BTW is seems like 27 million folx act like that is a Paltry sum it is 27 FRICKING MILLION DOLLARS Would you stab your friends or teammates in the back for 27 million dollars? Because that is what Boozer did because LeBron and company are P*SSED. and if he DID sign the deal with cleveland. . Of course he didn't, nobody can sign until July 14th. how much LOYALTY would they have shown him [cause if orlando would have taken him for tracy McGrady his *ss would be in the sun right now] And his *ss wouldn't have gotten a 40 million dollar offer either. BTW . . . how much loyalty did we show Cuttino? [he could have gotten MUCH MORE money else where] Cuttino stayed here for years after that deal and has the option of opting out. If the Rockets had traded him a year or so later I can understand. But Cat stayed here for several years afterwards, got a ton of minutes, and was sent to sunny Orlando, with his friends, with no state taxes. Wow, the Rockets REALLY ripped him off!
Ah, I see. My point is though, I still haven't seen anyone in the media say it was against the CBA rules, and you don't have agents quitting, agencies being upset, and other agents around the league calling a guy out if it was an innocent deal. The fact that people are coming after Boozer and his agent tells you something because things like this happen all the time. The bottomline is that this deal by Boozer will probably kill verbal contracts, or seriously weaken them. And that means it will be much harder for teams to make deals. How would you like to be Phoenix, have a verbal agreement with Nash and then, just when July 14th is coming up have another team make a bigger offer to Nash and have him back out of that deal and take the other one? That's basically what it amounts to. Whether you think it's legal or not that's what happened.
1. I rather show my children and grandchildren an example of living with integrity than 70% more money than I'd otherwise give them. Do you think the extra money for the grandkids will make up for them learning that it's ok to lie as long as it's best for them? I wouldn't do that. 2. You're right that if the Cavs are lying, they are needlessly defaming Boozer and should be strung up. But, if they had a deal, Boozer is every inch as guilty as Paxson of circumventing the cap. Twolves lost draft picks and McHale got banned for a year. But, Joe Smith was also punished by having his contract torn up and being forbidden to play for the Twolves. He was as guilty as McHale for circumventing the cap. If Boozer made a promise, he's guilty on 2 counts: (1) making an illegal promise, (2) not honoring his illegal promise. I'm not saying Paxson is a saint. He made an illegal deal. Plus, it was a stupid, needless illegal deal. Then he openly trashed his former player, creating bad blood when he still had a chance to recover the player. Plus, he fairly admitted he was cheating. Typing it out, I can't believe what an idiot he is. But, he still only did one crooked thing and several stupid things. Boozer did nothing stupid, but 2 crooked things.
Who says the Cavs are getting "nothing but love"? Everybody thinks they are stupid. Some people think they were trying to save some money in signing Boozer long term before his value went up next year. Who give them love? But most people do think that what Boozer did is obviously much WORSE than what the Cavs did morally. Why is it so difficult to understand?
At the expense of someone else. You can justify the means by the ends. You just created a win-lose situation when a win-win exists.
plenty of people sleep pretty well at night knowing their parents and grandparents made money and got ahead because of Racism, Sexism and various other nafarious means Hell . . . look at the Kennedies, Rockafellas, etc Rocket River
