I always found it amusing that fans always hype up players that take paycuts as some kind of noble act and label players that refused paycuts as selfish.
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Someone may have already answered this, but, for example: http://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-athletes-go-broke "estimated 60% of NBA players go broke within five years ..." Not sure where the data come from, but you can find this number all over the place. Maybe just one person spouted it off on sports center and now everyone quotes it... because 21st century.
It's not a hard stat to check if u are in the loop and gossip around. Peeps like pippen Antoine or sprewell yea they are news worthy. but for lesser players it's probably too unnecessary to publish personal matter for us casual observers. Since the league does have prep classes for rookies on this very subject, I do believe it's quite common. Otoh, players can always get above average jobs to make ends meet, so "going broke" is relative.
Lol you guys act like he's a rookie. He's made close to $90,000,000 in his career. He's set for life multiple times over. It was a completely understandable move to want to join an organization with a championship pedigree in the twilight of your career...hell, he probably would've played for free and I couldn't blame him.
That's still a lot of money to give up to get worked in the 2nd round. He should have gone to Cleveland & at least he would have been in the Finals.
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I didn't watch 1 second of David West last season... but our PF position is bad enough that I would consider almost anyone.
watched a good amount of Spurs games this year. West is aight but doesn't have a whole lot left. Wouldn't move the needle on this team. Maybe in the locker room but not on the court
I don't know man. We're really thin right now upfront, would love to have West to backup the 4/5 and mentor Capela a bit.
West and Capela are two completely different players, in terms of playstyle, though. Capela can't shoot like West, and West isn't athletic like Capela. Seems the only thing West can mentor on, is experience.
Since West shoots 80% from the line, maybe he could mentor Capela on free throw shooting. Besides, what a novelty to have an 80% ft shooting big on a Rockets team. :grin:
I think GSW will go after him hard, and he will end up with them. The Warriors basically has no post offense, heck they don't even have a backup PF, legit backup center, which has showed during the conference final & final. West would be a perfect fit for 20+ minutes a game, back up Green, and Bogut.
