Why the fukk did David West turn down 12.5 mil to play for the Vet Min?

[duckbutta]

nikkas lowkey shook of the Spurs though. That's what it is though

We was supposed to be done back in 2011

shyt we was supposed to be done 6 months ago

Fast forward and cats start taking $10m paycuts to come get chips and now nikkas get all riled up

Wait to we get Embiid two years from now when he become another Hinkie pennies on the dollar cast off :scheming:

 

[Originalman]

Pop doesn't have set rotation yet of mins but west is doing fine and will get more burn in playoffs cuz of his experience
Also who knew what he was getting into pop don't sugar coat shyt

As far as play time goes against gsw he will get some cuz we have same rotations to match them up in any situation if he didn't get play time it's cuz matchup reasons that benefitted us too win

Yep pop the best thing smoking out here. Spurs a Dynasty so you gonna have to stab them in the heart to kill them.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Another Coli "I aint never made no money in my life so I am taking the money over everything" exposal thread

If there is one situation in this world where it would be easy to turn down 11 million...it's probably a situation where you already made over 80 million...

But coli burger flippers go down the street to the flaim broiled joint cause they giving them 26 cent extra an hour so

Quit reaching. This nikka just blew 11 mil to ride the bench

 

[twan83]

Draymond at the 5 that's a scary site

Gsw got it from the Spurs when we did it Miami and moved splitter from center and put diaw out there instead
Green and Diaw are similar

The mystery man behind the plan that helped the Warriors win Game 4 of the NBA Finals

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Thats what living in indiana for 4 years will do to you

This times 1000

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

The dumb fukk should have come to Houston

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Quit reaching. This nikka just blew 11 mil to ride the bench

He didnt wanna play in Indiana no more you non comprehending fukk. He's not riding the bench either, he's got a solid spot in the rotation and will get more mins

Like Popovich about to play a 35 year PF 20-25 plus mins off the bench in November?

Who else in free agency was gonna give him $11M? Better yet give him $11m and win? He wasnt gonna get both, so he went with the Spurs

Be mad though

 

[SoulController]

hes the perfect guy to spell Duncan, why dudes pocket watchin?

 

[duckbutta]

Quit reaching. This nikka just blew 11 mil to ride the bench

He's not riding the bench...but I don't think David West cares about how many minutes he plays

It's swag antonio...everybody rides the bench at some point the season

Leonard coughed to loud earlier this week and they sit him down with a "respiratory infection"

Somehow right before he got it he yammed Mason Plumlee soul out his body...and then soon as he got over it he yammed Mason Plumlee body out his soul

 

[I AM WARHOL]

He didnt wanna play in Indiana no more you non comprehending fukk. He's not riding the bench either, he's got a solid spot in the rotation and will get more mins

Like Popovich about to play a 35 year PF 20-25 plus mins off the bench in November?

Who else in free agency was gonna give him $11M? Better yet give him $11m and win? He wasnt gonna get both, so he went with the Spurs

Be mad though

I'm not mad but breh is obviously dumb . I don't care about him or the Spurs tbh

 

[twan83]

He's not riding the bench...but I don't think David West cares about how many minutes he plays

It's swag antonio...everybody rides the bench at some point the season

Leonard coughed to loud earlier this week and they sit him down with a "respiratory infection"

Somehow right before he got it he yammed Mason Plumlee soul out his body...and then soon as he got over it he yammed Mason Plumlee body out his soul

manu sore hip muscle but pop not playing this year he care bout the seeding it seems he not throwing out dumbass lineups either
Thinking cuz of Duncan and Manu retirement coming up and Aldridge gettin his chemistry right and sitting folks won't help

 

[ManBearPig]

Quit reaching. This nikka just blew 11 mil to ride the bench

The nikka can't play heavy minutes like that anymore stupid ass

 

[dterpsss]

"play" is an overstatement

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

And when he doesn't, then what?

HE doesn't give a fukk... what the hell is wrong with you nikkas??

you know rich people commit suicide right? so obviously money isn't the end all... what good is the money if you are unhappy as fukk?

from HIS mouth... he didn't want to play anymore.. so it wasn't 11 mil or the min... it was the spurs or quit


here a few quotes from the man:

on his bread

Since the start of his NBA career, West has been in firm control of his financial destiny, pre-planning a path to fiscal stability that began with his selection by the New Orleans Hornets with the 18th selection in the 2003 draft.

“When I came in the NBA 13 years ago, on Day 1 my financial guy and I treated my first year like I would never play another year,” West said. “We treated the second year like I would never play another year of basketball. Third year, too.

Eventually, when he had established himself as one of the better power forwards in the league, West began thinking strategically about the end of his career.

“At that point, I’m saying when we get toward the end, let’s keep being strategic and the last few years I’ll be able to make the decisions solely based on basketball, nothing else,” he said. “I think that’s just forward thinking. There are a lot of people making a whole lot less than we make that live comfortable lives so I’ve always kept that in perspective. So when it came down to year 13, knowing you’ve got more yesterdays than tomorrows, you say, ‘Take the money off the table … where do you want to go play some good basketball? San Antonio.’”

on his playing time

The 35-year-old West logged six minutes in the second half of Friday’s win over Brooklyn, then did not appear at all in the first half of the Spurs’ 95-87 victory in Boston on Sunday.

“If I was worried about that stuff, I would have stayed in Indy,” said West, who is coming off the bench for the first time since his second NBA season. “At this stage, it’s just not about that for me.”

hmmmmm a brother who saved his money... didn't spend lavish... and PLANNED to make these kind of choices, to make himself happy, from day 1


but lets keep going... i'd like to dead this entire argument in one post

“You get later in your career, you want to get into the position — and this is me talking to myself — to make decisions based solely on basketball,” West said. “That took a lot of settling down, being very patient, very deliberate with spending, with habits, things like that.

“Ultimately, I didn’t want to have to scratch every little penny out of basketball. I never let the illusion of the lifestyle consume me, never got that you’re supposed to live a certain way because you’re in the N.B.A. I knew very early that we have a short window — you might get four years, you might get 10 years, you might be lucky enough to get 15. But you still have the majority of your life to live, so there’s got to be some clarity that allows you to make decisions, figure things that are going to be important to you long after you’re done playing.”

In other words, West wanted more to recount in his old age besides “every little penny.”

He is known for charity work he does with impoverished youths in his native North Carolina. He drives a 10-year-old Lexus. But while West chatted casually, barefoot in the pregame locker room,

nikka still driving a 10 year old car, even tho he made over 87 mil... and you asking bout what he's gonna do after like he AI


b-b-b-b-but he should have gone to golden state.... he didn't want to and could have

West, Buford said, could easily have gone elsewhere — Golden State, for instance — in pursuit of his first championship.

Phil Jackson, the Knicks’ team president, strolled by, and he could have vouched for Buford’s revisionist modesty. Put it this way: Jackson was determined to bid for the 6-foot-11 Aldridge, who reportedly was not interested in the Knicks’ proposal of playing him at center, alongside the slender rookie Kristaps Porzingis. Then he signed with the Spurs, who have forever listed Duncan as a power forward.

so he signed AFTER duncan and alridge... he knew the role he was getting... still said fukk the money.. i want to be with the spurs.. i want THAT organization around me


i mean shyt... duncan is only making 5.2 this year.. you know pop ain't about to play them all season.. there's gonna be plenty of nights off and 15 min nights for the whole team... last year NOBODY avg more than 30 mins

dude is chillin, rich, living like he broke, and happy playing where he wants to be... let that man live

 

[ManBearPig]

Since nobody bothered bumping this shyt...