This is not a new thing, Laker fans have been wary of him ever since his playoff performance. Me personally I thought for a long time it would make sense to trade him for a more defensive guard and/or center.
He is a good player don't get me wrong but not the best fit on our team. It was important to re-sign him because we couldn't have used that money on another player anyways. So trading him is of course going to be looked at.
Aw c'mon he may be an idiot but as a player he's good. A former all star and 2nd best player on a team that went to NBA finals twice, played 15 years. He was not a bust.
Interesting note: this is a guy who has microfracture surgery on both knees. Players career normally die after one of those surgeries and he had it twice. Dude would have been something incredible if not for those surgeries. Microfractute surgery is not done in NBA anymore because ppl realized its a debilitating procedure.
To me a billionaire owner asking the city to pay for their stadium is like the NFL paying its superbowl performers nothing and having the back up dancers work for "exposure."
Yeah maybe your right, maybe that dancer is just glad to get the "exposure." But is that fair? NFL making 4 mil selling a 30 second ad and selling tickets for 100k a seat, while the dancer gets paid nothing?
Yeah the city will get some extra revenue from a new arena being built, but isn't that how business is supposed to work? You build a new arena and can sell tickets at higher prices, city sees a cut of tax revenue, everybody wins? But because your business is really successfull you want taxpayers to give you a kickback on top of all that profit? Its pure greed and exactly what's wrong with the world today, billionaire not satisfied with being a billionaire and needs to exploit the lower class more.
I'm genuinely interested in how the coaches will handle this. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them really wanted to ensure a loss and deliberately run isolation players everytime for some g league quality player. Its happened before and its funny how Silver wants to pretend tanking is illegal while the NBA system is built to encourage this behavior.