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threethehardway wrote:nikster wrote:So you think pop is entitled?
What "stupid ass mind games" did the spurs try with Dejounte?
Everyone that has any ounce of confidence in their abilities and succeeds feels entitled.
There's nothing wrong with feeling entitled. Only losers don't feel entitled and deserving of opportunities to prove their worth to themselves and the world.
Here's what Dejounte said
threethehardway wrote:-Sammy- wrote:I don't understand why so many folks want to seize on any opportunity they can to interpret a story to mean that the Spurs organization is evil and terrible.
These folks were all over the Kawhi thing and seemed legitimately thrilled at the prospect that Pop and the front office were being exposed as wicked; watching them fall silent as the truth about Kawhi and his camp emerged was very satisfying.
But here they are again, ready to trash the whole system over some unsubstantiated comments a traded player with his own obvious issues made to a former player with a known grudge against the Spurs that you can see from space.
It's weird. I can't begrudge anyone with issues against Parker over the terrible thing he did to his teammate, but it's the eagerness with which some people want to disparage everyone in the organization, and the culture within, that mystifies me-- especially since the fruit of that culture speaks for itself and since nobody with firsthand experience who doesn't have an obvious personal motive for castigating it has ever done so (much the opposite, in fact).
It's simple.
The Spurs are fake. The whole, "They play the right way, they are so unselfish."
It's all fake.
The truth about the Spurs is that Pop is the star of the show and no one can be bigger than Pop.
They are basically the Patriots of the NBA and the whole thing doesn't work without Duncan. Nobody could say anything when Duncan was there because he went along with the BS, but as soon as Duncan leaves, we can all see the warts.
Now that athletes are unshackled and able to talk to other athletes in the media, openly about their experience, they don't have to bow down to franchises and coaches.
Irabrahamt wrote:Exp0sed wrote:such a horrible coddled generation
not everyone obviously
but Murray is a great example of that
good player but entitlement is just oozing out of him
he's talking like a 3 time champion when he hasn't accomplished all that much
but u pay a young kid 100M+ to play basketball and be ultra famous so that's what ya get
you gotta listen to the interview, kids down to earth as they come.. Tony Parker never came off as mr take them under my wing or mr. sacrifice. Spurs would have been better bringing him off the bench instead of manu during that whole run.. duncan and manu were selfless. we covered him with the same blanket as the rest of the organization
jokeboy86 wrote:-Sammy- wrote:
Where are all the critics and whistleblowers, then? So far we have a player with known issues complaining to a guy with a grudge against the team they're talking about, and a few years ago, we had grumblings from a camp headed by the uncle of the player who tried to force a trade against a now-known backdrop of cloak-and-dagger duplicity and outright dishonesty (supposedly over an injury that we now know was properly handled by the Spurs all along).
What else?
Yeah what is Stephen Jackson's deal? He won a ring with the Spurs so I really don't understand some of this animosity he seems to have towards the Spurs. It's almost like some of these ex-athletes with platforms are mad at or dislike the mainstream sports media/journalists so they rail against athletes/organizations/coaches that they think the media likes even though their beef is with the media. Like the countless amount of ex-players who dismiss Giannis when they get a chance.
NoProcessDoctor wrote:Atlanta traded three FRPs for this guy?
