No...it looks like something that the US Court will deem as frivolous for the lack of a better word. If it makes them look bad I say Thomas should go for it.
I’m wondering if there is an insurance angle that we don’t know about. Maybe there is a payout that he can pursue especially because he is on the ledge of being out of the league. You can argue the that his injury, or the severity of it, was related to playing in Boston ‘s playoff run and maybe it prevented him from getting a market level contract for his experience, performance, skill level. I’d be curious to know if they gave him assurances or led him to believe that they would take care of him if he continued to sacrifice his body during Boston’s playoff run.
This should be a clear as day sign for Kyrie NOT to stay with Boston because they will NOT look out for him if he gets injured.
A hip surgeon talks about IT's type of injury. Hopefully the arthroscopic surgery went well and the joint surfaces are not too bad from the time he spent playing with it. https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/NBA...rd-could-have-lingering-issues/9901532275214/
IT calls cleveland a "****hole" https://sports.yahoo.com/isaiah-tho...cleveland-s-hole-facebook-live-013015787.html
He later apologized but ya, not a good look for a guy looking to get paid in the future from a team. Doesn't have to be Cleveland I can see owners/executives not being okay with this.
Well IT has fallen out of Denver's rotation. It seems as if he hasn't regained his footing since his hip issues. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/the-nb...ow-grind-comes-to-another-stop-191000702.html
The C Bags used him up and tossed him away, even after he gave all he had in the wake of the death of his sister. You could say they did him a favor trading him to a Finals team, but they only did it because they weren’t going to pay him and because the trade benefited them more. He’s a cautionary tale now, never give your all to a franchise that has no conscience. One that clearly helped Kawhi out big time and stopped him from possibly making the same mistake, doing what was best for his long term future instead of giving into his coach’s sour words and his teammates hate/calling him out. Isaiah will never get that big money deal now, he’ll be lucky to stick around on minimum contracts until he can’t go anymore, at his size you cannot be effective without all the speed and athleticism to make up for the lack of height.
He is done. But I'm surprised it went this quick. I'm also not blaming Boston. They made the right move obviously. Otherwise they would have been screwed for 5 years with a radio active contract.
you mean by letting him play on a severely injured hip? yeah, sure. "right" doesn't just mean correct move for finances and franchise health. it can also refer to ethics and morality. they knew he was hurt and should have held him out. but because they also knew they had no intention of keeping him, they didn't care about his long-term health. should he have cared more? absolutely! but he would have been vilified in the press (and probably the locker room) for sitting out the playoffs, so he was pretty screwed either way.
That's exactly the point imo. If his longtime health was at risk, he shouldn't have played. He was screwed either way. I do understand that Boston didn't act with morale but my point is that the FO is getting paid to have the best team possible. Of course they don't care about the individual. Every person always talks about this being a business but when it hits them, they can't cope with it. I do understand that these people are humans who have feelings regardless of their wealth. But I do think that when you get paid millions that's part of the pain. The only thing these guys must take care of is health. If they are not doing that, I can't blame anyone else. Talking too much about morale is probably a little over the board. The guy is rich, has a beautiful wife and he is healthy. It's not like he is sitting on the street or suffering from a physical handicap. He is not screwed. He just won't be an NBA superstar anymore.
yeah, and if boston overpaid him or lost in the playoffs because he sat, their owner would still be a billionaire and their uniforms would still be green. i don't get your point, tbh. one party sacrificed for the benefit of the other, and the other party did not even consider reciprocating in any way. if we start excising morality from everything, the world becomes a pretty sad place. saying that the party that sacrificed is just stupid...i don't know about that. but if that's the tact, then i expect you won't throw stones at guys who choose to rest to save themselves for future contracts and such. or players who demand trades to preferred destinations. i mean, they're just gettin' theirs. it's stupid not to.
My point is that Isiah is responsible for his health not necessarily Boston. His capital is his health. It's easy to say Boston should have kept him bug honestly, we don't know what went on behind the scenes. Also I don't know if Boston pushed him to play. I think he might have decided himself. I also think back then it wasn't believed to be this bad. He wasn't supposed to be done.
if boston planned on keeping him long-term, they would have held him out. at the time, i remember my dad saying: that's the bo jackson injury--why's he playing? but boston knew they were never going to pay him, so they let him make the emotional decision. and again, had he sat, he would have been vilified by pretty much everyone, called physically or mentally weak, and this would have been used as justification not to pay him (which was definitely a front burner issue for him (brinks truck)). so yeah, boston definitely had a role. there's a reason anthony davis's dad said he wouldn't want his son to play there, and it's not because they're admirably shrewd businessmen. it's because they've done some slimy stuff.
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