Drinking Buddies Declare Eligible for NBA Draft, Receive Response From League
Ever wondered what it really means to be a free agent in sports? It means you're a player who doesn't have a team. For established professional players, free agency is just a formality, an interlude between stints of gainful employment. Then there's fringe players who who may or may not continue their careers depending on whether they can secure another contract. And then there's the rest of us ... perpetually in between pro contracts in the very loosest of senses.
For a couple of enterprising NBA fans, though, they at least have official, rubber-stamped confirmation that they are indeed free to sign with any interested team.
In April, Nick Moran of Hoboken, N.J., and Andrew Hunter of Brooklyn, N.Y., decided "after a few drinks" to send letters to the NBA in which they declared their respective eligibilities for the upcoming NBA Draft. Much to their surprise, they each received response letters a couple weeks later from league vice president Andy Taub, informing them that they were no longer eligible for the draft, thus rendering them free agents.
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