I have no problem with the Spurs being a business. The problem I have is with their BS to cover up the fact that they are operating solely as a business.
If the Spurs came out and said- we traded Scola to save $7M, I could actually respect that. It is a business move to save money. But instead- they send out lies about Scola to make him look bad and make bogus claims of how much they care about him as motives for trading him. That is what I can not stand.
They lie about people and lie about their motives and people buy it. They make claims that decisions are based upon basketball when they are all about money, They think it tarnishes their reputation to admit they are looking at the bottom line, but do not care how they tarnish the image of players.
They want people to think they actually care about playes and their families, but they don't. They bad mouth people and hurt their reputations to preserve their own public image.
They tell players when they want them to sign, especially for less money, how much they care about them. but when it is time to dump them, all that care disappears. They use it to get what they want and people just somehow don't want to hear that.
They want the public to believe that the Spurs care so much about Scola that they traded him to Houston to fulfill his dream of playing in the NBA- not that his agent threatened he would sign a long term deal in Europe and they would get nothing, so they used him to dump Butler's salary and save money.
It is the PR and the marketing that I hate. It is all the crap they send out through the media that I hate. It's how they play the public and the fans that I hate.
Kind of like you have this perfect girlfriend. Then she dumps you. You know you'll never be lucky enough to have a girlfriend anywhere close to that good again. So you turn bitter, hate that girlfriend. Say everything you can to denigrate her. That's ploto and the Spurs
Marketing is part of business. You sell your product. Companies lie to you every day to sell . It's the way the economy works, and to think otherwise is the height of naievete'.
I've also read every quote by Scola since the draft, and he does strike me as a bit of an ass, starting by immediately whining about being drafted in the second round of a draft that he could have, and probably should have pulled out of, his buyout being what it was.
Did it occur to you that maybe he's a bad egg AND the Spurs wanted to save money? Nothing says those are mutually exclusive states.
God someone pull the plug on the 's account for christ sake.
without commenting on the rest . . .
I don't know how this nonsense is still thrown around.
He was an international and 22 years old, automatically eligible.
No way for him to 'pull out' of anything.
He didn't have to go to workouts, true, but he was in the draft whether he liked it or not.
It is why I do not work for any profit driven en y and only ever as an adult have worked for non-profits or governmental service agencies.
Kind of odd comparing the Spurs to a perfect girlfriend dumping me- not only for the obvious gender problem- but because I am the one with the decision to no longer give them any of my season ticket money. See, I drop them.
You are correct, and I withdraw my snipe at him for not pulling out. He's still a whiner, though, and actually ended up better off by being drafted in the second round after all. You can't negotiate your salary if you're a first rounder. He got negotiating leverage by going to a ty team with no real PF. I'm sure ploto wouldn't approve if she sat down an thought about it. Players are commercial for-profit en ies, too. They sell themselves, usually with a non real persona in the mix.
you say that as though nonprofits don''t advertise or cheat. the american red cross is losing some of its luster exactly because of that. what's more, what do you think all those nfl-united way commercials are? how do you think nonprofits find volunteers and work staff? osmosis? marketing isn't something restricted to businesses, we are all walking advertisements because we have to be. we sell ourselves, whether to get a job or whatever. and geez, drop the sanctimony over where you have worked: nonprofits exist, and readily praise, for-profit en ies precisely because they make the money that can then be used as donations to nonprofits and thus allow them not to be for-profit. govt. services also market themselves (armed services, police and firefighting positions that come open, etc.). yeesh.
this only applies to 6-year-olds. no adult, or , 16-year-old is falling for any idea that an nba team is anything other than a business. but beyond that, i can't recall one iota of bad pr dished out by the spurs about this guy, and no spin about why the spurs did what they did came across in the article about it
link"I have said many times that he is the most important player in the club's history, so to lose a player of this calibre would logically be a problem," Club president Josean Querejeta said. "He is also one of the most important players in Europe, but in the past we have been able to overcome the departures of (Andres) Nocioni, (Jose Manuel) Calderon and (Arvydas) Macijauskas.
"The player has told me that he has an offer from Houston and that he wants to accept it. He says that he is very sorry but that this is his ambition. We thank him for his behaviour and we support him."
Querejeta warned Scola and his agent, however, not to expect a reduction in the buyout.
"The buy-out clauses are there to be followed," Querejeta said. "Evidently, if he pays the buy-out clause there's nothing to discuss because he is within his right of leaving."
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