BurningHeart wrote:I couldn't care less what he does for a living or how much money he makes as it pertains to respect. I don't judge or demonize people based on how much money they make. I'm not a Democrat.
Gee, as if I and others haven't been completely clear about why we feel the way we feel.
Look. You believe what you believe and we'll believe what we believe. I can already tell that this is gonna be next in line of rehashed bull on Suns RealGM for at least the next 3 years. I've made my feelings abundantly clear and so have you, and nothing either of us say will change a goddamn thing.
If he signs then I'll be forced to root for success but I'm not particularly a full-fledged fan of him as a person and as a component of our locker room, say, compared to Goran Dragic or Isiah Thomas. It'll be like how I treated Shaquille O'Neal when we were forced to have him on the team. I'll be happy if he does things that help the team and I'll be angry if he does things that harm the team. If he wants to be treated as a mercenary, I'll treat him as a mercenary and not a beloved Sun. I'll reserve my outward adulation for others until he convinces me otherwise, and trust me, I'll want him to do that more than anyone else posting on this board.
The discussion is tired as ****.
Wow, if this is how you react to imagined slights I can't imagine how worked up you must get over real ones.
And they're all mercenaries, and its in their right are just as their teams quick to ship guys off when something juicier presents itself.
Take for example the venerated Goran Dragic. A hero of the 2010 playoffs, not even a year later is cast off for rubbish. A few years later returns... because we played him the most money. And a year from now he will opt out of that contract... to collect more money.
