Kevin Durant and King James speak on Old heads talking down on the new generation

[Illuminatos]

they then went on the rest of the episode to say how poor the play has been this year, and kept taking it further

Shaq is a goofy for that.

 

[Houston911]

Buying power was different in the 80s/90s

Mvp salary from 94 after being adjusted for inflation is still 30 percent less than the mid level exception today. They shouldn’t take their frustrations out on today’s players but the buying power stuff is just flat out inaccurate if you’re trying to explain the salary differences

Players in the 90s/early 2000s should have been pushing to adjust the CBA to allocate a bigger portion of the revenue to player pensions. You could see salaries trending higher but I’m sure none of them ever thought they’d see salaries this high

 

[Loose]

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Mvp salary from 94 after being adjusted for inflation is still 30 percent less than the mid level exception today. They shouldn’t take their frustrations out on today’s players but the buying power stuff is just flat out inaccurate if you’re trying to explain the salary differences

Players in the 90s/early 2000s should have been pushing to adjust the CBA to allocate a bigger portion of the revenue to player pensions. You could see salaries trending higher but I’m sure none of them ever thought they’d see salaries this high

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...-future/198bd65f-4062-4372-95e4-388b22c77666/

 

[FTBS]

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Mvp salary from 94 after being adjusted for inflation is still 30 percent less than the mid level exception today. They shouldn’t take their frustrations out on today’s players but the buying power stuff is just flat out inaccurate if you’re trying to explain the salary differences

Players in the 90s/early 2000s should have been pushing to adjust the CBA to allocate a bigger portion of the revenue to player pensions. You could see salaries trending higher but I’m sure none of them ever thought they’d see salaries this high

Only thing stopping them from getting more money was them. Jordan got 30 mil almost 25 years ago. Shaq and KG broke the bank with deals that just recently stopped being the standard. There was no limit on what a guy could make. If anything, younger guys should be mad at them for allowing the max salary that depressed wages for 2 decades to put in place.

 

[Houston911]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...-future/198bd65f-4062-4372-95e4-388b22c77666/

what does any of this have to do with what you said (buying power)?

 

[SadimirPutin]

Yes, but thats just going to be LeBron protecting LeBron. His assessments are never accurate. He's all about himself and his legacy.

lol wtf are you talking about

 

[Houston911]

Only thing stopping them from getting more money was them. Jordan got 30 mil almost 25 years ago. Shaq and KG broke the bank with deals that just recently stopped being the standard. There was no limit on what a guy could make. If anything, younger guys should be mad at them for allowing the max salary that depressed wages for 2 decades to put in place.

max salaries depress wages for a very small percentage of players and they inflate wages for the majority of the league (assuming we still have a salary cap)

I’m anti max salaries

 

[SadimirPutin]

The coli agreeing with what Shaq did is on brand...

 

[SadimirPutin]

By the way....being an OG doesnt make you right......

OG's wanting deference and respect without reciprocation on their part is some laughable nonsense....

 

[Loose]

what does any of this have to do with what you said (buying power)?

I was referring to the league and the players when I said buying power

 

[staticshock]

Its one thing for Wilt to do it, but its another for a culture to be built around it.

wilt was a one off at his time. He wasnt on weekly telling folks how the game wasnt shyt.

i’ll never forget two years ago where Westbrook had a run of triple doubles and some hating ass reporter asked MJ a slanted ass question comparing Westbrook’s streak to his streak of ships.

NBA media culture is also trash

nfl coach hiring process is also trash

 

[NYC Rebel]

nfl coach hiring process is also trash

Heres a simple thing for me.

i can say both the NFL hiring is trash and the NBA coverage is garbage.

For a simple minded jughead like you, its either or.

and thats sad

 

[Kenny West]

This is an NBA issue not an old school player issue.

The NBA as a collective allowed this for so long, now the chickens have...well you know the rest.

Stop marketing stars over teams and you’ll fix the problem.

Also the players love the attention but only when it’s positive. Lebron being offended is laughable. He has something to gain with the players over teams narrative.

The players look soft because they are only concerned with a few media air heads rather than the millions who love them. Same thing that makes you laugh makes you cry.

Damn I wasnt gonna weigh in but this is what I feel it is.

NBA & fans worship players and have made this pulling rank habit in them circles and Shaq will pull rank on anyone via rings Jalen Rose does this with non professional player co-anchors.

I think yall are hitting the right note

NFL analyst dont have that type of culture past the Deion-Irvin-Sapp NFL Network days. But more importantly even the Booger McFarlands watch game tape and provide insight on unheralded players.

Shaq doing his job as a media personality albeit a bad job as an analyst. What Shaq doing isnt new, old school players had to deal with shock jocks, the skip baylesses in journalism or local sports writer haters. They could only respond through play/interviews.

On Tv Shaq personality is such that he is defensive by nature and will always pull rank. Cause he been moving like that his whole career. "Im a star player, I can do what I want. If I'm wrong why dont you have the rings/success I do? Guess im not wrong"

shyt is embedded in folks head now. Its toxic but they dont wanna loose the hijinks element of Shaq and Chuck either

 

[Edub]

they then went on the rest of the episode to say how poor the play has been this year, and kept taking it further

The only thing that can kill that show is them becoming old bitter and outta touch.......






And they are doing exactly that









these young guns are ballin, just check what colin Sexton did to some vets these last two games......

 

[Kaypain]

I agree with Bron. It's never constructive criticism. It's stuff that's mostly emotional, and always when the young guys are doing something great.

Like when Oscar Robertson woke up one day and spoke out for the first time in forever just so he could shyt on Steph Curry during his 2016 season. Like, you really think the players now wouldn't adjust to the old days? You really think they wouldn't get used to the contact and adjust? And is that the only thing you can say when these players are showing insane skills that makes up for any rule changes (which are exaggerated).

You don't see NFL players shyt on modern guys nearly as much as NBA oldheads do.

The old heads also lack self-awareness. All the arguments they make ("the league is soft" "the players are ungrateful and earn a lot" "no defense") were usually all said about them.

At least Tim Duncan was constructive. He talked about the post game declining and unfair officiating. That's actually constructive. Not baiting someone on live television just to get a response.

The Post play died when Tim Duncan retired. And it hasn't been right since