Imagine if someone offered you several million bucks to do something you loved to do. Something you have done since you were a little kid. You wouldn’t need a degree to get it. Hell, you wouldn’t even have to be able to read very well or speak English much. But wait before you answer, it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There would be lots of travel on a chartered jet and you would have to stay in a luxury hotel wherever you went. A chef would prepare all your food during work and a staff would give you a massage whenever you wanted and take care of you if you got hurt. Gorgeous women would approach you all the time asking to have sex with you no matter how ugly you were. Kids and adults would idolize you and beg for a moment of your time. You would have to perform in front of a large crowd who hung on your every action and screamed your name. Now here is the really terrible part. You would have to live in a major city, not of your choosing for six months. The other six months you could live wherever you want. Hard to imagine isn’t it? Can you believe some people have to suffer through this kind of life?
Imagine the audacity of 30 guys, who mostly by their own actions became amazingly wealthy and successful. These fools went to places like University, and stayed 4 years. Some stayed even longer than that. They worked hard, and took risks. Sure, a few of them got their money from their Dads, but most of them didn’t. They became lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs and businessmen. After years of hard work they were rewarded with more money than they knew what to do with. Most of these fools paid hundreds of millions of their hard earned money to own an NBA franchise. These guys were stupid enough to believe that someone would be willing to live in some god forsaken places like Milwaukee, or Denver. Or get this. Canada? What state is that even in? It couldn’t be worse than Cleveland, right?
Don’t they realize that anybody with a high school degree would only want to live in New York or LA. Miami is good too, as long as you have buddies there. If you try to force someone to take millions of dollars to play a child’s game in a city that has snow, or taxes you must be crazy. Jesus, I hear this Toronto place uses the metric system. The metric system? Who the hell uses that?
I guess a lot of those places could probably get some suckers to take the millions, but certainly not the best players. They deserve to live and work where they choose. A man has to be free to do what’s best for him and his family, no matter how may kids he has.
Think about what you have just read. NBA players really believe this stuff. Well, the superstars do. A lot of those who follow the NBA do to. Well, the young people are just ignorant, and many of the writers don’t want to piss off the players they cover. To think for one second that the best basketball player in the world, LeBron James is actually deserving of $176,000 dollars per game is ridiculous. Think about that for a second. The President of the United States earns $400,000 dollars a year. LeBron gets that for a little more than two games of basketball. LeBron is the best player in the league, the one people want to watch. But he will get that money no matter if he plays all 82 games or not. He could decide he isn’t happy, or that he wants to save his legs for a game later in the week or year, so he’ll try hard next time. He doesn’t care that you spent a hundred bucks or more to come and see him play. He doesn’t care if you brought your kid, or if you planned a trip because your city or town is even worse than the worst cities that don’t have an NBA team. Do you think he was born 6’8’’ and 260 pounds? Or that his athletic ability and strength where just given to him?
Sure, fans come to watch the players. But the players wouldn’t have a league without the owners. The owners wouldn’t have a league without fans willing to buy tickets. Or fans willing to tune into their favorite team on television and watch the commercials that pay the bills. So they must pay to get the players to play in cities they don’t want to live in. And some of these rich guys are much richer than the others, so they are willing to lose a ton of money so they can say they have the best players and maybe a trophy or two. These rich guys think that they can just ship a player off to a crappy city and expect them to keep playing hard just for their huge paycheck.
Lock these ungrateful players out and don’t let them back in until they come crawling back and understand just how good they’ve got it. I love the NBA and will miss it dearly, but it can’t go on like this. It isn’t fair to anyone, but the players of course.
Imagine the audacity of 30 guys, who mostly by their own actions became amazingly wealthy and successful. These fools went to places like University, and stayed 4 years. Some stayed even longer than that. They worked hard, and took risks. Sure, a few of them got their money from their Dads, but most of them didn’t. They became lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs and businessmen. After years of hard work they were rewarded with more money than they knew what to do with. Most of these fools paid hundreds of millions of their hard earned money to own an NBA franchise. These guys were stupid enough to believe that someone would be willing to live in some god forsaken places like Milwaukee, or Denver. Or get this. Canada? What state is that even in? It couldn’t be worse than Cleveland, right?
Don’t they realize that anybody with a high school degree would only want to live in New York or LA. Miami is good too, as long as you have buddies there. If you try to force someone to take millions of dollars to play a child’s game in a city that has snow, or taxes you must be crazy. Jesus, I hear this Toronto place uses the metric system. The metric system? Who the hell uses that?
I guess a lot of those places could probably get some suckers to take the millions, but certainly not the best players. They deserve to live and work where they choose. A man has to be free to do what’s best for him and his family, no matter how may kids he has.
Think about what you have just read. NBA players really believe this stuff. Well, the superstars do. A lot of those who follow the NBA do to. Well, the young people are just ignorant, and many of the writers don’t want to piss off the players they cover. To think for one second that the best basketball player in the world, LeBron James is actually deserving of $176,000 dollars per game is ridiculous. Think about that for a second. The President of the United States earns $400,000 dollars a year. LeBron gets that for a little more than two games of basketball. LeBron is the best player in the league, the one people want to watch. But he will get that money no matter if he plays all 82 games or not. He could decide he isn’t happy, or that he wants to save his legs for a game later in the week or year, so he’ll try hard next time. He doesn’t care that you spent a hundred bucks or more to come and see him play. He doesn’t care if you brought your kid, or if you planned a trip because your city or town is even worse than the worst cities that don’t have an NBA team. Do you think he was born 6’8’’ and 260 pounds? Or that his athletic ability and strength where just given to him?
Sure, fans come to watch the players. But the players wouldn’t have a league without the owners. The owners wouldn’t have a league without fans willing to buy tickets. Or fans willing to tune into their favorite team on television and watch the commercials that pay the bills. So they must pay to get the players to play in cities they don’t want to live in. And some of these rich guys are much richer than the others, so they are willing to lose a ton of money so they can say they have the best players and maybe a trophy or two. These rich guys think that they can just ship a player off to a crappy city and expect them to keep playing hard just for their huge paycheck.
Lock these ungrateful players out and don’t let them back in until they come crawling back and understand just how good they’ve got it. I love the NBA and will miss it dearly, but it can’t go on like this. It isn’t fair to anyone, but the players of course.
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