Psychological Testing of Athletes

Michael McCann (Mississippi, Law) discusses the psychological testing of professional athletes over at his Sports Law Blog.  Here is the disclosure that starts his post and prompts a discussion about the privacy of prospective employees:

In a recent interview with NBA.com, Portland Trail Blazers President Steve Patterson discussed why he opted to pass on Al Jefferson with the 13th pick in the 2004 NBA Draft:

We had to fly a psychologist down there for him to take a test. He had difficulty with it. There were some other things that weren’t positive about him that I’m not going to talk about in the interview.