Dennis Schröder Compares NBA Trade Deadline to Slavery

Big J · Post #81 » by **Big J** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:15 pm

Dennis is obviously exaggerating, but I'm not gonna like I do feel bad for what happened to Luka.

SeattleJazzFan · Post #82 » by **SeattleJazzFan** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:15 pm

that's just so incredibly insulting as it relates to actual slaves. what they wouldn't have given to have the choice (this is key) to play a sport and become richer, in many cases 10x or 100x richer than their slave owners.

Indomitable · Post #83 » by **Indomitable** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:20 pm

JB2 wrote:
Sixers in 4 wrote:What is going on with the GSW? Noone wants to get traded there and after Schroeder gets traded his numbers fall off a cliff and he compares getting traded to slavery.

Something is rotten in golden state.

Weird takeaway

I think Golden State is a crap show.

Fencer reregistered · Post #84 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:23 pm

Tom Seaver (great baseball pitcher, White) remarked on how odd it was that he had an "owner".

Calvin Klein · Post #85 » by **Calvin Klein** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:29 pm

Yet another proof that being rich does not equal being smart.

SpreeChokeJob · Post #86 » by **SpreeChokeJob** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:32 pm

Indomitable wrote:
JB2 wrote:
Sixers in 4 wrote:What is going on with the GSW? Noone wants to get traded there and after Schroeder gets traded his numbers fall off a cliff and he compares getting traded to slavery.

Something is rotten in golden state.

Weird takeaway
I think Golden State is a crap show.

They only serve avocado toast and Perrier in the SF training plantation gym.

Mr Puddles · Post #87 » by **Mr Puddles** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:45 pm

People in this thread keep referring to slavery in the past tense while in reality there is more slavery now than during the transatlantic slave trade (although the modern definition is also broader than chattel slavery).

If Dennis Schroeder is so concerned about slavery, maybe he can use his millions to help the people actually enduring forced human labor and trafficking rather than insult them with this ridiculous comparison.

FrodoFraggins · Post #88 » by **FrodoFraggins** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:48 pm

Is that why he turned down $84 million?

Arlo · Post #89 » by **Arlo** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:48 pm

Fencer reregistered wrote:Tom Seaver (great baseball pitcher, White) remarked on how odd it was that he had an "owner".

Stupid semantics. The majority of businesses have an owner.

Mr Puddles · Post #90 » by **Mr Puddles** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 10:54 pm

Arlo wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:Tom Seaver (great baseball pitcher, White) remarked on how odd it was that he had an "owner".

Stupid semantics. The majority of businesses have an owner.

Owner obviously refers to owning organization, not the players. Are these athletes really this stupid?

Hoop Hunter · Post #91 » by **Hoop Hunter** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:12 pm

What a idiot, he should tell that to the dude working a crappy minimum wage job and on government assistance just so his family can eat. These overpaid athletes have no idea about the real world.

canada_dry · Post #92 » by **canada_dry** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:37 pm

He's always been a bit of a goofy

QMemphis · Post #93 » by **QMemphis** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:50 pm

Castle Black wrote:No, this is not a joke.

Read on Twitter

“It’s like modern slavery. It’s modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you’re going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, ‘You’re not coming to work tomorrow, you’re going over there,’ they can decide that. They got to change that a little bit.”

Pisses me off that these dudes downplay slavery showing their absolute ignorance. Slavery presented two choices become property or die. This idiot needs to read or watch a documentary.

Even calling playing a kids game for millions of dollars while we have homeless people, kids in foster system, prison system and poverty causing further problems in this country is past disrespectful.

DusterBuster · Post #94 » by **DusterBuster** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:52 pm

I don't understand why teams keep signing Schröder, he seems to burn bridges at every stop and wear out his welcome fast... and he's just not even that good of an NBA player.

Handlez · Post #95 » by **Handlez** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:55 pm

SlimShady83 · Post #96 » by **SlimShady83** » Tue Feb 4, 2025 11:56 pm

This dude turned down $84m to play with Lakers, this guys is clueless and greedy

Birth of the Cool · Post #97 » by **Birth of the Cool** » Wed Feb 5, 2025 12:02 am

Obviously this is such a bad take, but I think we've seen a lot of out of touch takes by millionaires & billionaires the last few years. I think haven't that sort of wealth, and the power & isolation and echo chamber it produces has made a lot of these rich people eregiously out of touch with reality.

westbricc · Post #98 » by **westbricc** » Wed Feb 5, 2025 12:04 am

what a **** moron.

Thaddy · Post #99 » by **Thaddy** » Wed Feb 5, 2025 12:06 am

I would love to see him in a blue collar job getting railed by his employer. This dumb ass needs to realize employers always win the margins and it's not worth fighting against.

leolozon · Post #100 » by **leolozon** » Wed Feb 5, 2025 1:05 am

Comparing it to slavery is dumb, but it’s still weird when you think about it. You sign a contract to play with a team and then they trade you to a place you didn’t agree to be in.

Is there any other profession where workers can be traded for each other? The concept of trading humans against their will is weird.