1.KG never ever demanded a trade.Compare that to the early season Kobe drama,Pau ,Kidd,Marion wanting and did get out.Even to the likes of Damon Jones,Marko Jaric,Antoine Walker and countless other losers who should be just glad they are making multi-millions than wanting to go to a contender(like they could contribute)and KG indeed has an invisible halo.

2.The best teammate Taylor could get for KG in his prime was Wally Szcerbiak.Having Spree and Cassell for 1 and half seasons doesn’t count besides they did went to the Finals when KG had both.It’s only because of KG that they even made the playoffs.You take away Pop,Manu,Parker,Horry from TD and give him Kandi man,Troy Hudson,Wally world and see how the Spurs make it past the 1st round (if they make the playoffs that is).

3.KG gave his heart,soul and body to the organization and this is how they repay him.FREAKING FIVE GAMES?????? especially when the team was out of playoff contention and the season was about to end.

4.Compare KG’s five games to the half season vacation Shaq has been taking since the last 4-5 years,Boozer missing nearly 2 season’s for a “Hamstring injury” and now Wade shutting it down for the year and it’s not worth even mentioning.

5.Lastly had KG played and won those last 5 games it wouldn’t have changed anything.They still would have missed the playoffs,they were still going to stink as a team.If anything KG did the Wolves a favor (if he did tank the games) by ensuring they got a lottery pick.

6.This is just a classic “blame the others for your faults case” better known as the Isiah syndrome.On a strength of five meaningless game and one fucking sentence,Taylor placed a 10+ years of incompetence as a GM on KG’s shoulder.Yeah, way to go Glenn,those 5 games were the sole reason you couldn’t find someone better than Wally World for KG.Those 5 games cost you a 2nd round playoff berth all those years.Those 5 games cost you to 2 yrs without a playoff berth.GET FUCKING REAL!!!!!!

I hear ya “Celts fan” and I agree that KG handled his diparture well. I also think that AI, given how he was treated on the way out, handled his departure very well (especially when he said he didn’t specifically ask for a trade, he said he was tired of losing and if they didn’t want to change their style of play so they can win then they might as well get rid of him because he doesn’t want to lose…thats different from just saying “trade me”). The whole time the Sixer organization had him sitting out awaiting a trade he could have went to the media and talked, but he didn’t. He just took it with a grain of salt and awaited the trade. Then spoke on the situation.

I remember Steven A. Smith going completely bananas on that 76er organization on live t.v for how unprofessional they were. The owner of the franchise saying on live t.v that AI asked for a trade before even talking to Iverson personaly? He did that on purpose, threw Iverson under the bus. And I remember them saying they cleaned out AI’s locker, removed his name plate and took off his images from the Sixers jumbotron the day after they sent him home…as if he hasn’t been the face of that franchise and the only reason the Sixers were even spoken of the last 10 years. I don’t care if people like the person Iverson is or not…thats f*cked up, period.

Even when Iverson goes back to Philly tonight, the owner said that they don’t have any special tribute for Iverson….yet the owner had a special tribute for a player from the Hockey team he also owns, when the guy came back and was only with that Hockey team for 3 years! Yeah, Sports Illistrated put them on blast. Thats what i’m talking about, just ungreatful and disrespectful. So, no, I don’t feel those types of players owe those organizations anything, especially when they have given so much of themselves. 10 years is a long time to put up with BS. Iverson isn’t a saint…i’m sure K.G isn’t either, but its like show some respect though. You know what i’m saying? SMH….but Kobe just handled his sh*t all wrong though. LOL! I’m sorry, you have to draw the line and Kobe was too much this past summer, he only had that team for three years and was already crying “trade me”. As great as a player Kobe has been…he just fails at life. LOL!!

YES, that FO paid K.G the big bucks… but you’d be a damn fool to say that he did not return the favor with the work he put in for that Franchise. I don’t care how much money someone is making, nothing is worth the constant ridicule and weight that is placed on some of those players in that league. Those guys are human, they are not machines, therefor they are physically enable to please EVERYONE at the same time. They do what they can with what they have. Thats it.

For people to expect for those players to go out and win games without the proper tools is flat out ridiculous. Thats just like you going to work and being asked to perform without the proper tools to do so. Think of it that way. Some of those organizations ride on those players backs like horses in a jockey race, wanting them to take them to the “motherland” with whatever they give them to work with. It doesn’t work that way. Don’t care that the players are killing themselves on the floor everynight just for the win, just as long as the tickets and merchandise keep selling right? Then the Owners and F.O gets bitter and mad when those players finally get tired and fed up of being road into the ground, and want to turn around and throw them under the bus. SMH, This needs repeating, if KG did blow those last 5 games, oh well…they blowed about 5 prime years of his career. Nuff said.

But you may want to read the article before showing ignorance. If you had, you would realize:

1) “relative success” for this club is 4 of 6 games with a desire to win as many more as possible for the season;

2) the interest was in winning the remaining games last season (and prior year) but KG bowed out early. For it’s scarcity of talent of talent in seasons past, the only one mailing it in early was KG.

Whether it was justifiable for KG to do that is your call, but if you bought tickets to those games, well, t.s.

As for KG, and assuming you are grown up, get beyond hero worship. KG ain’t got no halo.