2018-2019 NBA Season Thread [Archived] Basketball • Page 1314

The Rockets are a shit show. Nobody is gonna be able to take on that contract.......except the Knicks

 

Please let the Knicks use their cap space on Paul, lol

 

Make it so.

 

cursed image lmao

 

I think the chances of CP3 or Harden ever winning a championship are super low unless CP3 decides to just take a vet minimum to go play a year somewhere very soon.

 

Glenn Taylor would make Gordon Hayward his son and editor for his paper

 

Let Zion Williamson choose where he wants to play next

Freedom of choice for players should be a sacrosanct principle, particularly in a league that claims to value meritocracy. Looking at the roster of NBA owners, it's hard to believe that these billionaire proprietors, many of them self-made, don't subscribe to that virtue. Can you imagine if Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera -- who, upon graduating from UC San Diego with a master's in engineering, chose to take his skills to Apple -- was instead asked by some governing authority in big tech, "Where don't you want to go?" then promptly assigned there?

Interesting article.

 

If cp3 negotiates a buyout or something and ends up on the lakers that would be kinda fun

 

Big Steve Nash energy

 

A $120 million dollar buyout would be a hell of a thing to see.

Edit: And considering the Rox owner was squishy about paying the tax, I don't see him lining up to pay someone $120 million NOT to play.

 

Incredible. Good luck Morey

 

In other news, Whiteside is opting into his deal and also wants traded lmao

 

The notion that high school/college graduates get to choose where they live and work is laughably ridiculous.

 

Lmao, like I figured.

 

Adopting the "Match" system is super interesting. And it has the benefit of maintaining a dramatic product to replace the draft for TV partners.

Announcing the "matches" live on TV would be tons of fun.

 

The highly recruited ones at the top of their industries do.

 

I thought that very interesting as an idea as well.

 

Not a Harden fan but the dude who wrote that article about Harden/CP3 really really hates Harden

 

Am a big Dwight Powell fan

 

He's the longest tenured mav other than dirk lol

 

A very, very select few perhaps but he implies that these athletes don’t have the same benefit as ‘most of us’

‘This means that in the most formative years of their professional development, the most talented young men in basketball are given no agency to decide what most of us take for granted: where we will live, work and put down roots in our adult lives.’

and that ‘NBA players aren’t afforded the most basic amenity of professional and personal happiness: a say in where you work and live’

For ‘most of us’ we do not have the basic amenity of professional and personal happiness or a say in where we work or live. Most graduates (or anyone really) are not working at their dream job or living in their dream location and are content at best with their jobs (if they can even find one in the first place)

I feel for athletes for a lot of things but how the draft systems work in sports is not remotely one of them. And if they’re hellbent on not playing somewhere there are other ways around it.

 

The Zion Williamson of any other profession would have more say about his employment than he is about to.

 

This was the closest I’d ever been to liking Chris Paul so of course he fucked it up in less than an hour

 

Of course all grads can apply to their dream job. That doesn't mean their dream job is going to hire them, but they can absolutely apply. It is the lack of a desire on the part of the employer that prevents most people from working or living where they want.

Zion doesn't have the freedom to apply where he wants. So I think the analogy holds just fine.