Agreed. Almost nobody truly cares about what Karl thinks. He's always been an unlikable a-hole. I think most people would prefer that he just quietly go away somewhere for the rest of his life. More people would be interested in a book from Phil Jackson or Popovich.
NBA fans don't care about this yet so the NBA doesn't care about it yet. Once it becomes an issue to the NBA Owners' pocketbooks we'll suddenly see the league propose some "bold" and/or "progressive" measures to address the issue just enough that people will stop talking about it. And that's fine.
Exactly, those two won multiple rings. George Karl has won a FIBA world championship, I think? He's also won a few games, and had well publicized family issues, so based on that, I'll try to put myself in the ghostwriter's head: "How are we going to sell this thing?" "What makes George Karl relevant?" What makes him relevant is that he's won in the past with prominent players, some of whom still play in the NBA. So what I imagine he/she does is balance out the drama of Karl's son's cancer struggles, for a sympathetic effect, w/ the vicious tell-all of players who still have career interests in the NBA, whether private or professional. The latter is for people on the Internet to discuss his book...Mission accomplished, I guess. Whether that will lead to increased sales is...whatever. I'm not going to buy it. That's a cynical way of looking at it but tell-all auto-biographies are marketed heavily on personality, and Mr. Karl has always been acerbic, to put it nicely. The writer of the article brings up what I consider is the most important point in all of this; Where's the proof, Georgey? With his NBA ties severed, he had an opportunity to out somebody. IMO, it's naive to think some sort of PED-abuse isn't occurring today. What does Karl know about any of that though, besides baseless speculation? We all know it's happened in the past; Turkeyglue, I believe, was the most recent example. TL;DR - Only poison wine will sell you any books, George. When you make it from sour grapes, everybody is just gonna be mad at you for making bad wine.
Depends on his goal. You assume that he cares if people like him. But if he doesn't, then he'll get lots of money, interviews, and publicity out of this. And remember Jose Canseco - everyone mocked all his claims as a bitter ex-player, but in the end, everyone basically believed everything he said and his word was redeemed. It just took several years to happen.
People's face change and grow as they age you idiot. You probably a loser that never worked out or trained your entire life. I look much different than when I was 21.
I don't believe he cares if people like him. I also don't believe the inflammatory statements are desperate attempts to sell his book. George Karl has always rubbed people the wrong way and almost seems to get off on doing so. He had serious player relationship issues on the Sonics, Bucks and Nuggets. It's just who he is. IMO, this represents his final outburst or "middle finger" at everyone. I think his publishers should have advised him firing off this stuff would be purely self-destructive and do no harm to those he wanted to hurt. Specifically regarding PEDs, we'll see if he's redeemed. From my standpoint, Canseco always had some credibility because he stated specifics. Karl has no evidence or specifics and is relying purely on what's "obvious". Not the same IMO. The publisher should have demanded more meat on the bones before allowing the PED allegation in the book.
Lol at this guy grasping at straws of relevancy in attempts to sell his book smh. I would've been more intrigued if he just talked about his successes with Seattle, experiences with adjusting to the new era and not all the stereotype nonsense dancing around in his head because he's mad at Boogie and the kings. No harm done though, apparently no one in the league likes him anyway
Well, I also wouldn't put it past the league to use Putney as an example of "Look guys, we care about the product and integrity of the game!" while turning a blind eye towards the LeBrons/Wades of the league. It reminds me of that lame duck Flopping Fine they try and enforce on no-name scrubs while Chris Paul has yet to pay a dime.....
I guess my question is that if he doesn't care what people think about him, what is really self-destructive about his book? What harm does it do to him?
Wade's jaw is weird, sure. But Kobe and Howard's faces look pretty normal. I would expect most people look different at 33 than they did at 16.
It's random testing and results and who was tested must be shared with the Player's Union, so the Union would have to be in on the fix, as well, no?
