The most shocking news recently is the Josh Primo incident.
Prior to the season, the Spurs leadership had just exercised Primo’s contract option for next season, but then, the other day, announced his unannounced release.
“In the long run, this decision is the best for both the team and Primo.”
Spurs’ general manager RC Buford stated this in the public relations draft, but many people disagree with this statement, because there are many unreasonable points in this statement.
Because Josh Primo is on the future Spurs schedule
First of all, Primo was a Spurs-selected player with the 12th overall pick last year.This decision sparked a lot of discussion at the time, as the draft at the time predicted that Primo would fall towards the end of the first round for the beginning. of the second round, and it was inevitable to include him with so many choices in advance, one wonders if he really has such potential.
In fact, judging from his rookie season, he has played in 50 games averaging 5.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. year is only 20 years old, and he has ample room for growth Despite the four games this season have all been off the bench, the average playing time was 23 minutes, a slight improvement on the 19 minutes of the previous season, to demonstration that the team has gradually released the ball to Primo to play, and also shows that the team has a clear training plan for him.
So much planning for a player ready for release? No matter how you think about it, it looks a little weird.
Also, the Spurs’ goal this season is actually quite clear, which is to rebuild. Remove the original double defense weapons Derrick White and Dejounte Murray in exchange for more draft rights and future resources and let the young team players take on more responsibility, in order to test who is the green leaf the team needs in the next step. The floor of a football team, waiting to be enlisted in the great potential that determines the ceiling of the team.
In an environment like this, where any youth potential is precious to the Spurs, why should they give up Primo, 20, on short notice?
Finally, as I said at the beginning, if Primo is really going to be released, why would you want to exercise the option for next season early?
“The Spurs didn’t release Primo for basketball reasons, but something worse happened behind him.”
All sorts of unreasonable things made a lot of people guess what had happened behind the scenes. Some reporters broke the news, saying that because of some “bad things”, Primo had to make a deal with the team. to survive. As soon as such a discussion emerged, American netizens speculated about what the hell was going on and there were even rumors that Primo was involved in the murder case.
And all of this came to light after Primo made a statement.
mental health problems
“I know everyone is surprised by this.”
“Seeking help to cope with previous trauma.”
“I’m taking some time now and focusing on my mental health.”
“I hope in the future to be able to talk about it openly and help those who have the same problem as me.
“But until that day, I hope everyone respects my privacy.”
The mental health of NBA players has been widely discussed in recent years. Perhaps due to the rise of social media, every move of these players has been forced to be advertised in the sun. Compared to the past, players have to accept more negative comments, these criticisms will invisibly cause psychological pressures on the players, and these pressures build up, it is easy to have an impact on mental health, for example LeBron James has repeatedly closed his community during the playoffs , to block interference from outside information.
From this it follows that even many adult players may not accept it, not to mention a young man who entered the league at the age of 19?
If things stop there, it could be another regret caused by psychological problems. But the following revelations turned the whole incident upside down again.
Not long after Primo’s statement was released, ESPN broke the news that Primo was suspected of repeatedly exposing his body to Spurs employees, so Spurs chose to fire him and follow-up reporters added that the employee harassed, she hired a lawyer. , ready to sue Primo.
After this incident broke out, I overheard some people criticizing Primo, thinking he was a pervert, who claimed it was a psychological problem in the first place, but then revealed such “disgusting” behavior.
But actually, in my opinion, the two are actually related. In other words, it was Primo’s state of mind that made him behave so disorderly in the eyes of others.
Here, I would like to share with you some of my thoughts and insights from some of the materials I have read before.
First, the medical name of exhibitionism is “exhibitionism”, which consists of obtaining sexual satisfaction by presenting private parts in front of the audience, and through the frightened reaction of the other party, and then obtaining the effect of expressing stress and emotions. .
