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I'd love to just VISIT Dubai, never mind get paid to play basketball there (though I'd love to get paid to play basketball anywhere).
Someone just better remind Ryan that it's a crime to have sex outside of marriage down there.
I'd love to just VISIT Dubai, never mind get paid to play basketball there (though I'd love to get paid to play basketball anywhere).
Someone just better remind Ryan that it's a crime to have sex outside of marriage down there.
or to get raped, apparently.
He must grow his beard and mustache longer
Time to forget about this kid. No wasting time thinking off wether he has motivational problems or what have you. If you go to Dubai to play basketball it sure as isn't for the compe ion but more then likely for money
lost cause. wasting his talent
Who would have thought that it is possible to land in a more obscure place than the Austrian league. I'm surprised that last game in the summer league didn't get him a contract with an European team.
Hmm, I would have guessed your new team would be the Dallas Mavs and not the Bucks, playblair..
Good. Hopefully Dexter Pittman and Hollis Thompson will get an invite to summer camp. Both dudes played good defense in the SL.
For playblair, it always said his team was the bucks. Which makes me wonder why the heck is he here...
Next off season, we could have as much as 6 open roster spots. If its a 1 year deal, maybe he can be brought over and play a season in the D league. He'd only be 24.
Dubai... proof that white folks got nuthin on Arabs as far as slaving goes
now there he'll get much better....
LMAO at this scrub, tbh, per par.
That time was 2-3 years ago.
True story.
A Richards thread from playblair???
WTF is this world coming to.
Has Richards had any 30/20 games in Dubai yet??
I don't know why people see this as a bad thing. Richards didn't force his way onto the roster. I was concerned that he would try that after he got a little momentum from his most-recent game. For a guy who's been chomping at the bit to come over, he should some maturity, which is probably his biggest mental flaw right now. And if the guy wants to play in the UAE for a year as opposed to Austria, I'm not going to hold it against him. If I had the choice, I'd probably pick somewhere where I could enjoy myself as well.
We'll see how this speaks to his basketball future, though. I imagine that he and the Spurs still have a decent relationship, since they brought him over for the summer league and he didn't try to force a contract. It's possible both sides agreed Dubai was the best place for him to play next season. You'd think he'd have some interest from bigger teams after his "breakout" game. Perhaps his basketball situation is better than I believe it is now.
LOL at Ryan Richards trying to force anything.
I have to admit that line made me laugh as well. Force requires effort.
Summer league is a show case, and not just for the NBA. While the Spurs almost always try to help out former draftees, I'm sure they also told him he had zero chance to make the roster. He was only there to get his next gig overseas.
I like what you write sometimes, Chinook, but sometimes you sound so terrible in your takes.
You think the Spurs "agreed" that DUBAI was the "best place for him"? Any self-respecting NBA team would balk at a prospect going to play in a league that is 10,000 leagues under the sea in quality. How does it prepare Ryan Richards for anything in the NBA? Utterly crazy.
The reason Richards is globe trotting and falling down level by level every year in his basketball career is that he is just not good enough or even "bad" enough, he is basically worse than every "before".
You and I disagree on Richards. I recall that you were pretty condescending to me in your previous view that Richards could not have dominant games at even the summer-league level because he had no basketball talent. Then, he scores 18 points in 15 minutes the very next game, and you pretend like that it doesn't matter.
I never said that he wasn't getting into worse leagues or even just getting worse every year. I do think his stock is the highest it has been since at least before last season. That he didn't at least begin at the level he did last year indicates that he probably chose to play in Dubai over playing in harder leagues for some reason. It could be because he's too mentally weak for harder compe ion, and the Spurs just want to see if he can stick with a team for a full year now. But don't mistake my offering that there could be an agreement between the Spurs and Richards on Dubai as me endorsing the decision for basketball reasons. I said in the post you quoted that I didn't think it was a good league.
If he chose money over compe ive level as was suggested earlier in the thread, then I don't blame him, as he really has no guarantee he'd ever get to the NBA to make back the money. And if he went just for the experience for living in the UAE, I said I understand. If I could be paid to play basketball for a few months in one of the greatest cities in the world, I'd consider going for it as well. If he chose Dubai because literally no one could better would take him, then that's distressing for his future.
Sure, but they almost certainly told McClinton that, too. That doesn't have to stop Richards from signing a tender and allowing himself to piddle around in the d-league for a few years. You'd think that he'd've gotten a slightly better gig overseas than Dubai, but I guess not.
If the Spurs have really given up on him, then he should force their hand. He may suck as badly as a lot of you guys say he does, but he'd get a couple of 10-days this season, which would probably end up paying him as much as he'd get in the low-quality leagues he's slated to play in. He at least has decent tape in the US now, and teams will give him at least a couple of chances.
I never want or mean to sound condescending to you personally. Perhaps, I am condescending of your views, sometimes, but I think they deserve it in the case of Ryan Richards. You say that a 18 point explosion in 15 minutes in a dead rubber against a summer league squad is a testament of some prowess in Richards. The sum & substance of Ryan Richards' career is that he is nowhere close to being a NBA player, a random outburst in a dead rubber apart. And that every season, he regresses enough to be good enough to compete at lower and lower levels.
Your justification of that is ridiculous. There is nothing understandable in a player who wants to play in the NBA to continue to regress and seek lower and lower leagues for a mythical redemption of any kind.
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