As a team, [the] Minnesota [Timberwolves] organization, we want to win a championship. After that, we’ll figure that out," Edwards said
Football is a shit sport. Worse pay than the NBA and the hits will break down your body. Running backs barely last 5 years, maybe 1-3 year peak.
Ant as a WR on fly patterns would be money 💴
They being said - he’s never 👎 playing football 🏈. Ever
His attorneys will block. Full stop
Playing in the NFL gets less money, on average a shorter career, and a much much higher chance of permanent injury. I can see why that would be an attractive option to a top basketball player. /s
Everyone talking about an playing a skill position and i wanna see him bulk and rush the damn passer
I’ve always thought he was built like a linebacker but I forget how tall these dudes are. I wonder who the tallest decent NFL player is
If the Vikings are willing to invite Brock Lesnar to training camp or whatever, Ant can at least crack the practice squad
Just like how Kyler Murray’s going to play baseball at some point
Wouldn’t CTE though be really detrimental to the subtleties of movement and mental-processing that basketball requires?
Not to sound snobbish, but unless you’re a QB, most of the roles in the NFL don’t require the touch and other small things that the NBA does, and most of these things are on a subconscious level once you learn them. Wouldn’t repeated brain damage hurt his basketball ability?
If he wins a ring, the NBA would try their hardest to convince him not to. Not even for a year.
He’s definitely gonna do it like 15 years from now and look absolutely terrible
yeah just give up that nba money
He wouldn’t just be giving it up, he’d be giving it up to get his shit rocked. Then he’d be giving up NFL money because it’s not guaranteed
Unless you’re Deshaun Watson
May his body break a thousand times more so he can’t enjoy that guaranteed money.
Hmm, you downvoted because hang on let me see
checks watson’s history
People support rapists?
He’d also just not even make a team, so there’s that. He didn’t even play in high school, just Pop Warner which he gave up as a 10 year old. Won’t have a shot against guys who have been continuously playing organized football, studying playbooks, and specifically conditioning for football since they were kids.
Antonio Gates didn’t play college football at all and should become a hall of famer this year.
Antonio Gates is an all time freak athlete. I guess you could argue that Ant is, too.
That’s pretty fucking insane wow. Did he just get picked up off the street? How do you even get a scout to look at you if you don’t play college?
Insane athlete, college basketball player but too small to play at the next level (for the type of player he was).
He set up a workout with NFL scouts and got signed as an undrafted free agent after playing bball in college. So… Basically, yeah?
I dont understand, I googled Antonio Gates and the first thing that shows is that he played football in high school. Y’all made it seem like he had never played football and then just set up a workout and got signed
A lot of NFL money over the length of the contract can be guaranteed, especially for the 5, 6 year contracts. But you also have to be insanely good to demand that kind of contract, and only a few in the entire league are good enough.
NBA compared to NLF money…
Takin NBA money every time if I’m Ant.
Dude is MJ reincarnated so he’s gonna 3 peat in Minnesota and then retire to join the NFL.
Get his rings and then go permanently damage his knees in the first week
Did he play in high school? Itd be cool if he tried at least
He took up basketball relatively late and played football well into high school. Big reason why he was so raw coming into the NBA.
He honestly wasn’t that raw
He definitely wasn’t Kuminga or Sekou Doumbouya type of raw. But he’s also just a fast learner. Looking at the type of shots he was making and even attempting at Georgia, you wouldn’t think he had to learn to shoot and had to rebuild his shot from scratch in high school.
https://youtu.be/CUpdto-pKp4?si=zm3KlZfilueBzolY
He probably still could Goldy gopher some ten year olds.
These are the moments where the PR training shines through
Yeah it’s not as fun when it’s clearly contrived like that.