Ed O'Bannon's Deflated Basketball

[AustinHoya03]

It sounds as if Ed O'Bannon has learned JT Jr.'s famous life lesson:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061103332.html?hpid=topnews%E2%8A%82=AR

I always liked O'Bannon at UCLA, and I'm glad to hear he is doing well post-basketball. It's also interesting to note the article does nothing to glamorize playing in Europe -- perhaps a happy-go-lucky bachelor like Lee Scruggs is better suited to jetting around the continent than a family man like O'Bannon.

[jgalt]

Read this on Sunday. Seems like this is a likely scenario for many former athletes who never make it big consistently. But it is much better than wasting away the money made from that first contract and not growing and leaning from the experience. The article was pretty well written. Was this and exclusive to the WashPost or was a it a shared article from another paper? I dont really see the angle for the post to focus on O'Bannon and not a more local player.

Also i found that his 12 year old daughter is 6' 2" to be crazy.

[theexorcist]

Jun 17, 2009 0:52:01 GMT -5 jgalt said:

Read this on Sunday. Seems like this is a likely scenario for many former athletes who never make it big consistently. But it is much better than wasting away the money made from that first contract and not growing and leaning from the experience. The article was pretty well written. Was this and exclusive to the WashPost or was a it a shared article from another paper? I dont really see the angle for the post to focus on O'Bannon and not a more local player.

Also i found that his 12 year old daughter is 6' 2" to be crazy.

voices.washingtonpost.com/ombudsman-blog/2009/06/sundays_set_for_life_installme.html

Explanation - there wasn't a local angle, and some Washingtonians are annoyed that this didn't involve another preview of the Redskins' potential defensive alignments.