# What? Derrick Rose cheated on the SAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 21, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162 "2009-08-21T03:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/21 "2009-08-22T23:51:40Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Looks like I was wrong and the minimum age is only 18](http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2407522). But for a player who thinks he can be a star, the D-League route still makes no sense. Why play for peanuts for at least one year and then hope for a callup when you can live the college life and shoot for millions? Why would playing in the NBDL for a year compromise his shot at millions? I assume the NBA teams would be just as well aware of him and just as likely to draft him out of the NBDL. (Or as others are suggesting, out of Europe.) I suppose being BMOC for a year and playing in the Final Four is more _glamorous_ then a year in the bushes, and less stressful than a year in Europe, but on the minus side you run the risk of being mocked for cheating on the SAT. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/22 "2009-09-02T18:25:24Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > The biggest star at the biggest program, let’s say Tim Tebow, for instance, should, imho, not get any of the money that he generates for the University of Florida; nor should any other player in a revenue generating sport (of which I count 3, football, men’s/women’s b-ball) be paid (outside of a small stipend or meal money). Where else are the athletic departments supposed to generate the money required to give scholarships in non revenue sports? Just because someone is on scholarship does not mean that goods or services they receive magically become free. And travel expenses for the non revenue sports need to generated somewhere as well. Why should Tebow be obligated to pay for the girls’ wiffleball team? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/23 "2009-09-02T18:46:40Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Why would playing in the NBDL for a year compromise his shot at millions? I assume the NBA teams would be just as well aware of him and just as likely to draft him out of the NBDL. (Or as others are suggesting, out of Europe.) The D-League is an NBA minor league. You don’t get drafted out of it. There are two ways to get into the D-League: be signed as a free agent, or be assigned to the D-League by an NBA team. Under the current rules, the second method was not an option for Rose. So instead of signing with an NBA team for an NBA-type salary, he would have to sign for whatever a D-League player gets, which is much, much less. If you are chosen in the first round of the NBA draft, you get a guaranteed contract worth at least a few million dollars over as much as three years. You get no such guarantee in the D-League, so if he played like crap or sustained a career-ending injury, he would have lost a lot of money. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/24 "2009-09-02T18:54:01Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > You get no such guarantee in the D-League, so if he played like crap or sustained a career-ending injury, he would have lost a lot of money. Couldn’t the same thing happen in college ball? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/25 "2009-09-02T19:19:35Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Couldn’t the same thing happen in college ball? Of course it could. But college is a more favorable environment: you get to play lesser college players, not guys scraping for a spot in the big league, and NBA scouts get obsessed with potential. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162/26 "2009-09-02T20:05:19Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Of course it could. But college is a more favorable environment: you get to play lesser college players, not guys scraping for a spot in the big league, and NBA scouts get obsessed with potential. That’s true and probably fewer games per year too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-derrick-rose-cheated-on-the-sat/507162.md?page=1)