ShamSports.com - Talking about people playing with their balls: Why aren’t NBA players loyal?
The irony is that Jones’ contract would not have even been expiring, had he not declined the player option 16 months before he needed to make a decision.

So Fred’s loyal move towards the Blazers, giving up a year of multi million salary and a year of almost-certain employment just to be able to join them, has now left him perilously close to a situation in which he could be out of the league altogether, only 16 months after signing a three year deal.

Wouldn’t happen in the real world, let me tell you.

And that’s why the players are loyal to themselves first and truly foremost. Fred turned down $3.5 million in an act of charity, yet now, if worst comes to the worst, he won’t even earn $100,000 in the D-League next season, should he get stuck there.

Poor bastard, in both senses of the word “poor”.

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