Woj Report: John Wall increasingly likely to sit entire season

KPJ took over Wall's tank commander position. Wall has been relieved from his duty

 

How long until Wall asks to go to the G league for some action?

DD

 

I said this originally.

 

I understand sitting him if you are working a deal, but if there are no deals in the foreseeable future, why not play him ? If the goal is to develop the younger players, is taking a few minutes away from KPJ going to really derail some sort of path to super stardom for him? It may be good to have a veteran on the floor to learn a few things from, Wall is no Lebron/Rondo/CP3 basketball mind, but he is not a fool either.

You will still lose a ton of games with him on the floor, but this just seems like we are building a losing culture, as a franchise they are ok with losing and losing a lot. That type of mentality can stain the franchise and could be hard to come back from. So far it only seems like Maybe Christian Wood is genuinely upset loosing, the rest of the team is happy to be in the league for now. This method worked for the Astros, but I am not sure it works in the NBA unless you have an incredible front office.

 

Looks bad.

 

17/18 - $18 million 41 games
18/19 - $ 19 million 32 games
20/21 - $ 41 million 40 games

From 2017 to 2022, he played 113 games for $160 million.

 

nah i am applauding this... sitting johnny the ballhog who ruined one entire season of rockets basketball for me is my championship for this year....

i hope they really continue with sitting him for good or ill start boycotting rockets games again

 

so fitting that the toxic ballhog is benched for good lololololol

he insulted basketball gods by staining the beautiful game of basketball

 

They want to prevent him from getting hurt so badly that they cannot trade him as an expiring.

With our luck, he'll probably slip in the bathroom and tear his ACL anyway.

 

I think Wall is still an all star if given an average coach, system and team to work with. He was/is a great talent. He earned his contract.

 

160,000,000/113 = 1,415,929. 1.4 million dollars per game. Assuming he plays all 48 minutes of every single game, that's $29,498 a minute.

It took me about 2 minutes to do the math and type this post. If I was Wall, I would have earned 60k in that time frame.

What am I doing with my life?

 

Actually he averaged about 33.5 minutes per game, a total of 3802 minutes to be exact. That's $42,083 per minute, or $701 per second.

Yeah, what are you doing with your life?

 

lol his hands were also healthy should of been passing the ball...hed still be playing.....

punishing rockets for siting him would be as absurd as commisioner punishing players for ballhogging or taking inefficient shots....

 

If I were the league I wouldn’t be okay with this. If he was coming off an injury, fine. You’re not a good team, you’ve got young talent to develop, he’ll eat up their minutes and it won’t actually help compete. But he’s 100% healthy. This is tanking, which is against league rules. Sitting while you wait for a trade is one thing. Sitting a healthy, star (yes, he’s still considered a star) player an entire year so you can “develop” aka get a high draft pick is anti competitive and the league should not allow it.

I fully understand that this is better for us in the long run. It’s not better for the league. Those casual fans who go to games will be less and less likely to attend games this season and that hurts the league. It also gives a pass to other teams to shut down their best players when they know they’re not going to win. That’s now how this league is supposed to operate. Teams have a duty to attempt to compete, not give up when they don’t think they’re a top 5 team. /rant

 

DNP-MD (management decision)

 

Agreed. The next CBA should outlaw Rich Paul from being involved with the NBA.

 

should also league not allow johhny the ballhog to ballhog?

cause you really cant be competitive with the ballhogin star that cant shoot and wont pass the ball

 

Considering that he tore his achilles while slipping at his house, it's a very real possibility lol.

 

Like I've said all along, as poor a shooter as he is, Simmons still has a tradable contract (as long as you're not looking for a superstar, another starter, and 3-4 FRPs in return, like DM). Make the Simmons-Wall trade, and throw in House or even KPJ if we have to, but no FRPs. Let Simmons play this year, then trade him over the summer for more usable assets. In a couple of years, Ja will be ready for us to pluck as a FA, right when Green/Sengun/Martin/etc. are starting to hit their strides.

If Morey doesn't take that deal, then sit tight. But the pressure is building on him in Philly. That entire situation is toxic and weighing heavily on the team. Meanwhile, Embiid's patience is growing thin.