Just a quick advisory for reading stories that start “So and so MIGHT have violated NCAA rules” by . . .

The story could just as well have opened with “So and so MIGHT NOT have violated NCAA rules.

But if the “so and so” is O.J. Mayo, the might always seems to outweigh the might not.

In this year’s hearalded freshman class, there’s plenty of debate about which freshman has had or will have the most impact on the court.

But off the court, as a magnet for media, it’s not even close. It’s Mayo by a lot — and then some.

With USC and the NCAA both apparently investigating Mayo’s attendance at his first Lakers’ game Sunday thanks to tickets from his friend since grade school Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets, the violations-seekers are dancing on the head of a pin to determine whether the tickets were merely from a long-time friend representing no school, agent or pro team’s interests, which would seem not to violate the NCAA prohibition on college athletes taking tickets from pro teams — or weren’t they.

Since it’s O.J., guess folks just dispense with that “presumption of innocence” nonsense.

What do you want to bet Mayo is not the lone college basketball player to attend an NBA game this year?

What do you want to bet that very few actually shelled out the hundreds of dollars NBA tickets go for these days?

And finally, what do you want to bet that not another has made headlines or initiated an NCAA investigation?

I rest my case. Mayo is the media’s man.