<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If Spencer Haywood could do it, he would. He says he would attend the NBA draft on June 23, wearing an old tie-dyed protest shirt and stand up like Peter Finch in the movie, "Network," and shout out his frustration with the basketball world. "I'd like to stand at the middle of the floor and holler to everybody that, 'I rebuke this draft,' " Haywood said by telephone from Detroit late last week. "I would look around the room and I would say, 'Everybody who is not a college student, get out of here right now. Go!' " Haywood said he feels like he's living in a Marvin Gaye song. "You know," he said, "What's going on?" It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. In 1971, when Haywood's antitrust suit against the NBA went to the Supreme Court, he didn't want it turned into an open-door policy for every high-school hotshot who wasn't interested in an education. When he took on the league's draft policies, Haywood was looking at options for players like him, who had established themselves in college or the Olympics and were ready for the ascension. "My ruling has gone crazy and I'm going crazy about the ruling," Haywood said. "It makes me nuts what I'm seeing going on with the league. It's freaking insane. The union has to step up with the commissioner and find a solution." </div> <font size="1">Full Story courtesy of Steve Kelley and the Seattle Times.</font> Well the man who should have his jersey in the rafters has never been one to keep his mouth shut. Interesting article.
