The case of Trevor Lacey moving on again ...

I generally feel that reporters and journalists generally don't have any business telling a professional athlete when they should, or should not, call it a career, and likewise need to be careful about suggesting when someone should go pro early before his college eligibility is up.

No one knows what the person is going through in the first case, nor the pressures being felt with the latter.

However, in some cases it can pretty obvious what's about to happen.

I enjoyed watching Trevor Lacey play at the University of Alabama and even caught one of his games with North Carolina State this past season. Yet when he recently announced his intention to declare for the upcoming NBA Draft it didn't exactly set the basketball world abuzz.

Lacey averaged 15.7 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists while helping lead the Wolfpack to the Sweet 16. Along the way he was fifth in ACC 3-point shooting percentage, seventh in 3-pointers made, 10th in assist-turnover ratio, was named his team's  MVP and second-team All-ACC.

Granted, that's a pretty good resume, but it doesn't scream NBA, especially since he's only 6 foot 3.

Remember Kennedy Winston? In 2005 he led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, averaging 17.9 points, and once got the Crimson Tide to the Elite Eight. The 6-6 forward left school a year early only to be heartbroken about not being drafted.

Granted, every draft is different, but last season Winston played for Halcones de Xalapa of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional in Mexico, his 12th international team. He played in 15 games and is no longer listed on the team's web site (with a misspelled name on the stats page).

So far none of the prominent people who do NBA mock drafts have yet to even mention Lacey, and even if they were the track record of second-round selections isn't very good. For example, of the 30 players picked in the 2014 second round just 16 played in the league this past season. Only six participated in at least half of his team's games while Missouri point guard Jordan Clarkson was the sole player to average more than 10 points (with Washington).

Should he not be selected an option could be the NBA D-League, which acts as a feeder program and has a salary cap of $173,000. That's not per player, but for everyone on the team. The three types of contracts pay either $25,000, $19,000 or $13,000, and the league's MVP gets a maximum bonus of $3,000.

So why go pro? Lacey is already 24, another year in Raleigh might not have helped his draft stock, and there's always the injury risk.

"Mama always told me I can't please everyone," Lacey tweeted on Wednesday.