15th overall wrote:ginobiliflops wrote:15th overall wrote:They negotiated as a tandemn, which is literally unprecedented and if you go back and check out the press conference announcing their signings, both McDonough and Babby openly talk about how important it was to the twins to stay together and if they had gone to FA it would've been almost impossible to keep them together. They didn't shy away from the fact that that desire to stay together was used to streamline a deal.
So then before those contracts even have a chance to kick in, PHX flat out dumps Marcus in a failed attempt to bring in a guy to take Kieff's job. These two seem like complete clowns, but they absolutely got F'd over raw by the Suns. Kieff is absolutely in the right to no longer trust an organization that treated him and his fam that way.
Yep, the organization who paired him with his brother for a year and a half and paid them 52 million over 4 years is the bad guy. Makes sense.
The extensions that they signed under the pretense of sticking together for a while HAVEN'T EVEN KICKED IN YET. So they didn't spend ANY time together on the Suns with the contracts that they negotiated specifically to stay together. None.
I'm sure they knew there was a more than decent chance that they wouldn't be spending the entirety of those contracts together (ish happens. it's business)... but SOME of the contract at least? Sure sounds like the Suns were selling them on that much at the very least and then doubled back on their word almost immediately.
The Morris twins are bozos, but the Suns clearly did em dirty here. Pretty cut and dry IMO.
I would agree if not for the felony charges. It's been reported that Marcus was a troublemaker and the Suns probably wanted to seperate them for Markieff's benefit.
