Josh Childress

[nickagneta]

There is nothing wrong with it but I don't consider it very altruistic either.  Military personnel live overseas all over the world for about 1/10000000 of what Josh Childress is.  To me he's playing in a league where he will be a top player and get paid double what he would get here instead of being relegated to making a measly 3,000,000 a year and being the 7th or 8th man on an NBA team.  Fight the good fight Josh.

I still don't get your gripe. It seems you're just peeved he decided to play outside of the USA and is endorsing working anywhere but the USA as a great decision. For him it is.

And frankly what the heck does military personnel have to do with anything. I applaud them, too. But we are talking about two completely different things here.

[cordobes]

"I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the entire Harvard faculty". There's no need to be a rocket scientist to make Childress' decision, I think. He'll be making more money and will be able to return to the NBA as an unrestricted free-agent because Atlanta will eventually renounce to his rights because the cap hold will be screwing them. There are tons of Americans living in Europe who are not Ivy Leaguers, I know a few of them. The Stanford thing is pure snobbery.

He'll be playing in a good team, has a good chance of improving his game, because the coaching staff is good, his teammates are not exactly scrubs and there is lot of time to practice and English is the official language in every good basketball team in Europe, Giannakis is not going to speak greek during the time-outs.

p.s. - Kobe's offer is rumored to be $83 million (net salary) for 3 years, but it's BS. Although it would be funny to watch Kobe playing weekly in gymns with 2.000 fans in the attendance.

[ederson]

Although it would be funny to watch Kobe playing weekly in gymns with 2.000 fans in the attendance.

Childress played his first game in an even smaller gym ! 

[Birdbrain]

I do have an issue with NBA players going to Europe purely for financial reasons.   I consider it very gluttonous and actually the definition of being narrow minded.  I mean when is enough money enough.  Especially with times we live in.  Are you kidding me with 3 million not being enough for this guy.  Sorry if he was going to play against best players and get paid the best then I would respect the move.  But he's a middle of the road NBA player who wants to be considered great and get paid 2x what he gets paid here.  I'm sorry if I don't think that's something that should be applauded.  All the best players in Europe are playing in the NBA or want to play in the NBA that's all I need to know, to not respect the move.  And I was using the Military reference to compare that they have all the same obstacles (not that everyone doesn't speak English anyway) while reaping none of the benefits.