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Leonhart4 posted...

Part of the problem for some of these players is that the only way for them to get out of a bad situation is to make a public stink. You can call it unprofessional (in the cases of Kyrie, Simmons, and Harden, I'd absolutely agree), but they're also kinda stuck between suffering in a bad situation or looking like the bad guy in order to get out of it.

Lillard deserves better than to spend the rest of his career on a team that wasn't trying to win, but they weren't going to get rid of him unless he forced their hand.

Then he shouldn't have signed the extension. He had years of precedent that the blazers hadn't been able to make it happen before he signed it, if he had doubts then he shouldnt' have re-upped with them. But I do not find it acceptable that the mindset is "Well I'll sign it and get my money, and then I can force a trade if things go south." That's just not how I want it to work.

If I recall correctly, he didn't even give the blazers a reasonable amount of time before he started going on the way he did. Like, at least ask and give them time to survey the land, and actually negotiate with the heat. But it was trade request, then boom "Hey other teams, don't trade for me." That's not acceptable. I don't believe that players, even franchise ones, deserve both the monetary security of an extension and the freedom to choose where they want to go mid contract.