Joakim Noah

Let Joakim Noah be. There's a lot of voices questioning his decision to win another NCAA Basketball Championship, while "leaving millions of dollars on the table" by not entering the NBA Draft last year. None of those voices, however, belong to people who've won multiple championships, and particularly consecutive championships on the scale of an NCAA title. Before we ask the player agents, lawyers, business managers, talking heads, and other insects who float around the hind end of the golden calf of pro sports, let's ask Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan etc. what they think of Noah's decision. Each of them would probably just smile. Tim Duncan, remember how he left "millions on the table" to play four years of college? That sure derailed his life, eh? I wonder what Noah really left on the table anyway, a couple million of guaranties in his first contract, which will make him richer than most people in the world. Then, since the NBA uses a salary scale, his second contract will be big as it can be based on what he achieves. Why am I not worried about Noah's financial future when so many others can't seem to sleep? Now it's said that Noah may "fall" to the Chicago Bulls, a playoff team with championship looks. Would Noah have gone 1 or 2 last year? That's not for certain, and if he went 3-5 he could've began a career for some depressing team as Charlotte, or Atlanta. If that's what he left on the table, we should give his leftovers to the dog.