I think Larry has a right to be happy, and he has a right to value jacking up shots over winning. But if he is going to claim those rights, and if you are going to DEFEND those rights, then what about the rights of the Wizards, Cavs and now Bulls, in knowing that they are getting some half-assed “i don’t care” player before spending millions of dollars for him?

You want to be happy, fine. You want offensive freedom to jack up truly horrible shots, fine. You want to be a 39% career shooter, fine. You suck, that is another story. But if that has been your feeling all along, then you have flat out lied to the Cavs and lied to the Bulls, if not the Wizards. In the “corporate world” that is sort of going down the “fraudulent inducement” route. Larry was able to get these monster contracts because he “materially misrepresented” a key issue — that winning meant something to him. In the “corporate world”, that is illegal. Your corporate metaphor sucks on so many levels, but here’s just one. If a person doesn’t want to move up to higher and higher positions, and make more and more money, then fine. That’s fine. Kudos. But for them to SLACK off in their job? To perform selfishly? To undermine the goal of the group, of the corporation, to benefit their own sense of happiness? That is a person that, should they make their feelings known, should be fired.

I harbor some ill will towards Larry just because I gave him love when he was only pretending to care about winning. Well I’m not pretending. I fucking love this team. And I am very, very interested to hear some Chicago reaction to this story. How do the Bulls feel about their teammates priorities? The fans?

Love the stuff, guys. love the cavs. lebron shouldn’t leave it to the last minute, but damn is it exciting to watch.

go cavs.
go indians.
go browns.
go buckeyes.

brian

You freend, Da Wild Thing

Also I had never heard of players getting drug tested. Nice insight. See y’all at the finals (again).

You can’t defend that which is indefensible.

I always get a kick out of guys who say they’d play the game “for free.” “For the love of the game.” That is, until they’re “insulted” by their latest contract offer. Suddenly, where did all the love go?

Hughes wants it both ways. He wants to have fun, not work hard and not worry about winning and losing. But he also wants to be paid like a professional who’s job is to win games. If all he wanted from basketball was a good time, he could quit and head down to the local park and play. But no, he wants to be a professional basketball player, so he can get paid like one.

Don’t for a second think that Larry Hughes doesn’t care about the money. The only reason he is in Cleveland is because he thought the offer from the Wizards was so low that it was offensive to him and his overwhelming basketball talent. He turned down a six-year, $72 Million deal because it wasn’t good enough for him. But somehow I don’t think his desire “just to have fun” was brought up during the negotiations with the Cavaliers.

I’m amazed that people are coming to Hughes’ defense here. He knew what he was getting into when he signed the contract. He’s one of the few lucky people on this planet who has made enough money that he can *stop* doing the job he doesn’t like and find something else, but he’d rather just give a half-assed effort and keep collecting the check.

Hughes is a disgrace, and while I don’t expect him to care what I think, I can’t believe that people would be supporting his decision to be a disgrace.