Do you honestly believe that the only person representing the Rockets at this meeting will be Joey Dorsey? Come on. I guarantee the Rockets will have a team of lawyers going as well, who will be diligently taking notes. The players just have to have someone there as a warm body to "represent" them. I guarantee there are no real responsibilities this position holds.
Dorsey is a frank person. He is not afraid of speaking his mind. I think the rockets players know him well and make a good decision.
This is exactly what I thought. Also, I would be surprised if the union did not email a meeting summary to the NBA players.
Like others said, its one of two things 1. Nobody else wanted to go or 2. They feel that giving Dorsey more responsibility will force him to mature and handle them. I hope its option #2 but I feel its #1
It's hilarious that some of you think every team has a player that has to prepare for some sort of debate and represent his teammates. What is this, model UN and Dorsey's going to prepare the case for Rockets country? What are y'all picturing in your noggins? Fisher at the main table and every other player helping him out bringing research files, doing accounting work, checking legal precedent... :grin:
wow lighten up. if you think they're going to let players do the negotiations you're smoking. the position is just to sit at meetings and pass out booklets in the locker room after the fact. I agree with whoever said the Battier, AB, Scola etc are all laughing their asses off. Giving that busy work to a dude who's DOWN IN D LEAGUE at the time only to find out later through his agent is genius.
Maybe you should try it sometime. I didn't say all the players would rather do that, but alot of guy, 80% of the players find that stuff unimportant. Thats why when labor stuff comes up, they act like its new and they don't know. Alot of the guys don't understand bri and how it moves the salary cap and things like that. When the owners push for a hard cap, many will not understand why they should take a paycut when most people in the us have been doing that for the last 2 or 3 yrs. They're misinformed and uneducated to the aspects of the business side of basketball and it doesn't seem to bother them. Then a guy comes out and says i can't feed my kids or we have certain lifestyles, people frown up and are puzzled.
Who said anything about players negotiating? Man, they would be trouble if they were doing that! Perhaps this position is nothing more than passing out pamphlets (don't they have email for that now?). Done right, however, this position should be someone on the team who really learns and understands the positions negotiated so that they can explain it face-to-face to members in their chapter. The lawyers might be doing the negotiating, but the players are the union members and they ultimately have to vote whether to accept or reject the labor agreement. If they want to make a good decision, it will depend on the union members being well-informed. Picking a young, inexperienced guy with one foot in D-league who had the misfortune of not being present for the team meeting where the appointment was voted on isn't going to maximize your opportunity to be well-informed.
Thats my point. The union rep translate the information and the players vote. If the guy gives faulty info or doesn't do a good job of giving it to the players, there is a problem.
Does Dorsey's quote mean that he thinks he got selected "because he was in the D-League All-Star game" (if yes, that's hilarious) or that "nobody told him because he was away"...?
