Stupid a*s, basketball is about winning b*tch, point muthaf&ckin blank. If the company I’m workin for is a good company and another company comes to pay me more and they are a sh*tty organization h*ll naw I ain’t movin!
@kudabeen and heavy d
I feel you homie, I can understand your perspective!

Look up what being a restricted free agent means. The only way Josh Smith can get to the Lakers or Pistons or Celtics would be to play for the qualifying offer of 3.2M to gain his freedom next summer and then accept a deal for what they can offer which might be the MLE starting at 6M per. That’s a heck of a lot for one guy to sacrifice and risk to get to play in one of those elite locations.

Atlanta can match any offer he gets this summer. They want him to realize how important he is before he leaves town to check out the other options out there. They’ll offer him good money, but not max because of the business implications. They’ll let him know that if someone else offers more that they’ll match it because they have no intention of letting him go. If they are going to match anything they have no problem with letting him talk to other teams, the offer sheet can set his price tag.

That’s the truth there.

Vicious! LOL

But I totally agree… People always knocking guys for making business oriented moves. BBall is a tool for life, not life itself (hard for me to say being someone that predominately watch, read, and talk about BBall).

That’s not the total truth…

Josh is young so taking less guaranteed money for a chance to get a championship that isn’t guaranteed doesn’t make a lot of sense. Big picture: The more dough you have the more secure your family (you know your kids’ kids’ kids’ will have something) and community. That is way more important. I love BBall as much as the next dude, but if I’m a young starI’m taking as much money as I can get for a team that I can see myself giving my all to (not Clippers, Atlanta, or Memphis, because they haven’t proven they want to be champions from the top down).

The KG comment was lame, in that he didn’t hold out for dough. He didn’t take that money to play for a losing team. He took it knowing that he was the main piece that they were building around. Did they build intelligently? If you were sold a bill of goods and your management didn’t delivery you don’t have a right to speak up? Teams have routinely proven that money isn’t the issue when you are serious about winning. Was the Celtics worried about Cap-Space or Luxury-tax this year?

It’s about spending your money wisely to win. You know how much revenue a Championship brings in to a team? please… That $100mil wasn’t killing wolves. McHale and his botched Joe Smith deal was more the cause of Minesota’s pains, not KG’s paycheck. I don’t remember that being factored into any box scores.

Also, anyone hear Joe Johnson complaining? Last I check the Suns are sorta disbanded and haven’t won a Chip to date…I think Joe doing just fine for now…

@Coop

That’s were I see guys signing for a chance at a Chip when they are in that Mid-30s range. When you are a young star the team pays you big bucks, make you the face of the franchise, capitalize, and you try to get to the Chip. When you are an older player, you come in as a specialist and become the piece built around younger talent in hopes to make the team better all around.

As far as greed goes, I’ll quote Jay-Z (Moment of Clarity)

“Since
I know what i’m up against
We as rappers (ball players) must decide what’s most impor-tant (Life)
And i can’t help the poor if i’m one of them
So i got rich and gave back
To me that’s the win, win”

(KG is worth significantly more as a philanthropist than Robert Horry is. That is a huge win for all those in need out there in my mind)

Check KG’s Foundations track record, see how much he invested in building homes for the under-served and under privileged, then talk about how his “Stupid-a$$” for not being merely a ring chaser. Also, KG openly on multiple occasions offered to take a cut so the Wolves could get guys. More specifically before going in to the 04-05 season, he said he would re-structure, so the team could keep Spree and Cassell. The Wolves management took the leverage they had an misused it to the point where they flipped the whole damn boat over after their most successful run in team history… Payroll is managements problems not the players…

And as far as money fam you would quit ur job for 2g’s more than what your makin right now, per year. For a company with no benefits at that. How you gon tell somebody to pass up some M’s? Yea iight, go head wit ya broke ass young bol.