sounds like you are the one with problems. his family should be happy for him if he's happy with himself. first he did get some money and quite a bit of it and from that video, it doesn't sound like he wastes his money. who knows he might have invest his money well and going to pursue his career in different kinds of arts.
This is my take as well. But it's the internet, and people love to post negativity. Who knows exactly what was in his mind when he signed the contract, but he seems pretty straightforward now. It's the risk any employer takes anytime you put money on the table. Sometimes you get a bargain (Harden, bargain of the century) and sometimes you get burned. Does this not happen at every place of work? It sure does at mine (not at those $ levels, but that's immaterial. The NBA makes a buttload of money, and the owners of the Bucks are not standing in soup lines.)
Found this, wrote a article a couple of months ago I guess. https://medium.com/the-cauldron/i-cant-breathe-either-a08516e2bef6
I've always thought it was funny how people could cheer someone on while they destroy their career and not feel bad about it.
It's one thing if he took the money he made and decided to go make clay pottery in a hut in Burma. But demanding ALL of the money on his contract is a whole nother thing. You give up and quit part way through your contract, you don't deserve a penny for work that was never done. I wish him the best of luck and hopefully he CAN manage his money wisely. Unfortunately, most people like this end up living under a bridge in 5 years.
Did you all hate Dave Chappelle this much when he quit his show? He walked away from even more money than Sanders is now. It's their lives and their choice. They have enough money to provide their families with comfortable lifestyles so why continue doing something they hate? If I had a fraction of what they've earned I'd probably retire.
So if a lawyer is making a ton of money but hates the work and the lifestyle (long hours, lots of travel, etc.), would you "feel bad about it" if he decided he would try something less lucrative but more rewarding to him? Also, who in this thread is cheering for Larry? People hope he finds a good path for himself. That doesn't seem like cheering, but it beats just insulting a person we've never met. We here at CF love basketball and can't understand someone walking away. At least I can't. But I can understand being in a career that bores you and wanting something different. Everyone understands that. We all loved Office Space.
He left about $20M out there. Granted, he could make it all back if he came back next season and played well.
No offense. But fans like you are scary. Larry Sanders has every right to walk away from the game if he chooses. We all have the right to walk away from our respective jobs if we don't feel right about it. The difference is WE don't have other ppl (like yourself) hoping we end up broke doing it. It's his decision. You as a basketball fan are the one looking ignorant being so judgemental on someone e'se's personal decision WHO YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. Athletes play sports but they are still human and go through the same things we do.
I wonder if more NBA players will start doing this. They need to restructure these guaranteed contracts and make them null if the player decides to "retire" from basketball. It's boo boo how they don't have to fulfill their end of the contract and still get paid.
I don't really see how either of these cases make you turn your head from someone with anxiety disorder. There are more functional people with anxiety than not. These two cases I would say are more about name dropping than actual anxiety.
Seems like he's doing everyone a favor by leaving. If the guy doesn't want to play basketball as a job anymore it's his choice, it free up cap space and roster space for those who do love the job.
For every larry sanders, there is 100,000 Chuck Hayes's just waiting to find a coach that like them enough to give them a shot.
and he also demanded ALL the money. It was due to negotiations by the Bucks and probably because of legitimate reasons (drugs animal abuse etc)to void his contract that he left half the money on the table. Another funny coincidence... he wrote on twitter last summer when arguing with a fan, that he would leave after they paid him all the money they owed him. Soooo many funny coincidences. Come back to Milwaukee Larry so we can show you the appreciation you deserve.
Since his "anxiety- greed" didn't lead him to officially retire the cap space isn't freed. It's the same money only you can strech it for more years.
To the best of my knowledge, the poster's job didn't require him to sign a contract that legally binds him to perform his job, unlike Larry Sanders. Can't remember Sanders' contractual details, but it was $X for X amount of years - if you leave, you should be subject to not receiving any more money / paying back what you owe.
It's not about sympathy though. Nobody is sympathetic with his situation. However, I'm not going to bash the guy for walking away from something he doesn't love. If you were an incredibly gifted matador, but hated killing bulls, would I be right to call you a waste of life and talent? As far as him "conning" the Bucks, Sanders didn't write the rules of engagement. Guaranteed contracts are the law of the land in the NBA, and if owners don't like it, they need to negotiate it as such in the CBA. They had every right to add a clause in his contract that protected them in this kind of a situation (as long as the NBAPA agreed to it), but obviously that didn't happen. Just like I have no sympathy for Sanders here, I also have no sympathy for the Bucks.
