(03-09-2022, 09:53 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: The players don´t pay themselves. Neither do they trade themselves to a team. Just because somebody makes a lot of money, doesn´t mean he doesn´t deserve to be treated with any sort of human decency. We long crossed that line with Westbrook.
The only question is whether you think Westbrook plays hard and tries his best?
He´s 33 years old.
Is it Westbrook´s fault that . . . .
Seems like we could replace the name Westbrook with Biden or Trump or Obama or even Bush/Clinton/Bush and have an even more productive conversation. But this is America. There are no thought police here (though some try). And we revel in our freedom to be dumb at the top of our lungs.
Yes, sometimes it’s bad, hurtful, counterproductive, or worse. But that’s how we became the birthplace of ideas.
Westbrook, by the way, is free to orchestrate a buyout on the cheap and then re-sign for a reasonable amount with OKC. They love him there. They’d worship him for choosing them over the payday. And his family would love basketball again. A horrific financial sacrifice like that? It would still leave him holding a fat, fat bag ‘o cash.
Your take is welcome too. But it doesn’t seem realistic to me. Not in a culture where ordinary Joes are accustomed to questioning the integrity of vaccines, and activists think they can tell their political allies where they can and can’t get chicken sandwiches.
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