Meanwhile, Steven Adams’ take on the NBA Bubble…

“It’s not Syria mate”

Modern day slavery does, like, exist. There are slaves throughout places like the UAE that the NBA loves to do deals with.

I think these guys forget that regular people making a fucking fraction of what they get paid get asked to relocate all the time. I have coworkers who have lived in 5 cities over the past 10 years and spend > 50% of their life on the road.

If I got paid 10s of millions of dollars a year, I will go where ever the hell you tell me to go. haha

Slaves are typically paid millions of dollars and allowed to quit anytime they want.

Please, point me in the direction of the slaves that get paid millions of dollars a year to play a children’s game and get all their healthcare needs taken care of at the snap of a finger.

What a stupid take

Well yeah you make what people will in multiple lifetimes in one year lol deal with relocating. To call it modern slavery is so fucking stupid where can I sign up for this version?

Especially weird to refer to the contract as something that trades are violating, when the terms of the contract, which every player agrees to, includes language which expressly contemplates the right of the team to trade your contract.

What a dogshit take, bro. 😅

“Modern day slavery” while making millions of dollars a year….

Ok let me play angels advocate, I get that the statement is a wild one when you are making Millions, and also because you can just quit but like think about it like this….yeah I can’t help bro, its a stupid statement.

one of the more braindead and uneducated comments I’ve ever heard an athlete say, and that’s saying a lot

I’m sure there will be those people in this thread saying “well actually he has a point”.

So for those people, fuck off lmao. This is some real woe is me shit while making millions of fucking dollars. And doing so playing a game. And if it’s that bad he can just fucking retire.

But ya man “modern day slavery”

This thread is gonna be civil right 

Sign me up for modern day slavery then, I’ll be passed around like a blunt for millions a year

Probably the worst way to express the real feeling that to these franchises sometimes you’re just an asset/contract

I need this fool to never speak again. You get paid millions to bounce a ball and throw it through a hoop.

There’s still actual slavery going on.

How is the transferring of an employee by an employer any different? This term is used way too often in sports and way too often misused

forget about the absurdity wage wise and that 99% of people worldwide would switch occupations in a heartbeat … I think what fundamentally makes a slave a slave is the inability to not work. an NBA player can retire anytime, and a vet like DS has more than enough $ to do so in luxury

I didnt know slaves get paid millions to tens of millions of dollars but right on…………what a clown

Modern day slavery as a millionaire? It’s a contractor position not full-time Dennis

Yeah I definitely remember the history books mentioning the slaves getting paid $50 million a year

Why do multimillionaires feel th need to throw the word “slavery” around?

Imagine being so out of touch with reality. Making millions and millions of dollars to do something you love and get paid/ travel the world and you compare yourself to slavery. Nobody’s forcing HIM to play, and there’s millions of Americans who’d willingly switch places with him if possible. This is just a very ignorant statement

Yeah, I remember reading in the history books about the millionaire slaves throughout the times.

I wasn’t there but I think It’s a little different

I too would like to be a modern day slave if it means I make millions playing a game that I love.

I know what he was trying to say but…..no

Fucking idiot

Imagine if a white guy said this lmao

I’m happy to be a multi million dollar slave 

Capitalism is wage slavery but most of us don’t have a union with a million dollar minimum salary.

I’ll move wherever my employer wants, whenever they want if I’m getting paid $15M per year to play a game for 8 months of the year.

Modern day slavery is the American prison system. Especially in places like Alabama

while I get he is frustrated at being shipped around, this is an incredibly out of touch borderline mentally challenged take

9-5 job is modern slavery too then, boss tell me to show up, I gotta show up, such travesty. Paying taxes is slavery. Any sort of responsibility is slavery.

Such a bad take.

If that’s modern slavery then make me a slave right tf now

I wish he would find a different more resonable comparison for his somewhat valid complaints about being a contract worker without any job security

bro you can quit, you can walk away rich as fuck, you can give your boss the bird on the way out the door

For someone who has made millions off the NBA to say some shit like this. SMH. All I can say is Dennis Schröder is an ungrateful fuck!

Such a tone deaf comment. 

It’s closer to modern day being a pirate tbh

If he thinks the terms of his $14 million dollar a year salary make him a modern day slave, he can always do something like manage a Taco Bell and be his own man. /s

I volunteer to be an nba slave.

He makes some points, but his union agreed to this.

The union could have negotiated for a CBA without trades.

He should take it up with his union rep.

I would love to be a millionaire slave in the nba

Modern slavery.. People making millions to play a game as a job everyone wants to have for a few years while living way better lives than most other People definately feels like slavery

Brother if living in one of the 50 biggest/best cities in the country, getting paid millions, and playing a game for a living was slavery, then why did you sign up to do exactly that?

Slaves were not payed in millions like you clown

i will be a slave for millions of dollars where all i have to do is play a childrens game

In the end no one should compare being paid to slavery.it is a truly awful comparison but yes.Capitalism is slavery perfected.employees are”slaves”.we all know this.thats why you unionize and fight for the biggest payday you can get or just try and outperform your competitors and fight for the biggest payday you can get.🤷🏾‍♂️

That’s precisely why you are paid so much. Well, partially why.

Cry me a fucking river, Dennis. People have real problems

You get paid millions and retire in your 30s.

Does he not know he can quit?

Says the millionaire. Some of these dudes are so insanely out of touch lmao

Kinda sounds like a job my guy

You can criticize his choice of words. But his complaint isn’t new, many players before him complained about this. And he did not complained about his pay but about how owners ( see the word here: owners) treat the players and staff as movable pieces. It doesn’t matter how much he earns, but he has family, kids in school and stuff. Being on a brink of getting uprooted - not by his choice - matters.

What an out of touch moron. Then take a pay cut to get a no trade clause. You sell yourself. Dipshit.

Lmao Draymond and Dennis soeedrunning dumbest mfer of the year award😂😂 it just turned February 1st, don’t get ahead of yourselves so fast guys! There’s still 11 more months to say some even stupider shit yet🤣🤣

Look man, if every team you’ve ever been on decides they don’t want you after a few months of having you, there’s a point where you have to look in the mirror.

I’m so not surprised that everyone in here missed the point and clearly didn’t read the whole quote

Yep, modern day slavery to sign multi 100K or million$ contracts, to be shipped off anywhere. Who signed up without a gun to his head? There’s a difference between a willing participant wanting to be a commodity and a person stripped from his sovereign land to live and labor against his will.

Bro signed a contract to be a “slave”. Dont sign and you’re free to do whatever you want. Its a choice he made. Slave to the money is a player problem.

You can tell this guy’s never held a real job.

What a self absorbed dumbass

Bro acting like normal jobs can’t just fire you either lol.

I could also walk in to work tomorrow with no job if my employer decides.

GOATED jerk

goddamn he’s gonna hate cleveland lmfao

Fucking moron I swear

Based anti-capitalist sentiment from the least legitimate, most outrageously self-interested and capitalistic source.

Maybe he can tell us about the shoes he wears 🤔

What’s with people wanting to be oppressed? I’ll gladly be an NBA player for millions of dollar even if I don’t have full control over where I can go.

99% of people that use the term “modern day slavery” have no real concept of what US 16-19th century chattel slavery was like. They can’t describe it accurately.

I wish I could be a slave like Dennis.

If getting paid millions of dollars is modern slavery, sign me up

Luka - “should have signed that contract” lol

Should’ve asked for Russ

Ppl really use slavery in the absolutely wrong terms wtf is he talking about

Poor guy.

Schroeder is a professional athlete who worked very hard to be where he is. I don’t think this fits the description of “slavery”. And slavery still exists to this day

Did slaves get paid too?

That’s fucking ruff 🔥

Getting paid millions and still complaining? Wow

You idiot

Maybe he’s in a bad mood since he moves a lot; he’s been on like 9 teams in 11 seasons? Make that 10 teams, since he just got traded.

that’s golden state warriors legend dennis schroder

Dumbass take. It’s a business and you have guaranteed contracts due to your players union. Trades are part of said business but you still get paid your guaranteed contract. And he’s probably going to receive the full pension, let alone a pension to begin with, due to his service time.

You have a right to your guaranteed contract and they have the right to employ you or trade you to a different employer.

Isn’t the possibility of being traded written into his deal - - don’t like it? Don’t sign. Play ball at a local rec court.

Didn’t expect the Cavs to kick off trade season

Welp, he’s probably lost any and all fan support now. “Modern slavery” ? Motherfucker, there are people making $8 an hour whose employers control more of their lives than anyone could have on you.

for context, he’s largely comparing it as a baseline to European soccer. In European soccer, the player has to agree to the move as well. His comments note just the lack of input by the player. He’s been in a lot of terrible situations which hurt his career

that said, his last contract is absolutely absurd. He should stay quiet and collect those enormous paychecks

If anyone has the right to be mad, it’s Dennis.

Neat tone deafness from a privileged and dramatic guy in a collective bargaining agreement lol

Im sure Dennis grew up around soccer and for them even if your going on loan you have to agree to it. Everytime you move from a new team you get a new contract.

Its a fucking job. You can quit if you dont like getting paid millions. You signed up to be an NBA player which comes with the acceptance that you might have to relocate for work. What a brat.

Why are we bringing up this old quote? It was dumb then and is dumb now.

Please enslave me this way

What a moron

You basically sign a contract with the NBA org not just the team.

haha i remember when he said this. what a quote.

My man is out of touch lmao

Buddy is a professional sport player and gets paid millions. Get a grip 😂

I’m sure teams in most cases will be willing to sign players to shorter contracts, even with no trade/restricted trade clauses, to help facilitate a player’s desire for security and/or flexibility.

“I mean, I never heard anybody say, ‘ I’m going to Cleveland on vacation.’ What’s so good about Cleveland?” - Joakim Noah

A solid reminder that many pro athletes are functionally undereducated

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It’s insulting to people in history that experienced slavery and basic common sense to compare these NBA contracts and their players to slavery.

I’m pretty sure slaves weren’t being paid 18m

Modern day slavery where you get paid tens of millions of dollars, work 8 months a year and can retire whenever you want.

Modern day slavery…u gettin paid millions of dollars bro 😂

Cries in bazillion dollars

People really just throw the word slavery around like that shit doesn’t have a definition.

I wish they would ensalve me for 48M to play a kids game.

We can tell that it is not slavery because you can quit your job, Dennis.

C’mon. No, it’s not.

what an incredibly tone deaf statement. Woe is he the man being tens of millions of dollars has to move from one nice apartment to another nice apartment.

If only we invested in education and not so much in sports

If you think it’s slavery then don’t sign the contract then you rich fuck

He comes across from Europe to play in the NBA and cries about the league and its trade ruthlessness , like bad luck that’s what it is, don’t like it ? Maybe play in a different league anywhere else in the world

Extremely out of touch comment.

I think he ment to say collective bargaining

Tone deafness aside teams would sign most top 100 players at the minimum with a no trade clauses. Which is more money than I make.

I would be an actual slave for a 10 years if I knew I was going to be let free at age 33 with 60 million dollars in the bank

Give me a NBA contract and you could trade as much as you want.

Excuse me but when you are playing for next to nothing instead of making millions of $ per year, then you can legitimately talk about slavery.

Dats tuff 🔥

Him fumbling his bag was one of the funniest things to happen over the last couple of years

Again actual modern slavery exists so no, pro athletes being traded on millions of dollar contracts is not modern slavery.

Suuuuuuch a flog

I don’t even care what point he was trying to make if you’re getting millions to play a game and relate it to slavery then you should shut the fuck up. Thank you

I volunteer to be that kind of slave 🙋‍♂️

shocking ignorance & arrogance from an NBA player