As much as Draymond Green complains, business is business and that was una of the unwritten rules who have always ruled the NBA. With the deadline of March 25 already on the horizon, the General Managers are stirring in their seats to try to take advantage of the transfer market in an atypical season.
At the moment there has already been a signing by the Brooklyn Nets, who got rid of the contract of Norvel Leather to make room for the former Oklahoma City Thunder and defensive specialist Andre Roberson, who had been without a team since last year.
The big names that are already on the grill are those of Andre Drummond, center of the Cleveland Cavaliers, y Blake Griffin, power forward for the Detroit Pistons. Both did not play last night to avoid setbacks or injuries following the guidelines of their teams.
The Cavs center has several girlfriends, with the Raptors, Nets and Mavericks leading the way. The inside of the Pistons, for his band, is in a more complicated situation due to his significant contract.
The options for Detroit are to trade the player for another player with a prohibitive contract (as happened with John Wall and Russell Westbrook) or that a franchise wants to absorb his toxic contract in exchange for adding other more promising pieces to the operation.
The third option would be for the player to give up much of his salary and the Pistons will let him go free, a difficult option if the player does not put in much of his share.
In the midst of all these announced moves, Warriors star Draymond Green complained about team and NBA mistreatment of players.
His words do not require second interpretations:
“I would like to talk about something that really bothers me. It’s the treatment of the players in this league. Seeing Andre Drummond before the game sit on the bench and go out in street clothes because a team is going to transfer him is silly. Because James Harden asks for a transfer and is persecuted. No one is going to defend it. And they wasted it for wanting to go to another team. They all destroyed that guy. However, a team can come out and say, ‘Oh we want to change this guy,’ and that guy has to sit down and if he’s not a professional then he’s cancer and he’s not good in someone’s locker room and he’s the problem. . We’ve seen situations where Harrison Barnes was taken off the bench, DeMarcus Cousins found out he was traded in an interview after the All-Star Game and we continue to allow that to happen. However, I am fined for continuing to express my opinion on what I thought should happen to another player. But teams can go out there and keep saying, ‘Oh we’re looking to transfer these players, we’re not playing with you.’
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At some point, as players, we must be treated with the same respect and the same rights as a team. As a gamer, you are the worst person in the world when you want a different situation. But a team can say that they are looking for a transfer and that man has to stay in shape, he has to remain professional and, if not, his career is at stake. At some point, this League has to protect players from this shame. We talked about all these things that you can’t do this, you can’t say that publicly, if you say this you will be fined. Anthony Davis was fined, I believe, $ 100,000 for publicly demanding a transfer.
But… Andre Drummond is being put up for sale and you want him to remain a professional? And then when Kyrie Irving says, ‘Oh my sanity is bad’ everyone goes nuts. Don’t you think it affects someone mentally? … Don’t you think that doesn’t affect someone mentally? But as players, we are told, ‘You can’t say that, you can’t say this.’ But can teams? It goes along the same lines when everyone wants to say, ‘Oh, that kid can’t do it,’ but no one wants to say, ‘Oh, that organization can’t do it.’ At some point the players must be respected in these situations. It’s ridiculous and I’m sick of seeing it. “
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