« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2019, 09:01:44 AM »
NBA starting to become a joke
I agree the NBA needs a new commissioner and a good old fashion long-lasting lockout. If not for anything else but to find out exactly who is driving the bus.
Are we going to have an NBA where players turn away from the teams/cities that signed and invested in them, to play for a team with their buddy on it? Are the players going to be in charge of building teams? Or are the owners and franchises?
This started with the great Carpetbagger jumping from team to team in search of that "golden ring" that anoints him the greatest of all time.
The current system is fine. NOP had 7 seasons to build a good team around AD. Cleveland had 8 seasons to build around Lebron. The best players being stuck on bad teams for their career is not in the best interest of the league.
Players honoring their contracts is, though.
Who hasn't honored their contract?
When players ask for a trade, they are not honoring their contract. Of course they are still under the same contract they originally signed when they are traded to their new team, but if a player agrees to sign for 4-5 years with a franchise and then asks out before they are a FA, that is essentially asking out of your contract and often puts the franchise in a difficult position.
It gets really dicey when you have a guy like Kawhi (SAS) who won't play at all. Or even Butler (MIN) who plays only when he feels like it. Then you have this AD situation which is just super-awkward for everybody.
If they still show up and play they are honoring their contract. Asking for a trade is not dishonoring the contract. I mean if that was the case then a team could never trade a player because the team would be dishonoring the contract. In other words, you can't have it both ways. You can't be ok with a team being able to trade a player but not be ok with a player asking to be traded as long as he still shows up to play. Now perhaps Kawhi is that special case where he may have sat out after he was healthy, but he has sat out a lot this year as well so perhaps he was actually injured.
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