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Fair enough, but if you don't get the job done or do a poor job you wouldn't get another job and that means no money.
I'd also be willing to bet he wasn't required to run up and down a 94' roof for 30-40 minutes at a stretch (with only short rest breaks), trying to nail as many shingles on as he possibly could - all the while trying to stop someone else from nailing shingles - at the same time he was bumping around with 5 6-7 footers out to get him as he drug them up and down the roof...all this after he'd been on a midnight/all-night flight from nowhere to nowhere after sitting on a runway in another nowhere for several hours because of bad weather...
If he was, I'd like to have seen that. Otherwise, I don't see the parallel.
Fair enough, but if you don't get the job done or do a poor job you wouldn't get another job and that means no money.
That actually sounds like a sport I'd like to see. If we start drawing up the paperwork now it might get into the 2012 Olympics.
Get the heck out of here. We all know the life a NBA player is the hardest.
Or, maybe ESPN's Great Outdoor Games 2006?
About 4:00.
There you are, putting words in my mouth. Again.
In order to be comparable to your criticism of Tim, then you would have to be in a race to finish a house with an elite construction crew, where only the team that finishes first gets paid, and you can't have any slip-ups in workmanship.
Checkmate.
Its called being sarcastic. Too bad you don't seem to understand that.
Oh, I understand it. Perfectly.
Not really, but whatever melts your butter. Its just re ed to try to prove to YOU that my previous job was the same as Tim Duncan's job. We all know they aren't the same, but MOST of us know one is harder than the other. Too bad you're not in the MOST of us category.
Awe! How sad! You don't seem to be in the MOST of us category neither.
If you know that the jobs aren't comparable, then why did you bring it up?
Let me ask you this? Would you rather be doing what Tim Duncan does for a living and getting paid what he get's paid or would you rather do what you do now?
What Tim does? Unfortunately I don't have his TALENT. Therein lies the rub.
I don't have that choice because I don't have the skills Tim Duncan has.
I guess I didn't read this. It never occurred to me you actually were this stupid. You actually think that being a common unskilled laborer is more difficult than being the best player in the National Basketball Association.
Tim Duncan probably can run plumbing. I seriously ing doubt you can pull down 20 points and ten rebounds a game in the NBA for nine consecutive years while leading your team to three les.
And you're talking about plumbing? How stupid are you? Tim Duncan is freakin' Michelangelo painting frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel night in and night out, and you're ing because occasionally his brush slips when he gets paint in his eye.
Way to work around the question instead of answering it.
I answered your question. What are you smoking?
Sure you did.
Now who's not reading whose posts? I said I'd rather do what Tim Duncan does. But, unfortunately I'm not qualified. I don't know how I can make it any plainer than that.
Hey, the guy that does my neighbor's landscaping works really hard all day long.
By Kip's logic, he should be the Spurs' new power forward. I'm sure that his terrific work ethic will allow him to execute perfect footwork in the paint, thread the needle with his passes, and outquick opposing forwards for rebounding position, no matter how tired he is, because basketball skills are no different than pulling weeds.
Well, I'm a federal government IT worker; I want to be the point guard.
I'm not trying to say that landscaping, plumbing, or working for an insurance company is the same as playing at the highest level of professional basketball. What I was saying (which you obviously didn't seem to understnad) was that working as a plumber's helper, or construction is a lot more tiring than playing basketball for about 30 minutes three to four days out of the week.
If you think that the life of a NBA player is hard, read this.
"It's crazy how much they give us," said fellow Jazz rookie C.J. Miles. "They give us money to eat on the road, and then they give us food, too." The collective-bargaining agreement between the NBA and its players association spells out the rules for per-diem: Each player is due $102 for every day the team is on the road. It's broken down even more specifically, based on what time the team departs from or arrives back home. If the team isn't in Salt Lake, each player is allotted $18.36 for breakfast, $28.56 for lunch and $55.08 for dinner." Salt Lake Tribune
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