Marc Cohn sheds a tear

He even set foot in the finals again with Miami and got a bag for another year

Kawhi took notes that day

He did a podcast where he essentially said that Memphis didn’t do the normal due diligence a team would do when trading for a player that they intend to play versus a player that they don’t want to report (connections around the city, where to live, etc.) so he assumed that Memphis intended him not to play. The Memphis GM proceeded to tell the players that Igoudala didn’t want to play for them, which led to the tweets the players did at the time shading Igoudala for looking down on them. He says he cleared it up with the players later on but blames the GM for creating a narrative I guess to charge up the players, but it’s up to interpretation who is in the wrong.

Grizzlies fans are convinced he just outright refused to report, but according to him at least, that was never the case.

Maybe Lebron was right about Memphis…

I feel bad, just in general tho

“Nobody should feel bad” is some uppity shit talking about a dude snaking his way out of a contract.

Well no. He will have my empathy if something bad happens, but being unable to compete while under contract for millions is not “bad”. In other words, it ain’t that serious.

I mean no offense but that’s such a bullshit mentality. If you couldn’t trade iguodala, his contract would be less. Period. It’s not about morals or anything. They’re part of a game. Part of the game is you can trade them when needed. That’s part of his value.

I would agree if it was about something like a close relative passing or career ending injury. His team was retooling and everyone knew they would be making big moves and he had the least value relative to his team and contract.

he ended up manuevering his way to a good sitation miami by being difficult. Literally nothing bad happened to him lol

He made $186m in his career.

I don’t have any sympathy for which professional NBA team he plays for.

If he wanted to negotiate a no trade clause that’s an option available in the NBA. But his salary would have been smaller.

By comparison you can’t both assume you have a no trade and get the full salary you want as well.

they get paid so much because the league makes so much money. thats it. it has nothing to do with anything else

He gave up on Memphis too. Refused to play for them. Look at how Kevin Love has handled his time in Utah compared to how Iggy handled his trade to Memphis. Night and day, and both in the twilights of their careers at that point.

Yeah Griz made a mistake assuming he was a professional and veteran leader and not a baby back bitch

Yeah I guess you’re right he sucks so much he’d only add one win

You named yourself Tyler Durden’s alter ego so I figured you’d get it? Myers is a lawyer, cut throat executive, and corporate stooge who spends trips over himself to remind people he’s totally a person with a conscience any chance he gets. Me doth thinks he protests a little too much. And then Iggy betrayed Denver, started playing Mr Monopoly in San Fran, and snubbed my hometown and smugly lied about it the whole time. Dude is amoral at best but is more likely someone who leveraged his basketball talents to challenge his real passion: exploiting people.

Not really- even at his peak- he offered nothing but crazy shooting. A smart GM who wasn’t offering a loyalty contract would’ve waited to see if those splits were sustainable past a single season.

If you’re gonna offer an extension before the start of the new season, you price lower than a near max for the price of getting negotiations done earlier.

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Poor Iggy.