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Getting nervous during the Trade deadline...NBA

Posted on February 23, 2011 at 02:04 PM.

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Well, it's that time again each year where good teams get better and make deep playoff runs; and bad teams restructure roster and free up cap space for the summer. I had a quick chat with my cuzzo the other day; actually during the all-star break, as he was snubbed and not selected to play or be involved with All-Star weekend; and we touched upon a subject that just makes him so "UNEASY"; and that was the up and coming trade deadline in the NBA; coupled along with the possible lockout looming. Now my cuzzo, is a very calm and cool guy, and doesn't get rattled at all; but when it comes down to this time every year, he told me all players and even supstars get the gitters, because the league has shown that anybody is trade-bait in any situation for the sake of the "TEAM". Now; he just got to the Pacers this season in a trade, and can be on to a next team, or out of a job, if he didn't pan out quick enough for the coaching staff.
I responded to him with a statement of "How do these team(s) operate? They can't just toss you aside like a used tissue!"
He then replied back with a solid statement " i get paid enough to be used like a tissue, and then some...lol";
So then i replied " If you get paid enough; so why are you guys clammering for more money? and threatening a strike, for a lockout to happen?"
He simply replied " It's for alot of the players that don't have guaranteed contracts/salaries; so if they end up losing their jobs, that's it. It's only a handful of players with big money salaries and big huge guaranteed money, and everybody else falls by the waist side."; "But over the last 5 or 6 years; players have been demanding alot of this 'guaranteed' money business on pretty well all contracts; be it a 10 contract, or a season"
My cuzzo also dropped it on the buttom line for me in his last statement " Nobody comes to see the OWNERS play...lol"
So my findings were kool coming from someone within the league right now; it's all about the "MONEY", and that's the bottom line; they (Management) don't care about players as much as you think they do; unless your paying them in big dividends.

shoutout to the Pacers prodigy

Comments

# 1 RUFFNREADY @ Feb 23

@Jackbert.....Yes he is. I guess D. Williams wanted out of Utah, and also got his wish. I guess after losing their long time Head coach; because of differences in management; upset him even more; and now he got his wish, but to the NETS? He just went from okay, to bad within 24rs. No, 3 to 4 year Veteran wants to be on a team that is rebuilding; it is an absolute waste of their time and energy; and it's not even a guarantee that this rebuilding process is going to get them to the playoffs next year; it really is a crap shoot. if you were around a group of players for 3 years and you knew you could collectivelly pull together and grab a playoff spot, i could see more effort out of some of these guys. I like to call this the LBJ effect; on what's happening in the NBA right now. Sign a big contract with some other big name, and bolster that team somehow into the playoffs. Williams wanted out a year ago, when they traded away his best friend on the team; but i don't think he wanted to go to the NETS; but management wasn't going to give him Melo credibility, and ship him to where he wanted. It would have been sweet to see him on the KNICKS with Melo and Amare; that would have been the New(est) Big 3 on the East coast.
The JAZZ have only told the NBA world today, that they are restructuring big time; and trying to free up some cap space for the next couple of years? Long term looks sad for them; as i always looked at them as that blosooming team in the Western conference that gave everybody else fitts when they played them at home. Yet; that is just a sneeze in the wind now; and i can only see them snuggling up with the bottom feeders of the western conference right beside the Nuggets for years to come...lol

game on.

# 2 RUFFNREADY @ Feb 27

@jackbert; I to would like for him to go to the Knicks; but i just don't see them having Miami heat money to sign 3 allstars, third being D. Williams. it is a long shot but it could happen. Keep that dream alive..lol.
D.Will will sign for big money and a franchise that has superstars already in their mix; i just don't know where that will be, with a lockout brewing over the horizon?
Cheers gamers