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udflyer said:
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700109616/Utah-Jazz-trying-to-adjust-to-life-without-Sloan.html
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Thank you...

After reading the quote not taken out of context, I understand what Williams was trying to say...

"It's just a tough situation everybody's in right now. It's unfortunate," Jazz point guard Deron Williams said. "We've just got to try to fight out of it and win some games."

And do some significant damage control — on multiple levels, for the team and for Williams, who's been linked through reports and rumors of playing a large role in Sloan taking an unexpectedly early exit from his coaching career.

"I don't like being in the spotlight," Williams said, "and this put a lot of attention on me and I don't like it."

Williams admitted dealing with that has taken a toll. A Jazz player hasn't dealt with this type of outside scrutiny and speculation since Carlos Boozer participated in his foot-in-mouth free-agency folly a couple of years ago.

"I'm a little drained. I can't lie," Williams said. "God does everything for a reason."

Corbin reconfirmed his support for the team's leader and two-time All-Star.

"Deron's a fighter," the new Jazz coach said. "I've always respected the fact if he struggled in the game, the next night he'd come out, he'd play well."
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Here is the problem with conspiracy theories in the NBA: there are far more unsuccessful teams than there are successful teams in terms of winning and going deep in the playoffs. Look at the rotation in the playoffs and what teams make it there. The Clippers have exactly the same market as the Lakers, yet they virtually never get there. Same with Golden State. Plenty of larger market teams make the playoffs and don't go deep or don't get to the playoffs at all. Was it good for the league for the Knicks to miss so many playoff chances when they are arguably the largest market in the country?

The disparity between the number of successful teams and unsuccessful teams begs another question: do you really think the league, in association with a few large-market and medium-market teams, have pulled the wool over the eyes of every other owner in the NBA? So you are saying that the Millers and the Maloofs and the Cubans and so on have no idea this is happening and so they blissfully plug along in their ignorance, trying to put together winning teams that never go anywhere while 1/8 of the league and the front office laugh at them while rolling in their pile of money? If they are in on it as well, then what is the incentive?

If a market loses long enough the stadium revenues drop, along with all the associated revenues (TV, merchandise, large-corporation sponsorship, etc.). The NBA is not popular enough (compared to baseball and football) for a few teams to carry it on a nationwide scale. They rely on strategically located teams to drive interest across the country. If the less-successful teams decided to hang it up and the league contracted to 8 or 10 or even 12 teams it would eventually fall apart. There is only one reason for league expansion as has happened off and on since the leagues inception: there are revenues to be had, profit to be made, from the venture. If that profit were focused on only a few teams so the league and Stern could control their empire with an iron fist, then other teams would drop out as their revenues shrink, especially as they caught wind that no matter what they would never win anything and therefore never reach their full profit potential. And lawsuits would abound.

Just like any other conspiracy theory it falls apart in the light of actual thought. Sure it is entirely possible some other deal was reached under the table during the Gasol trade. The Garnett trade is far less controversial, as the Wolves were blowing things up after years of failure, which happens from time to time with many teams. But sure it is likely that collusion in some form happens, just like it was pulled off by LeBron and gang. That is a far cry from a league-wide conspiracy to turn the NBA into a semi-legit version of professional wrestling.

And frankly I don't think Stern is smart enough to pull something like this off on such a grand scale.
 
VINYLONE said:
What about them?
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I just thought it was interesting to hear what Deron was thinking & feeling. He is being portrayed as Judas Iscariot and the poster boy for all that is wrong in the NBA. He is called arrogant, cocky, disrespectful.... We all have an opinion too and even though he's been in Utah for what 6 years(?) and we all can quote his assists stats and fg% and his salary per minute played do any of us really know Deron? Reading this made me think that Deron may be more human than we're comfortable admiting.

“I’m a little drained,” Williams said. “God does everything for a reason.”

But he isn’t sure what that reason is right now. A vulnerable Williams spent a postgame interview Friday holding a Christian book in his hands, Derwin L. Gray’s Hero: Unleashing God’s Power in a Man’s Heart.

The novel is written for those who feel as if they have a hole in their soul — those who have relied on poor directions that eventually led to unwanted destinations.
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https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51239946-76/williams-jazz-sloan-deron.html.csp
 
udflyer said:
When players can dictate where they go... Hate to see that happen.
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Comrades, IAWTP.
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