Per Feigen on twitter. Picked him up recently, waived today. Did so to have his d-league rights. Good that Morey is trying to find his RGV bound rookies some friends.
This guy sounds like a real piece of work.[rquoter]Nelson was hardly the player around whom to build a team. He was a classic bully, targeting teammates who weren't as athletically gifted as he and tormenting the support staff. At the end of practice, he would punt balls high up into the stands at Pauley Pavilion, turn to the student managers and say, "Fetch." Nelson frequently talked back to the assistant coaches. When they told him to stop, he would remark, "That's how Coach Howland talks to you." Many players say Howland degraded his assistants, but only Nelson used that as license to treat the assistants with disrespect. Donny Daniels, a member of Howland's staff since Howland arrived in Westwood, would leave after the season to take the same job at Gonzaga. One player says that when he asked Daniels why he was departing, Daniels kiddingly responded that if he had to coach Nelson for one more season, he would kill himself. (Daniels, through his lawyer, denied making that statement.) Nelson showed Howland only slightly more respect. By his own admission, he often ignored the head coach's phone calls, and Howland resorted to calling one of Nelson's roommates, asking him to coax Nelson onto the line. When asked by SI why he didn't discipline Nelson, Howland said in a statement: "I firmly believe in the philosophy of giving all of my players the chance to do things the right way. There have been challenges with some student-athletes during my tenure here at UCLA, and we have utilized plenty of resources to help them, the specifics of which very few people would know anything about." But Nelson's behavior—and Howland's tolerance of it—undercut team morale. Combined with the partying of the other freshmen and the three sophomores, it torpedoed the season. UCLA won four of five against weak competition to open the year but then lost six of its next seven, falling to Portland (by 27), Long Beach State (by 11) and Mississippi State (by 18). Team members say that if Howland had taken a harder line with his young players, most of them would have come around. "But with Reeves," one player says, "the only thing to do was to kick him off the team." http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1195501/index.htm[/rquoter]
wow why morey do that this guy was a Sports Illustrated cover when in college but has too much ego and drama queen Dont like our beloved rookies together this guy.
Dude, Reeves was being a bully because he was treated as the team's star. How the hell can bully the guys in the rotation when he doesn't even have an NBA contract lol.
Wow, just read that article. This guy seems like a huge team cancer. Not only that, he apparently went out of his way to seriously injure some of his own teammates. Why does Morey want some douche like this on the Vipers, especially when we're definitely gonna be sending some of our high-prospect rookies down there? This guy lashed out at his own teammates when a call didn't go his way. How's he gonna act when he gets showed up in the D-league?
Maybe Morey wants to give Royce someone to beat up in McAllen to keep Royce entertained? BTW, Reeves Nelson went to the same HS as a certain former Rocket. Guess who?
I cheated and googled it. Here's another hint for anyone playing honestly. They're both undersized F/C's.
