton Tue, 13 May 2008 18:14:05 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=1196#comment-74587 I still like OJ and I think he is a great basketball player. I hope he has a great career in the NBA. I don't fault OJ for any of this because I have plenty of friends in college athletics that came up the same way OJ did and when presented with gifts from damn near anybody they would take it. I would too. Especially if I was under 20 years old like OJ is. And you made a valid point about Louis Johnson being convicted of selling coke, but he does have reciepts and he was in the inner circle. He wanted a piece of the pie like everyone else and then he got cut out, so now he is snitching. That's what happens. So I'm sure he holds some knowledge and truth. However, the problem isn't OJ accepting gifts, its the people that are offering it to him. People in his inner circle should have his best interest at heart, not be doing things that they know could negatively affect OJ. They shouldn't have had any part of it. Let the money come from a booster, but instead they were in it to get paid off of OJ too just like everyone else. That's the problem. I still like OJ and I think he is a great basketball player. I hope he has a great career in the NBA. I don’t fault OJ for any of this because I have plenty of friends in college athletics that came up the same way OJ did and when presented with gifts from damn near anybody they would take it. I would too. Especially if I was under 20 years old like OJ is. And you made a valid point about Louis Johnson being convicted of selling coke, but he does have reciepts and he was in the inner circle. He wanted a piece of the pie like everyone else and then he got cut out, so now he is snitching. That’s what happens. So I’m sure he holds some knowledge and truth. However, the problem isn’t OJ accepting gifts, its the people that are offering it to him. People in his inner circle should have his best interest at heart, not be doing things that they know could negatively affect OJ. They shouldn’t have had any part of it. Let the money come from a booster, but instead they were in it to get paid off of OJ too just like everyone else. That’s the problem.

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