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Lock out and Raja Bell
Posted by: Bryant Brown on June 30th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Today started the NBA lock out. Raja Bell was quick to Tweet stating “were not going to crack” in regards to the lock out. Im sure Im not the only Jazz fan that would hope to never see him in a Jazz Jersey again. Lets take a look at Raja’s pay for the 2010/2011 season which is $3,000,000. He played 2097 minutes which shows that he made $1,430.62 A MINUTE!! Or we can look at the shot attempts Raja took last year… 467 shot attempts… he was paid $6424 for every time he threw up a shot and people like me watching just winched when time after time he hit everything but the bottom of the net. Mr. Bell thinks he needs to make MORE money? does this even make sense!
Lets see the real losers in all of this business. How many people work at a basketball game that aren’t a player or management? probably hundreds a stadium? so thousands upon thousands across the USA? they make peanuts at these games but most HAVE to to supplement their income. They don’t lock out with their bosses… they are just happy to have a job most of them. Think about the families all across america that might struggle that much more. Just so Raja can make more and more a minute..
Get the bum out of here. Im serious. No Jazz fan should put up with this
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Don’t blame any one player, blame the players union as they are the responsible ones, wanting to add millions to thier over inflated salaries the now receive, no one I mean no one is worth the money most of them get. They are destroying the sport.
A lot of the higher paid players (AK) got well over one hundred grand a game. Do you think this is enough to feed their family?? A vendor will work their butt of for less than a hundred bucks the same game. But that is part of the free enterprise system. It will always be this way. But I think if the owners can make a little more money they might pass it on tho the fans. The players sure won”t.
Larry’s right, blame the union. Unions are part of the Communist Manifesto. Unions are bad news! If there wasn’t a union, the problem could be solved as easily as terminating a contract. All those who demanded more money and wanted to go on strike would consult with their teams. If there was a dispute like there is now, the player would get his contract terminated. He would be a free agent. Now some of these people might work it out with their teams, others would go to free agency and get picked up by another team, but some guys might have been out of a job for quite a while. They’d learn their lesson…fast! Unfortunately, with unions, that’s A LOT harder… The players do make up the union and those involved I do not support one bit, namely Derick Fisher.
You know you’re in Utah when working people are anti-union.
I can’t even stand Raja Bell. As a player, or as a person. My little sister has a better shooting % than him. What an ass.
Maybe you can’t blame a single player, but guys like Raja Bell make up the majority of the selfish and unreasonable union that has gotten us into a lockout(it doesn’t help my opinion of Raja that he gets paid to suck at basketball and be a cancer to my favorite team). The players act like they are just asking for what they deserve and that their cause is just, but they are just being a bunch of selfish, ungrateful jerks. Making a stand, really? What a bunch of bull.
fine don’t crack Raja Bell. It’s you that doesn’t get paid you moron. I guarantee the owners can hold out a lot longer then the players and the players will crack. They are so stupid, their bank accounts are going to have to get hurt before they think like businessman, which is what the owners have to do because they are losing money. Owners don’t give themselves 20 million dollar contracts to run the team and guarantee themselves profitability unlinke you players that are GUARANTEED profit every year. You players even get payed when you don’t play or get injured, look at what a massive risk that is to an owner, its simple it’s called risk reward. If you want to participate in the reward you have to risk more. So lets do a new kind of player compensation, Raja… if you score 25 points a night average, get 2 steals win 75% of your games, get 5 rebounds a night and put people in those arena chairs that pay for everything that you get paid not $3 miliion, you get paid $15 million, but Raja if you don’t make your shots don’t defend like you are supposed to and help your team lose and be a whiner that means you should get paid your $3 million in fact you should get paid a third of that. See how that works you idiot, you get paid no matter what, whats your risk? NOTHING so what should your upside reward be? NOTHING. Owners of teams are entrepreneurs and have multiple businesses like the miller family. They don’t need basketball to survive and profit. Hey Raja you take the risk of hundreds of millions of dollars each year and then think if the risk warrants giving all the money to you selfish players. Or maybe you can show up whine some more, brick another more 300 shots and still get paid 3.25 million next year. IDIOT!
Wow, with all the complex issues involved in this situation and big names involved, you take your anger out on Raja Bell. Thanks for the biggest laugh I have had all day.
Fans are starting to fester..
Raja Bell isn’t even a star and has this kind of attitude, it just shows what a canacer he is to our team, so yes DEB I’m upset with him and all the players tweeting we ain’t gonna crack. Their’s nothing complex about it. The players don’t have the risk in all of this and they want to increase their compensation? Did you not read what has been going back and forth? Derek Fisher comes back 2 million higher on average player compensation as a way to try and get closer to an agreement after the owners said this is your last chance of making things better otherwise we will make things worse on what we will allow. This is regular union crap that gives way to much power to the members of its union which is why this type of organization is a dying breed. They need to get rid of this structure all together. Taking my anger out on Bell is because he opened his mouth, but it would have been the same message no matter who opened their mouth across the whole NBA. So go ahead and laugh DEB I’m sure you want the players to make more money. Hey lets take Lebrons statement of “you all have to go back to your lives and go back to reality, I have my life” thats like saying you are common foke and I king James will always take your money and show no appreciation for it. These players are out of line. The owners have to be the one’s covered in all of this otherwise whats their incentive to have a team that not only can’t cover its own expenses but take from the owners other businesses? And as much as the big markets want to cash in because of their markets I think they should be able to, the only thing is they can’t cash in if small market teams can’t be profitable or competetive, who would watch those games where the big markets just kill small markets and what games would they play if their small markets weren’t there and exist? They need the small markets as well, they can’t just have 8 big teams in the league so something has to be done to make it a level playing field for the owners without going all union and take from the rich and give to the poor. A hard cap is the only way to make things fair. So again keep laughing DEB, of course I’m angry at players that come from the ghetto making more money then they know what to do with while owners lose money and threaten our basketball games because of it… Thats just stupid.
We should all buy Jerseys that have our personal name on it. I hate the players.
Colten that is an awesome Idea, lets kind of like Nike Personalized shoes, we should do that we would have to get a knock-off name to each team and design the jersey to look similar but not exact. I like it! I’m all in!
Jake… you can actually go to fanzz and they will customize a jersey for you. So you can get it to say whatever you want. I think highlighting Raja is a perfect example of what is wrong. He is a small time player that cant shoot. No team will take his contract from us. he is WAY over valued and yet he is stil complaning. this unified front from the players is just going to make a unified front of the fans not sympathizing. I usually hate “the man” but im on the owners side 100%. The basketball players paychecks come from the backs of the middle class. I have not feelings for them.
I completely disagree with this post. The lockout and the negotiations in it aren’t all about the money, it’s also about the principles of the game (franchise tags, hard caps, etc.) And it’s pointless to take your anger out on the salaries of the players. People need to realize that players make ludicrous amounts of money because ludicrous amounts of money are circulated through professional sports. They will probably take a pay cut before it’s all said and done, but I don’t know that they will crack on the other negotiations. Stop blaming all your problems on pro athletes getting paid too much money. If you really want them to get paid less, stop being a sports fan and take away the money that circulates though pro sports.
Agreed Bryant. 100%. It does 100% come down to money. The owners are losing money, the big markets don’t want to share their money which agree with but they need the small markets so they have to make it to where the small markets can compete and that means caps. Caps can only be achieved with money coming in where players are not getting paid as high and Fisher came back with 2 million dollar average per player in their proposal as final propasal before the lockout which was moving the wrong direction. Owners assume far to much risk and should not making their players wealthy while they lose money. It is about money and Raja and players like him can not get paid at all instead which is a really stupid thing for them. The owners will hold out far longer than they will and the sport suffers, loses ratings from fans getting fed up with this and then they end up making less anyway with the sport falling in popularity. It is about money from the players and big markets not wanting to share all of their earnings and redistributing the wealth, while the small markets need to compete but can’t from paying to high of salaries to the players and not being able to sell tickets cause they can’t compete with other markets and don’t have winning teams.
Kaleb im ok with you disagreeing with me but im not sure why the personal attacks are needed?
” Stop blaming all your problems on pro athletes getting paid too much money. ”
Im not even sure why MY problems are involved. I was just stating that person of Raja’s (lack of) ability making millions more than he should has no real right to stand up to the owner. he should take his check and meekly sit on the bench until he retires… no one is going to pick him up and he is getting a decent salary. That has nothing to do with my personal problems.. except that i don’t get to watch the Jazz play.
Bryant 1, Kaleb zero! LOL of course all in fun just stating my support for Bryant on this one. Raja totally doesn’t have a leg to stand on in this one. He couldn’t even be the guy we needed him to be which was a veteran that shows discipline, professionalism, sets a good example and hard work ethis, helps the team play smarter and develope the rookies… Instead he acted like a rookie and whined when he didn’t start, he took rookie shots trying to be a hero, he showed that he wasn’t a leader and set good examples for the others, so what are we paying this guy for? Maybe he made everything cool with Jazz management and Corbin but it ain’t cool to me. Like the song says Raja “Forget Yooooouuuu” and Jamison “Forget you toooooooo”…
Well, when I wrote that it was kind of a generalization, not really aimed at anyone in particular. But now that I read it again, it did sound bad, haha. Sorry ’bout that. But I stand by everything else I said.
I side with Bryant on this one. I don’t have a problem with how much players make until their greediness makes me miss out on a whole season or more of Basketball. Then it becomes an absolute joke. I am happy for Derek Fisher that he is able to pay for his daughters medical bills and give his family a better life than I can give mine in the future. It just bugs me when somebody would even consider complaining when they make 6,7, or 8 figures a year! I just hope I will be able 6 figures in 2 or 3 years of salary.