Sooooo, her bio says she’s currently 29, which makes her 12 years of age in 1999, the year she says she lived alone in “the jungle with big spiders and poor little children with AIDS and, and, and . . . insert cliche here.”
It would have. The NBAPA tried to make that happen after Billy Hunter was replaced but the owners didn’t want that. More because they didn’t want to open up the CBA to discussion more than they thought it was a bad idea.
It’s so strange how against labor most sports fans are.
How they will decry players that don’t take a “hometown discount” when the billionaire owner who finances the team could easily afford to pay them.
How they will call someone greedy for taking the most money they can in a profession where average careers last a…
I’d play the game for free.
Interesting question. Case in point: I’m not familiar with Bucks’ roster, but is Delly in the top 8 in their rotation? They’re paying 9.5 a year to a guy who made about 1 last year. Does his signing mean they’ll only have enough to give that 11-12 spot the league min (which is $500k-$1.4M depending on years)?
It…
Sports is the only field where conservatives denounce capitalism and free markets.
Anyone who makes more money than me isn’t worth their salary.
Jarrett Jack is basically a name that pops up in every GM’s mind when a team needs a backup PG or a veteran contract to get to the salary floor.
Not equivalent, better. Jack had perhaps the worst +/- rating in the game over the past two years. He was fucking terrible, yet our idiotic former coaches and GM didn’t see it, because they didn’t believe in things like “statistics” and “analyzing players.” Thankfully the new regime seems to get it.
As a borderline NBA talent who just got cut by one of the worst teams in the league you have to appreciate the little things in life.
They replaced him with a roughly equivalent, younger version of himself. That’s not funny.
We’re around. We just have very little to discuss.
His big priority in free agency was starting, so considering the Nets trotted out Jarrett Jack, Donald Sloan, and Shane Larkin last year, he probably liked his odds there.
That’s like, how contracts work.
And, with the upcoming salary cap explosion, these deals aren’t really as prohibitive as they seem today.
I agree with the sentiment of this, but I do wonder about Mozgov. The Cavs barely even played him in the second half of the year. The future of players like him seems uncertain in the modern NBA.
They’re worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay them. (And in the cases of max players, most are worth a lot more than even that.)
Exactly. “Holy shit, I never anticipated all this bad publicity! Fortunately, I have very few principles so it’s easy for me to completely reverse myself in less than 24 hours. Watch!”
Translation: “I had hoped that no one would find out just what kind of horrible, sub-human piece of garbage I am, but, you have, so I’m callously trying to save face as best I can.”