What part of NBA journeyman don't you get? You can be traded in this league or you can leave in free agency but if your constantly switching teams and allegiances your considered a journeyman. This will forever now be ray allen's legacy and one he wrote for himself. You might not like that fact. But still, it remains a FACT.
Which part of that description does Ray Allen fit, again?
The point i was trying to make is he's bounced around from team to team in his career. He started on the bucks. Was traded to the sonics. Then was traded to the Celtics. It was in his hands whether he wanted to retire here and have his name always associated with this great organization. He chose on his own accord to move on to miami. That will forever tarnish his time here. He chose to be a mercenary in my eyes. He can no longer be associated with this club when it comes time for him to retire. He chose to leave. On a less lucrative contract, for very trivial reasons in my eyes. To me he ruined his own name and legacy in Celtics lore and how he will be remembered when he makes the Hall.
Ray Allen is not a Journeyman
7 years with the bucks
4 years with the sonics
5 years with the celtics
Clearly we just have different views of what that word means. To me the fact he's bounced from team to team and in this latest move he did so by his own choice, that makes him a journeyman. He had a chance to retire here in the good graces of the organization and it's fans. He CHOSE not to do that. To me that emobodies the word. He a gun for hire. If he retires i assume it will be as a Buck now since that's the team he played the longest for. He's most remembered for his highlights here. That tells the whole story in and of itself.
I don't think that word means what you think it means:
Definition of JOURNEYMAN
1
: a worker who has learned a trade and works for another person usually by the day
2
: an experienced reliable worker, athlete, or performer especially as distinguished from one who is brilliant or colorful
It comes from a description of one's level of training, where the three levels are apprentice, journeyman, and master. As per wikipedia:
"A journeyman is someone who has completed an apprenticeship and is fully educated in a trade or craft, but not yet a master."
It has nothing to do with how many teams you have played for, it is a description of how much skill and training you have. I think by just about anyone's description, in terms of basketball skills, Ray Allen is a master.
Further, the root "journey" in journeyman does not directly refer to moving around, although journeymen do oftwn have to travel to find work:
"The word journeyman comes from the French word journee, which means the period of one day. The title refers to the journeyman's right to charge a fee for each day's work. Journeymen would normally be employed by a master craftsman, but would live apart and might have a family of their own. A journeyman could not employ others. In contrast, an apprentice would be bound to a master, usually for a fixed term of seven years, and lived with the master as a member of the household, receiving most or all compensation in the form of food and lodging"
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