Its hillarious that people blame NBA players for choosing to play in better cities

[Carter_17]

I know that your town is cold and in the middle of nowhere and some superstar playing in your local arena would add the delusion that your life is somehow enjoyable. But those superstars are just human beings. They are forced to play in college for at least 1 year , without getting paid while their schools make millions out of them and after that they are forced to live in a shitty place ( Milwaukee, Cleveland ,Philly , etc) for 3 years getting paid couple of millions pair year while their teams make billions out of them.
And when those 4 years are over and they can finally choose where they want to work , you blaming them for choose to go to Miami, LA , NY because you are still stuck in the snow with hardly 40k per year salary.
All these in the name of "loyalty". But loyalty for what? For their bosses who use them in order to make billions from their desks? For the city which they never choose? Or for the fans who just use their achievments to fill their pointless and boring lifes?

Props to Le bron ( as much as I hate him ) for being smart and choose the easy path and not playing the loyalty game which only benefits shitty teams . Props to Kevin Love who refuses to spend his life in Minesota. Props to Exum for refusing to be forced to spend 3 years of his life somewhere he doesnt want to and forcing his way to LA. Props to Carmelo for living his dream in NY with milions,chicks and fancy life around him while having more vacations than other stars ( still more payroll than them) and more free time due to the lack of Playoffs.

[LoneyROY7]

[RagaZ]

Why is it not a problem in Football?(Europe).

[The_Night_Elf]

Props to Carmelo for living his dream in NY with milions,chicks and fancy life around him while having more vacations than other stars ( still more payroll than them) and more free time due to the lack of Playoffs.

[B4llin]

Players move to bigger cities because the only chance they have of winning a title is in a big city. How anyone can look at the list of teams who have won the title and think there isn't some correlation between the bigger cities and winning the title is crazy.

[Carter_17]

Why is it not a problem in Football?(Europe).

Because football is a complete free market. If team Real Madrid wants Messi he just calls Barcelona and make an offer. They don't have to include players in a trade nor to care for a salary cap.

[ForeverHeat]

Why is it not a problem in Football?(Europe).

Its the same in Football too. London is always a much bigger draw than Manchester.

[oarabbus]

So then OP why does anyone play anywhere besides NYC, Boston, Miami, Chicago, and LA? Might as well tell the rest of the teams to pack up and shut down

[BasedTom]

Why is it not a problem in Football?(Europe).

Because a random oil baron from Qatar can buy a club and shower its players and staff with millions of dollars compared to the competition.

The NBA has salary caps and other measures to prevent that. Though Prokhorov seems eager to burn his money.

[RagaZ]

Because football is a complete free market. If team Real Madrid wants Messi he just calls Barcelona and make an offer. They don't have to include players in a trade nor to care for a salary cap.

Yeah, but players can still put in Transfer Requests and ask to leave.

[MP.Trey]

They are forced to play in college for at least 1 year , without getting paid while their schools make millions out of them

No they're not. They could easily go play professionally overseas for a more than manageable amount of money.

and after that their are forced to live in a shitty place ( Milwaukee, Cleveland ,Philly , etc) for 3 years getting paid couple of millions pair year while their teams make billions out of them.

Getting paid a couple million a year for a job you love to do and the worst thing about it is where you're going to be living for the remainder of your contract that you willingly signed. Sign me up!

And when those 4 years are over and they can finally choose where they want to work , you blaming them for choose to go to Miami, LA , NY because you are still stuck in the snow with hardly 40k per year salary.

I'm not, and I don't know a lot of people who are blaming players for their team choices, and if they are, weather certainly is NOT a factor. And weather/location is obviously a factor, but if it's your main pushing point for leaving/joining a team, then you need to set your priorities straight. Being happy with your role on a team as well as winning should be your main goal. But if you have no passion for the game, then I suppose iot's fine to choose the mosty comfortable living situation over anything else.

All these in the name of "loyalty". But loyalty for what? For their bosses who use them in order to make billions from their desks? For the city which they never choose? Or for the fans who just use their achievments to fill their pointless and boring lifes?

Props to Le bron ( as much as I hate him ) for being smart and choose the easy path and not playing the loyalty game which only benefits shitty teams . Props to Kevin Love who refuses to spend his life in Minesota. Props to Exum for refusing to be forced to spend 3 years of his life somewhere and forcing his way to LA. Props to Carmelo for living his dream in NY with milions,chicks and fancy life around him while having more vacations than other stars ( still more payroll than then) and more free time due to the lack of Playoffs.

Loyalty is a wonderful asset to have. LeBron didn't leave Cleveland because Miami has better weather (sure it was a factor), but he left because Cleveland wasn't getting and couldn't get him the help he wanted/needed. Love doesn't wanna leave because Minneapolis is shitty (sure it could be a reason) but he just wants to get away from that shit franchise. Slightly different situation with Melo but same idea. And I never heard of Exum forcing his way to LA... any validity to this?

[Draz]

Some of those boring ass cities shouldn't even have teams to begin with.

[BasedTom]

I'd rather live in the Twin Cities over LA any day of the week. People have different tastes, OP.

If the Twolves made the playoffs and looked like contenders then Love might not even consider LA

[Carter_17]

Players move to bigger cities because the only chance they have of winning a title is in a big city. How anyone can look at the list of teams who have won the title and think there isn't some correlation between the bigger cities and winning the title is crazy.

Players move to bigger cities because life there is better and usually they can get more money with sponsors, commercials etc. If I give you 25 milion every year guaranteed for the next 5 years , you think you gonna care how much titles you gonna win ? Unless you believe in some kind of after life and you want to "provide for the others" and "return to the society" so jezuz will open the gates of heaven for you. If you don't you should be able to undestand that you are blessed for getting that much money without effort and the best choice is to chill and enjoy them, not to chase meaningless titles and build some pointless "dynasty". Good amount of money in addition with good amount of free time and a place like Miami/LA to live >>>>>>>>>> 50 nba champions and FMVPS while living in Milwaukee.

[RagaZ]

Its the same in Football too. London is always a much bigger draw than Manchester.

So that's why RVP joined Man United? Look how many players they've bought from Tottenham.

It's different in Football.