It is not the first time that a voice has been raised against the NBA transfer market and how the business of the American league works. It probably won’t be the last either. But it has been one of the most forceful messages against a process, that of transfers, in which the teams barely have the opinion of the players.who often find out that they have been sent to another franchise through the news or social media.
A treatment that has often been classified as not very humane and that teams justify with a business motto, ‘it’s not personal, it’s just business’. However, not everything goes. At least not for former women’s soccer star Lauren Holiday, who has harshly criticized this entire process in which her husband Jrue has been involved, who recently had to pack his bags after being traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Boston Celtics .
“This is not new. We have been exchanged before. Each time we have felt something different, but this time it has destroyed me”Holiday said in a statement on her social networks. “I do not write to accuse anyone. I only write so that the people behind the transfer business can be seen. Because contrary to the cliché, it is personal because lives are affected. It is never ‘just business’ as they say.”
“Contrary to the cliché, it is personal because lives are affected. It is never ‘just business’ as they say”
Lauren Holiday
The former professional soccer player gives the example of her own family, affected by a transfer that her husband found out about when he woke up from a nap. “He woke up and found out on the news. Not a warning, not a call. Not even a conversation in which this possibility was mentioned. It just happened and you have to move on because ‘it’s not personal, it’s just business.’ I share this because we are people, human beings with children who have their friends in this community. This is all personal to us. It’s our life”.
The transfer of Holiday, twice all star and three times member of the best defensive quintet of the NBA, came just two days after the player publicly expressed his desire to retire in the Wisconsin franchise, with which he won the championship ring in 2021.
“We mourn the loss of all of that while celebrating the hope and joy of what lies ahead. Growth is in allowing ourselves to feel this pain now and turn it into power to move forward. That’s who we are and that’s what we always will be. Let’s move forward because ‘it’s not personal, it’s business’concludes Lauren Holiday before moving to Boston
The point guard, who has played in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Milwaukee, was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers as part of the three-way exchange between the Bucks, Blazers and Suns with Damian Lillard as the central axis. Just a day later Holiday was packing his bags again after announcing his signing for the Boston Celtics, where he will play with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, forming a ‘Big Three’ with which those from Massachusetts are once again candidates for the ring .
Now the Holidays have to start over in Boston, a city Lauren knows well after playing there in the 2010-2011 season.
An American soccer legend
Lauren Holiday, who overcame a brain tumor in 2016, is one of the greatest soccer players in American history. After playing four years in the College League for UCLA (2006-09), Lauren played in the Professional League for the Pali Blues (2009), Boston and Kansas City. But it was with the United States team that she achieved her greatest success. She was international on 133 occasions and scored 24 goals for the national team with which he won two Olympic golds (Beijing 2008, London 2012) and a World Cup in 2015 after which he retired to start a family with the then Pelicans point guard.
Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of basketball his profession. Graduated in Humanities from the Carlos III University and with a Master in Journalism, he began working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, including the closing section. In 2011 he began as an editor on the official NBA website in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the United States. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, two World Cups and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude ACB playoffs, NBA and Euroleague Final Four games. He has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis. …
2023-10-07 09:37:17
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