Shelburne: Thinks Clint Capela is leaning fowards taking his qualifying offer

Honestly, that is a narrow and antiquated, “dumb jock” outlook.
Fact is that to be a professional athlete or top 500 of any field, it takes incredible hard work and discipline.
You apply the 10,000 hours principle and they would be great at a lot of other things.
Your view is ignorant at best.

 

I don't think this is true. How much hard work did Stromile Swift do?? these guys won the sperm lottery that gave them a specific set beneficial characteristics for basketball. There are guys working in environmental suits in houston for 12-16 hours 100% humidity and 96 degrees. That's hard work breh.

 

I'd say he worked his ass off.

There are a ton of guys with Stromile's athletic ability that didn't make the pros. Go check out a D2 college basketball game. Hundreds of thousands of crazy, insane athletes out there that don't make it.

 

He was finished when he was 27. When did this work take place?

 

Nice precedent. We saw what RFA Aaron Gordon got. We saw what RFA Nurk got. And last year Noel turned down 4/72.

I am sure Capela is looking for Gorbert/Adams money but it just isn't there. And quite frankly he isn't as good as those guys anyway.

4/60, 4/68......that's probably the number.

 

In his teenage years that you didn't see.

 

I dunno man, he dominated Gobert in the playoffs. But still I wouldn’t pay him close to that. Center is a dying position in the NBA.

 

Capela had a good playoffs. But Gobert was defensive player of the year. You are being paid for the entire season.

If Capela can replicate his intensity and play against KAT and Gobert for an ENTIRE SEASON.....then yes, get your Gobert money.

 

Take care of the big fella already

 

Narrow and antiquated? I used to be around those jocks in college and the majority of them hardly put any effort into the kinesiology degree that is equivalent to health class and was what they were going to be doing with their career after college. They were there riding their scholarship and coasting by.

Narrow and antiquated? Why was Shaq talking about how so many athletes go broke just the other day? Go watch some videos on athletes and how quickly they go from rags to riches back to rags. It's staggering. The bottom line is a few athletes are intelligent enough to make smart decisions with their money and sustain what they earned and may have been middle to upper class financially had they never had freakish height and athleticism but outside of that most would not be making ANYWHERE CLOSE to what even the rookie scale contract of a late first round pick is.

Again, think about what level of intelligence, drive, sacrifice, etc you have to display in the regular market for a company to be willing to pay the average hard working American just a low 6 figure income and I'm not talking about New York or LA where you can't afford to live on anything less. Im talking the majority of the country. These dudes get sad when someone offers them probably 4 years/$25 million dollars where I would feel like I just won the lottery if some company offered me 4 years/$1 million and so would more than 90% of the world. Earning a salary of $250,000 / year is upper crust money.

Again, the likelihood of these dudes earning $250,000/year outside of the NBA had they never gone is highly unlikely and you all know it so they should be happy with that 4 year/$25 million whether they think it's their market value or not because it sure isn't anywhere close to what their market value would be in any other industry.

P.S. - Capela will probably make $12 - 18 million / year on his contract so maybe he can smile and shut the f up. And that goes for all those guys.

 

Any thread that starts out "Shelburne thinks" I just automatically disagree with because IMO it's starting out with a lie.

 

He’s one of the 100 best in the world at his craft. In any industry someone in the top 100 of their craft is filthy rich.

 

That's thinking in the right direction IMO...In her Laker world, she wants the QO..so part of her fantasy can be filled...CC is obviously unhappy with the lack of $$$, but the endgame isn''t going to match up with her fantasies...It likely ends here after all the other moves.. with CC signing cheap. Always the remote possibility of a S&T, but that would only be for one or two guys in the League....He's integral to what we do...and still improving.

 

NEXT summer, he'll be a UFA i believe.... then the real bidding begins

 

and there are millions of hardworking people all around the world who work in inhumane conditions 18 hours a day, every day of the year, just to have a loaf of bread to eat if that.
But we are sad that we don't have enough money to build a swimming pool or that we can't buy the latest iphone.

Conclusion : the world isn't fair.
Bball players have won the lottery but we also have won the lottery for being born in this day and age and in the developed parts of the world.

 

sign Brook Lopez to the min while we're at it

 

I've been thinking 4/$70 million, your upper ballpark. Let's say it's around $68-70. Does Morey offer a player option in year 4 as a sweetener?

He has a history of hating player options.

 

Everyone who liked this post is a loser

 

I doubt the 100th best grade school teacher is filthy rich or a bunch of other low paying professions. Grocery sacker, cashier, trash guy, mail man, janitor, cafeteria worker, lots of government jobs out there that pay very little. List can go on and on.

Disclaimer: I am not saying this because I think these are he jobs the athletes would have if they were not in the NBA.

 

Nice! LOL