The NBA Hates Blogging Ballers: Blogger Blockade Continues

by Scott Schroeder on May 4, 2009 5:01 AM EDT Comment 14 comments

If this dude doesn't belong in the NBA, who does?

Mark Titus, a 6'4" shooting guard, plays at Ohio State. As far as I can tell, his game resembles Blake Ahearn, as does his face. Anyway, for reasons I'm unsure of, he declared for the NBA draft. However, the NBA told him he couldn't, kind of.

The conversation I had with the DOBO (Director of Basketball Operations) basically featured him telling me that the NBA had called the Ohio State basketball office and requested that I take my name out of the draft because they feared that I was making a mockery of the process. He claimed that it wasn't all that serious, but as a precaution I should not talk about the draft on my blog any more. I kindly obliged.

Okay. Lame. The NBA doesn't want a kid that started as team manager to blog about his NBA draft prospects. Here's his Ohio State bio. His highlights, as a sophomore include connected on 2nd career 3-pointer in win over Presbyterian College. Why would the NBA worry about this kid? It shouldn't. But it did.

And it kept worrying. (Side note: Is the NBA an 'it'? If not, what is the NBA?)

Today, (no this isn't an FML) Dobo again approached me, only this time his face suggested that either the situation with the NBA had escalated or he found out that I was the one who spread peanut butter underneath his car handle door. [...] The NBA had called back and this time they demanded I pull my name out "or else." I assume the "or else" meant they were going to make me do an NBA Catalog commercial like Larry Bird did in 1987. Despite the fact that I would have loved nothing more than to do a similar commercial, I realized that maybe the NBA isn't an organization to be messed with and I pulled my name out.

Thus, I'm here to do my part. When we buy the Bakersfield Jam, we will sign this kid. Nobody can stop us. Not the NBA, not no one. We're unstoppable, baby.

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That kid is pretty funny...

At least on his blog.

…I think when the new ownership group signs him they should rename the team the Bakersfield Peanut Butter Door Handles in his honor, and then worship him during halftime at every game.

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by Mr Pappagiorgio on May 4, 2009 6:21 AM EDT reply actions

I've got the new promo

MARK TITUS COMIN ATCHA!!

by Aisander D on May 4, 2009 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Amazing!

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by Mr Pappagiorgio on May 4, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Just trying to keep up with you Paps

your photoshoppin skillz are hella tight.

by Aisander D on May 4, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions

The best shooter on Ohio State? That’s kind of like being the best shooter in the world, if by “the world” you mean central Ohio. I’ll bet he’s pretty good at cheering on his teammates from the bench too. I’d take him on as a long-term replacement for Damon Jones.

by richardhkirkando on May 4, 2009 8:54 AM EDT reply actions

I'm assuming that's his forte

Cheering from the bench. I mean, he played in two games from tOSU last season, averaging one minute, with no shot attempts. If he isn’t good at cheering from the bench, we’ve got problems.

Your decision to make him a Damon Jones replacement doesn’t go over with me though. Just doesn’t seem like he’s going to have the fashion-sense DJones does.

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by Scott Schroeder on May 4, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions