Nick Young boycotting Jordan gear
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Do you think any other players will take this same sort of stance against the Jordan brand?
It looks as if the players are very aware of MJ's hardline position.
Pacers swingman Paul George tweeted that Jordan wants players to get no more than 37% of basketball related income.
Warriors rookie Klay Thompson responded to George by saying “You think the 1996 MJ would pull this? Straight hypocrite bro.”
George agreed with Thompson saying that Jordan was a “straight hypocrite” who “should’ve been the first one behind [the players].”
If what they say about Jordan is true I can understand the players displeasure. As far as the hypocrite part I think that is easy to say as a player but MJ is no longer looking through the lens of a player but now he sees things through an owners perspective. That said I do think MJ is way off base when so many owners have been more than open to the 50/50 split.
This is certainly not going to help him recruit players to the Queen City down the road.
Paul George, Klay Thompson, and Nick Young are assclowns. Plain and simple. If these idiots think Mike should've been the "first one behind the players" then they're really driving home the "players are dumb" label.
These are players who will never (not even combined) reach the greatness that MJ achieved both on the court so they need to sit back and respect the fact that the only reason why they have even a modicum of bargaining power is because MJ put the NBA on a world map. Fucking bums.
Great post compleatly agreeOriginally Posted by SWedd523
Damn at 50% the gready bastards are still talking a 60 milion dollar cap.. The big name players is more sceard of pairty. And a hard line cap so some teams wont spend a 100milion in salery. Offer Nick Young a big contract from MJ. We couldn't get his noze out of MJs ass.
Last edited by dav7z; 11-07-2011 at 11:52 AM.
Thanks Ammofan!
When this is all settled, everything will be fogiven and forgotten. It wont mean a hill of beans to the players. Come FA time, they will only care about who will pay them the most and where they have a chance to make a Playoff run. And honestly, I dont MJ cares what they say right now. A few years from now, if someone can help this Bobcat team in the Playoffs, I dont think MJ will care what they said in October 2011. Winning and money makes strange bedfellows.
David Aldridge - NBA.com
One prominent agent who is normally slow to anger called last Friday at 11 p.m. He would never, he said, ever send another one of his players to Charlotte. Jordan, he said, was a rank hypocrite, who tried to get every last dollar out of Jerry Reinsdorf's pocket as a player, yet slammed the door shut on other players who only wanted the same opportunity.
When he was a player, Jordan seethed at being underpaid by the Bulls for most of his career. He famously chided the late Wizards owner Abe Pollin at a meeting during the last lockout in 1998, saying, "if you can't make a profit, sell your team."
It isn't known if any of the players at Saturday's collective bargaining session in New York, which Jordan attended, said the same thing to him. But others weren't happy.
"Damn, MJ...That's how you feel?," Pacers second-year forward Paul George tweeted early Sunday morning.
Minutes later, apparently responding to Timberwolves rookie guard Malcolm Lee's question, George tweeted about Jordan: "he said we gettin too much on that 50-50 (BRI number) and want us to get 37"...
And George tweeted to Golden State rookie Klay Thompson: "man straight hypocrite bro.. He should've been the 1st one behind us smh"
Certainly, people are allowed to change their views over time, and Jordan has to think about a much bigger picture now that he's signing the checks rather than cashing them. Yet Jordan is involved in business arrangements with many of the players whose salaries he's seeking to reduce. His Jordan Brand has among its endorsing clients Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony, Rip Hamilton Gerald Wallace and Ray Allen.
But it isn't just Jordan. There is incredible anger among players just under the surface. Anger at having to give up hundreds of millions of dollars, of course, but also anger stemming from their feeling that they aren't being treated as partners by the owners, but as employees. Certainly, they aren't partners in the financial sense; they aren't making payrolls or buying insurance, or taking on massive service debts. But that anger, no matter what side of the divide you are on, is real, and it threatens to do great damage to the league well after the lockout is over. I cannot tell you how furious players are that this lockout continues.
"The guys are going bananas," another agent with several star players said Sunday night.
Over and over in the last two weeks, I have heard the same refrain from players and agents, from big markets and small ones, max guys and minimum salaried guys. You can forget asking about community service work. You can forget asking for cooperation for NBA Cares. Basketball Without Borders? Don't even ask. All of the public service requests that the league has made of its players -- in part, it must be said, to quell fan anger after the Brawl at Auburn Hills in 2004 -- are in jeopardy.
And one agent intimated that players who would normally try to gut their way through injuries and assorted other hurts now will wait until they're 100 percent before returning to the court. Why should they jeopardize their careers, the agent asked, when the owners obviously care nothing about them?
"They're being treated like employees," the slow-to-anger agent said. "And people who are treated like employees are 9-to-5ers. They punch the clock and they're out the door."
Hope Resurrected: "I think I can bring an attitude to a team as far as, ‘All right, no matter what, we are not losing this game'." - Kemba Walker
"Its okay to be bad; just so long as you're bad ass." - Keetch
Ohhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooOne prominent agent who is normally slow to anger called last Friday at 11 p.m. He would never, he said, ever send another one of his players to Charlotte. Jordan, he said, was a rank hypocrite, who tried to get every last dollar out of Jerry Reinsdorf's pocket as a player, yet slammed the door shut on other players who only wanted the same opportunity.
Like agents would advise their clients to come to Charlotte anyway? Agents realize that they get less money when the players do... and they're even more overpaid than the players are. No agent is going to advise a player come to Charlotte vs a bigger market if the pay is equal anyway so it's not like we lost a competitive advantage.
Continuing that line of thought, if an agent has SO MUCH control over a player that they dictate where the player goes, then the players are a) reinforcing the stereotype that they're uneducated buffoons and b) beyond pathetic for not controlling their own lives.
As for complaining about being treated like employees, the players are absolutely, without a doubt, employees. The owners put up 100% of the risk in this business venture, and the players are the ones who perform the duties that the business (team) is employed in. That's like me going to visit my mom and then complaining about her treating me like a kid even though I'm an adult, "You're still MY kid so shut up and clean off the table"
If they don't want to be treated like employees, then they need to assume more risks in the running of the franchises
Why does nick young need to wear jordan brand gear anyway.. can't he rock his own? Oh wait....
these players are showing exactly why they don't belong in negotiations. what jordan and the other small market team owners are doing is ensuring the long term survival of the league. if they don't do what they are doing, the league will eventually be forced to contract. if the league contracts players like these won't have jobs.
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