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Suddenly he's a good prospect now, that's weird https://twitter.com/DraftExpress/status/1385753581983305730
I don't want to cast aspersions, plenty of recruiting and scouting services take money to rank certain players, it's what the shoe circuits exist to do. I don't even have a problem with it ethically. It's taking money *not* to rank guys that bothers me.
Not saying that's definitely what happened with Mathurin, but he should be a top 20 pick this year, there's no projection needed. If he blows his knee out next season, will Givony or whoever else deliberately undervalued him going to compensate him for the salary he's missing out
They absolutely have to pay these players, is my point. It's either incompetence or someone's being paid. You can't go from barely in the top 75 one day to "potential top 20 pick" the next organically.
If you see an account like Overtime or Ballislife tweeting video of a high schooler with a caption like "TOUGH," they were paid to do that. Usually by a shoe company looking to increase brand awareness of a potential future star. It just feels slimier to me when ESPN is doing it.
