lambchop wrote:UcanUwill wrote:Kent wrote:
It's without doubt nepotism, but more than anything it's Horst doing everything he can to keep his franchise player happy.
From that standpoint, this is simply the new sports world we live in, which includes college players turning into professional athletes who just so happen to take college courses.
I'm in no way knocking anyone getting paid for their services, it's just sports looks different today than it did in years past, and it's more about "what have you done for me lately?"
Maybe I'm the one who's naive and it's same crap, different day.
But it makes Giannis happy and he signs on it, and I think it is bad enough. Pau never wanted his team to sign Adria, I bet he would have blocked the idea even if it was presented at him to make him happy, he would have understand such move would only invite ridicule and is ridiculous.
I really do not get the mindset his bros have, I would hate to be such a nepo baby, I would definitely decline if Giannis told come here I will sign you just cause. I wouldn't want to be that.
Which team would Pau have made sign Adria? Barcelona? Girona? Tarragona?
Pau didn't have that kind of NBA clout to get random family members on the team. He's an ATG European player but no NBA team is going out of its way to please him like that.
I applaud you for the anti nepotism stance. Personally, I think it's pretty normal in families and companies where easy work opportunities are simply passed on within the family.
If I'm Giannis, I can understand preferring to be around your own family members at work, as opposed to spending time with strangers you don't even like.
I tried comparing this to regular job in my head, and I do not think it is that comparable, because for instance, at least I want to believe that people who get jobs due to their family connections, can still do the job at least, you know what I mean? Maybe in unbiased world they wouldn't be first candidate, but they can still do it. Like, if my cousin offered me a good job in his company, maybe I would take it, but I would make sure I can do the job. If I knew I couldn't, I do not have skills, I wouldn't take the job, especially if it is like based on family members recommendation. Like, I wouldn't want to let people down, and thats how I believe most people are. This is just, here, just sign another one of your bros, everyone involved knows he is not qualified for this at all.
I am not sure if Pau would have such power in the NBA, I am just saying, I doubt he would do such a thing. Most people wouldn't, he was just name that came to mind who had younger brothers who were bad at basektball.. D Wade has his son playing hoops, he has a lot of stocks on NBA team, he didn't force his son on NBA roster, people usually just do not this non sense, the kids and young bros want to have their own achievements also, thats why Seth was never Stephs teammate, he became one now when he proved his own worth. guys like LeBron and Giannis are exceptions and its just sad, you just make your family member into a joke, are they really feel fulfilled by being handed this, it is not their achievement in any way. I don;t know, I just know I wouldn't like it at all if I was in their place, if I was Alex I would have declined and just tried playing in Greek second division or whatever.
Maybe Pau is bad example, because I remembered now, if you remember 2006, everyone complained how Marc Gasol is on Spanish NT cause of nepotism, just to please superstar player, at a time, everyone thought Marc Gasol sucked, he proved all the people wrong years later becoming borderline HOFer, so maybe it wasn't nepotism tho and actual Spanish coaches knew better than fanboys complaining.
No, he is not.
Although that would be Bronny I guess
