Who wants to help promote Stephen Jackson's club appearance?

Nebula1 · Post #241 » by **Nebula1** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:04 pm

midranger wrote:It's funny that Jax has the right to drink himself useless @ 10 million per year, but dare exercise your right to complain about it and you're ridiculous.

Dude, it's ridiculous for Jackson to damage his opportunity to play ball professionally in the League even if it's his choice. I hate seeing guys waste opportunity. And it's your right to complain about another man's career choices, despite it being ridiculous in itself.

averageposter · Post #242 » by **averageposter** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:04 pm

I think its lame some players believe simply making it to the game on time is "doing their job".

Nebula1 · Post #243 » by **Nebula1** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:06 pm

Newz wrote:What are the points that support guaranteed contracts?

That we need to pay guys who don't earn their contract? Wow, great argument.

Look, if you can't understand both sides to a debate, then you're making an uniformed/biased conclusion.

Newz · Post #244 » by **Newz** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:09 pm

Nebula1 wrote:
Newz wrote:What are the points that support guaranteed contracts?

That we need to pay guys who don't earn their contract? Wow, great argument.

Look, if you can't understand both sides to a debate, then you're making an uniformed/biased conclusion.

I don't even know what the other side of the debate is.

I guess it would revolve solely around "Well what if a guy gets hurt? Doesn't it suck that he doesn't get paid because he got cut due to injury reasons?". That I agree with. I think it would be good, if there were NGed contracts, if the league put in something where if a guy was cut because of injury... that player can recover some of the money that the team owes him, but it doesn't count toward that teams cap.

Nebula1 · Post #245 » by **Nebula1** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:10 pm

averageposter wrote:I think its lame some players believe simply making it to the game on time is "doing their job".

I think it's lame that some franchises believe simply making it to the Playoffs is 'success'. Whatever. We all have different perspectives.

averageposter · Post #246 » by **averageposter** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:13 pm

Nebula1 wrote:
averageposter wrote:I think its lame some players believe simply making it to the game on time is "doing their job".

I think it's lame that some franchises believe simply making it to the Playoffs is 'success'. Whatever. We all have different perspectives.

No, I think everyone has that perspective, but I'm not sure what point beyond that you are making.

WEFFPIM · Post #247 » by **WEFFPIM** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:27 pm

I love when Nebs enters a thread.

Nebula1 · Post #248 » by **Nebula1** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:38 pm

WEFFPIM wrote:I love when Nebs enters a thread.

Google me slime. I'm from the streetz. :beer:

Ayt · Post #249 » by **Ayt** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:17 pm

Nebula1 wrote:
midranger wrote:It's funny that Jax has the right to drink himself useless @ 10 million per year, but dare exercise your right to complain about it and you're ridiculous.

Dude, it's ridiculous for Jackson to damage his opportunity to play ball professionally in the League even if it's his choice. I hate seeing guys waste opportunity. And it's your right to complain about another man's career choices, despite it being ridiculous in itself.

How is that ridiculous when the person plays for the sports team you support?

EastSideBucksFan · Post #250 » by **EastSideBucksFan** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:22 pm

Steve Francis nowadays. Dude looks old and depressed.

This is Jax future in a few years.

bullox · Post #251 » by **bullox** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:24 pm

MilBucksBackOnTop06 wrote:Fans show up drunk to game or high all the time...so who are we?

Call me when those drunk fans get paid $9M a season for the sole purpose of entertaining other fans.

FrieAaron · Post #252 » by **FrieAaron** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:45 pm

Ayt wrote:
Nebula1 wrote:
midranger wrote:It's funny that Jax has the right to drink himself useless @ 10 million per year, but dare exercise your right to complain about it and you're ridiculous.

Dude, it's ridiculous for Jackson to damage his opportunity to play ball professionally in the League even if it's his choice. I hate seeing guys waste opportunity. And it's your right to complain about another man's career choices, despite it being ridiculous in itself.

How is that ridiculous when the person plays for the sports team you support?

I think it all boils down to guaranteed contracts, personally. I agree that it's ridiculous to try to control how someone chooses to spend their free time. That being said, if any of us with a "normal" job came to work late and our performance suffered (whatever the reason) we would be fired. I'm sure we all know people this has happened to.

Chuck Diesel · Post #253 » by **Chuck Diesel** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:17 pm

This is interesting. I'm always leery of any notion of a universal, overarching "real world" The world of an NBA player is so vastly different from that of an insurance rep which is so different from someone who trains dolphins for a living ECT. Jackson's world is it what it is, I think there are more deep rooted issues than partying as to why the general American public feels a disconnect from the NBA.

With that said, Jackson is making decisions that reflect poorly on himself in the eyes of the fan base and poorly on those we made the decision to bring him to Milwaukee. It's just a dump, goofy, depressing situation that needs a resolution.

reck0n3r · Post #254 » by **reck0n3r** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 8:52 pm

So what's the update? Does anyone know if him and jennings ended up going out? I really dont know what they could've possibly done at 2:30am with all the bars/clubs being closed.

But what do I know?

tski1972 · Post #255 » by **tski1972** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 10:56 pm

Did the Bucks or the NBA give permission for the Bucks logo to appear on this poster? Talk about legal issues, especially if something bad were to happen.

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #256 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:01 pm

tski1972 wrote:Did the Bucks or the NBA give permission for the Bucks logo to appear on this poster? Talk about legal issues, especially if something bad were to happen.

I tweeted the Bucks and the NBA about it with a link to the site.

AussieBuck · Post #257 » by **AussieBuck** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:12 pm

jimmybones wrote:Partying on your own time and partying the night in between back to back games are two different things. You can't tell me with a straight face that high level athletes don't need proper rest and recovery in between games. Especially back to back nights with travel involved. No one is saying he should be controlled 24/7. He won't be 100% tonight though, you can't possibly debate that.

No kidding. The NBA is such an embarrassingly unprofessional outfit.

paul · Post #258 » by **paul** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:37 pm

AussieBuck wrote:
jimmybones wrote:Partying on your own time and partying the night in between back to back games are two different things. You can't tell me with a straight face that high level athletes don't need proper rest and recovery in between games. Especially back to back nights with travel involved. No one is saying he should be controlled 24/7. He won't be 100% tonight though, you can't possibly debate that.

No kidding. The NBA is such an embarrassingly unprofessional outfit.

Honestly if we'd partied the night before a game in rep basketball or football we would have been cut and we're not talking about pro sports. It's insane to think that these guys are paid this amount of money with absolutely no restriction on what they do. I guess the difference is that the guys who truly care about their performance would restrict themselves. Still hard to believe there isn't some kind of curfew the night before a game.

REDDzone · Post #259 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:54 pm

Is that a team by team decision (the curfew idea)? I have a buddy who worked for an organization a year or two back and I thought he said they had a curfew, but I could be mistaken.

reck0n3r · Post #260 » by **reck0n3r** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:57 pm

So does anyone here actually have proof that they WERE in fact out partying last night?

Otherwise you're all going nuts over nothing.