'15 NBA Draft/Offseason Thread

I hope they don't schedule Mavs-Clippers for Christmas. The game won't end until New Year's Eve with all the fouls Jordan will get.

But you know the NBA will ink that one in.

 

These things never get old.

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The inbox gimmick is great.

Heard JJ Redick on the Zach Lowe podcast. He was pretty adamant that Jordan owed the Mavs nothing in the way of a phone call, instead saying it was the agent's call. Reading between the lines, it seems pretty clear that Jordan has no spine and that the Clips played up the Fegan/Cuban angle

 

Speaking of that pod - Redick is going to be on TV the second he retires.

 

It was funny to hear him talking about how his travel schedule for the trip to Jordan's house revolved around the availability of his nanny.

 

This strikes me as the type of take that comes from living too long in the artificial pampered athlete world. So used to having others take care of life's annoying or painful non-basketball stuff that it seems natural to presume the agent should've done it for him.

I suspect Redick would have a difference perspective if he'd spent the last decade as a normal person with a real world job.

 

But he is not living in the real world. He is living in a world where he pays an agent to take care of negotiations.

 

I get that, except that this was not part of normal "negotiations", instead negotiations were supposedly finished, he'd already accepted the Mavericks offer, had already publically announced to the world that he was a Dallas Maverick, but then a week later at the very last moment re-neges on the deal?

Sorry, but in a situation like that, it's not acceptable to simply hide behind others hired to deal with your dirty work. At the very least you owe a phone call and explanation in your own words as to why you're now screwing the people you gave your word to. At least that's how a responsible adult handles it. A spoiled child handles it the way Jordan did.

 

Apropos of nothing: J.J. Redick slept with my friend and pissed the bed.

 

For some reason I think of him more as a South Bend Central guy.

 

Sorry, I will politely disagree. As Alec Baldwin said in Glengarry Glen Ross:
ABC - Always be closing.... ALWAYS BE CLOSING
and
Get them to sign on the line which is dotted!

The Mavs hadn't closed the deal. Not until he signed on the line which is dotted. And he doesn't owe Cuban or the Mavs shit. He pays his agent 6%. Let him earn it.

Jordan had not entered into any contract. The period in which they were talking was a negotiating period. I find it laughable that DeAndre is the bad guy when NFL and NBA and big time college coaches break contracts all the time, and nobody says shit (See Plaxico Burress talking about Saban last week).

You can't close them? Then go home home and tell your wife your troubles. Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted! You hear me, you fuckin' faggots?