LACtdom wrote:I agree, if it's legal then they can do what they want when they aren't at work.
I'm not sure what goes into an NBA contract but there may be something to do with drugs/body conditioning/being a role model, who knows. I'm just saying that for $10m a year I'd give up any of my hobbies during a contract. He can always smoke weed when he retires. My theory is, if you can't give up alcohol/drugs for millions of dollars then you probably have a problem lol.
Yeah but that's your own choice to value money and an opulent lifestyle over a different way of finding balance in your life. But no one should have the right to force it into my man Larry. I'm honestly not trying to be a dick to you or anything, but I find the usual "but he makes millions" that most fans splurt every time an athlete complains about something, to be a childish excuse to justify their own envy. Sanders worked harder than most fans ever will to be an NBA player, and deserves to be where he is, for the most part. Taking it away because he decides to bust a couple spliffs in his own time should be unacceptable.
Not saying that's the only reason he's nearly out of the league, he's had a bunch of problems in the last year and a half, and his performance hasn't been great as of late, but this seems to be the main issue they have with him. Otherwise he'd just be another one of many overpaid NBA players.
I guess this is just part of the white-washing that's been going at the NBA over the last 20 years or so, trying to make every player look like a politically correct middle-class dummy with no personality, even though very few players in the league are actually like that. I guess they're bent on making their soldiers look like the people they're taking their money from, and that pisses me off a little bit.
Sorry for the off-topic rant
