He is still on the front page showing a disgusted face.......being a Non Rocket that is a huge honor.
Exactly, no to KPJ the player, even if he was a shining example if professionalism, which he clearly isn't.
Well, just as predicted, it will all be dropped, all he has to do is see a counselor for a short time and he will have no record, and we let him go for basically nothing. Should have John Walled him until resolution. We panicked and bowed down to public pressure Al Franken style instead of waiting and getting all the facts. And we lost a quality NBA player, whose skills are exactly what this team is missing. Best available NBA free agents https://hoopshype.com/lists/2023-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-players-available-summer/ Oh well, got to move forward. DD PS. I was right - lol
Oh yes I was, I would have never cut him until all the facts were learned and the case resolved. I would have had an internal investigation myself - and seen what came of it. The Rockets bowed down to public "Me Too" pressure - in a time in which you are guilty until proven innocent - ridiculous - turns out that the truth was a nothing burger and as such he will get a new contract somewhere else and we get NOTHING for rehabilitating him. He has All Star Talent, and he needs guidance, I am 100% sure that Ime would have gotten the most out of him as he matures....oh well, we have weak management - what can you say. I said all along that it would come down to Jalen vs KPJ and that KPJ was the better player - now we are stuck with a mental basket case who has very low upside....KPJ was/is a better player and we could have kept him for cheap. DD
Every time this thread gets bumped it perks me up a little because I remember this selfish POS is off the team. Most valuable player move we made this offseason, lets see if any team is stupid enough to sign him for more than the minimum....or at all.
You said multiple times when this first happened that it was time to cut ties. I just pulled up a page at random in this thread to find the below and it's obvious you're backtracking now. So you would have never cut him but your thought we should cancel his contract. How are those not contradictory?
What about the NBA's investigation into the matter? Is that still pending? If so, he could still be suspended for some games.
Yeah, heat of the moment but never felt that way really, figured we should get all the details first..... I post on emotion sometimes then think it through - can get confusing I guess. And in my defense that was BEFORE we learned that the police made up the report and that his girlfriend refuted it all.....so that changes everything for me. It is ok to disagree - I don't need anyone's approval to have my opinion.....lol. DD
What I read is he did what he did but some bs legal shenanigans and paying off some people did help his criminal record. So he is a -now- a certified arsehole in social life, proven, as he blatantly make it out to be on/off court. However I still see you advocating for him to play in the NBA. Can anyone walk me through what I am missing here? Or even better, JUST NUKE THE THREAD ALREADY
Aaah hah hah haaa!! While KPJ was the epitome of good mental health, right? (If that's the case, his situation is even worse!)
This is such a bad post. "Heat of the moment" and "emotional" means nothing if you're able to type out a cogent response like the post that @MrButtocks referenced. There was nothing emotional driving your response - it was all based on logic and the facts presented at the time, which you literally also just referenced. Also, you're trying to defend yourself by using a "well, in hindsight..." explanation. Which is what the Rockets did. They obviously weren't able to see 4 months into the future and get the eventual results. Maybe they would have still cut ties, maybe not. Point is, you're a hypocrite; you're criticizing the Rockets for doing the same thing you did (acting on knowledge at that point in time), but trying to argue that it's okay when you did it. Make it make sense.
I hope that KPJ can get real help in sorting his life. But I am not sorry in the least that the Rockets moved on from him immediately and the legal issues made the decision easier. Based on KPJ's contract structure, I don't see any reasonable time frame for either bringing him back or trading him for more value than the Rockets got over the summer. KPJ's contract would have required his 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 salaries to be fully guaranteed on June 30th, 2024. Assuming he's going to be suspended by the NBA for the rest of this year and was John Wall-ed, then the Rockets, or any other acquiring team, would need to make that decision without him playing a single actual minute. If KPJ were a free agent, there's zero chance he would command a 2-year, $31M deal after not playing for an entire year; considering the bad optics and all of his behind-the-scenes issues, getting him on his past deal would not be any kind of surplus value. Even if only considering him as a matching contract to dump a bad deal (ala Lowry), he'd be less valuable than the Landale/Oladipo expiring package, considering that most of Victor's remaining salary this year is covered by insurance, and that if KPJ would have a $3M guarantee for next season, even if waived immediately after the trade deadline. The time for KPJ to be considered a positive value asset had long passed. Even assuming he had zero legal issues, I probably would have preferred them moving on over the summer in favor of giving more minutes to Thompson and Whitmore.
Every time there is news, it is going to be the same circle jerk and same posts from the same poster.
