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Report: Wade Yelled At Stern While Making Pointed Remarks
Sep 30, 2011 8:30 PM EDT
Dwyane Wade reportedly yelled at David Stern while making 'pointed remarks' during Friday's labor meeting, sources tell ESPN.
Sources say Stern pointed at Wade, which was taken as a sign of disrespect and that triggered the outburst.
Wade was quoted this week of saying that players like him would be worth upwards of $50 million if there were no salary restrictions.
Last edited by Koolaid_Man; 10-01-2011 at 07:21 AM.
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tbh bigger cajones than Kobe
Kobe woulda never yelled @ Stern
He doesn't have too...it's like a drug dealer who never touches the yayo but still clocks a million bucks every hour...Kobe has people to do the dirty work for him...I'm just like Wade I'm a soldier for the Mamba...but I am moving up in rank also.
Besides Stern is on record as saying Kobe was on his personal all time favorite team..which he said was:
Magic
MJ
Bird
Shaq
Kobe
So Stren would never point at Kobe to begin with....
what are you referring to? your OCD acting up this morning...you still smarting over the board recognizing you as a bigot aren't you. People can change midget they can change...I can hear the desire / sincerity in your posts.
Wade biting the hand that fed him 1 million FTAs?
Is that why the refs cheated for them?
Besides Stern is on record as saying Kobe was on his personal all time favorite team..which he said was:
Magic
MJ
Bird
Shaq
Kobe
So Stren would never point at Kobe to begin with....
needing refs to win with two so called top ten players of all-time
You got no room. Stern & the refs cheated for your Spurs as well.Is that why the refs cheated for them?
It happens.
Sons none of these players DESERVE anything, but rather are blessed to "earn" the outrageous salaries they get.
agreed. kind of shocking just how greedy people can get.
no more than the owners deserve what they make...and no more do strippers who shake their asses for ME....
Son the owners are the ones who each have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into making the NBA. The players have invested absolutely nothing and are blessed to have a platform to play on to make the type of money they do. Also people (business ignorant people) tend to forget that its not just the owners when people say "owners vs players". The owners also represent the hundreds, if not thousands of employees for the teams that make the NBA work. So if you ask me the owners should get 60% while the greedy (and for the most part uneducated) players get 40% and should be thankful to get that.no more than the owners deserve what they make...and no more do strippers who shake their asses for ME....
But maybe their relationship has gone downhill based on last year.Wade biting the hand that fed him 1 million FTAs?
I say the players are the ones getting ed...Take MJ for example...he played all those years a and didn't make a dam thing until I think the last 2 seasons...I think one contract he played on wasn't even a million bucks...The owners make money because of the product plain and simple...
update to this story:
Report: Wade Warned Stern Not To Point Finger, Stop Acting Like Child
Oct 01, 2011 10:42 AM EDT
Dwyane Wade "stood up for himself," a person with knowledge of the meeting said when he confronted David Stern, who was behaving with a tone and gestures the players took exception to.
According to two people familiar with the incident, Wade warned Stern not to point his finger and made reference to not being a child.
After the confrontation, union chief Billy Hunter and Stern met privately, seeking a way to calm nerves and preserve the rest of the negotiations.
Wade biting the hand that gift wrapped a NBA le for him. Guess he is butthurt that Stern didn't give him the same treatment in this year's Finals.
Without superstars, the league is not a marketable product. The owners should acknowledge the value of their assets. I'm amazed that players have for so long accepted the unfair distribution of income between profits for the owner and wages for them. Reminds me of the labor management accord of 1948, where GM workers and the UAW folded when GM offered them cost of living allowances that took into account inflation, but in doing so accepted the existing distribution of income as being both fair and normal when in fact it was neither.
The players certainly have much more to lose in this lockout, and their often terrible financial habits do not help this much, but the superstars of the league are vastly underpaid for the value they bring to the owners and role players are vastly overpaid by comparison.
Stern realizes he needs to shift the marketing from star players to team unity. Lets be real here, it's the NBA. Most of these guys never attended college and probably have never read a book in their lives. Stern is supposed to respect them?
Just get another slave outta the plantation to replace these ones
I say the players are the ones getting ed...Take MJ for example...he played all those years a and didn't make a dam thing until I think the last 2 seasons...I think one contract he played on wasn't even a million bucks...The owners make money because of the product plain and simple...
why the you trying to compare salarys from 20 years ago to today? hey why not go back to the 70's where the highest paid players were making 100,00 grand a year.
No he doesn't, his hand is just being forced. The only time the NBA has been ultra popular is when it's had highly marketable star players (Magic and Larry, Jordan, etc.). People who think the NBA can follow the NFL's mold of team unity and parity are delusional. The NBA's popularity will start to dwindle if a hard salary cap happens. You're speaking from the perspective of someone who posts on an NBA message board and will watch regardless. The mainstream NBA fan is only gonna watch two marquee teams in the finals.
This post is spot on.
Also, why is a scrubb like Fisher representing the players when the superstars should be calling the shots. The superstars are underpaid while crap players like Fisher and others are way overpaid.
This post is spot on too. NBA is the only league where one superstar can make a big difference besides the NFL QB. The NFL mold won't change anything because superstars will always dictate which NBA teams are contenders.
NBA Finals ratings your probably right but season long ratings will IMPROVE with more parity
- NBA regular season is currently useless. You already know which 12/16 teams are guaranteed playoff spots
- This makes players lazy and only putting in effort on televised games
- Average Joe is tuning the NBA out because of the ''LOOK AT ME'' culture of the sport. Yes this year was a huge hit because the Heat were villains and people wanted to see them flame out but that only lasts for so long (1,2 seasons). People are tired of seeing star players get beneficial calls and players focused more on highlights than fundamentals. This is why the Heat were villains. Go a step further and look back at how/why Stern started cracking down on players not dressing professionally. The Hip Hop culture Stern took in and pimped for so many years has back fired. It's turning Average Joe away from the sport.
- At the end of the day mainstream America still views NBA players as wanna be rappers that never attended college or worked a day in their life for something. Focusing on teams instead of stars is DEFINITELY the way to go for Stern.
Players will half ass it more and give less of a about the regular season if it's like the NFL and you see 5 and 6 seeds limp into the playoffs then make a superbowl run. Unless you made it so there are significantly less regular season games (which the owners won't let happen) and losing one has drastic measures, the regular season will never be extremely popular.
Parity isn't the reason the NFL's regular season is so popular from start to finish. It's because having only 1 game every week makes it a lot more anticipated, the fact that there are only 16 games means every game is significant, and most of all, people will watch football regardless. It's a sport with big hits, a lot more physicality, and it's a natural team sport. Having the best player on the court alone gives your team a good shot at winning in basketball, you need more than the best player on the field to win in football.
The NBA will always be a league that lives in dies by its star players, and their big markets. Making the NBA a "team sport" with "more parity" isn't gonna lead to Joe Sixpack in Arkansas watching them more.
But maybe their relationship has gone downhill based on last year.
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