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DeMar DeRozan ESPN interview

MVP said:
And you guys should stop being sorry for the guy who makes $75.999,00 a day while playing a game for 8 month and then having paid vacation for 4 month. Give me half of it and my boss can trade me to Bangladesh for all I care, I would not cry about freaking loyalty.
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I can only feel sorry for poor people?

What's the cut-off?

A guy loses his kids in a house fire and I'm like "That house was worth more than $1 million, he's gonna get compensated by his insurance company plus the life insurance on the dead kids, no reason to feel sorry for him."

Humans are still made of the same stuff regardless of how much money they have. Same emotions, same desires.
 
oneye said:
I realize this isn't exactly Jazz specific, but there are things in this interview that remind me of DM a little, of the Jazz a little, of our issues quite a bit honestly. Watching this interview made me feel bad for DeRozan, and made me realize how much the Raptors f**** up trading him. I would hope the Jazz never would do a player so committed to them dirty like this. If you have a guy that's that good, and that committed to you in a place where it's harder to keep guys, and hard to get free agents (see us) you don't do this to your guy. Period. I would hope and actually do believe the Jazz would stick by their guy and wouldn't do their guy dirty like this. It's a bad look IMO.

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it's a business. It's clear you would never be successful running a business. If you want loyalty watch and follow college ball.
 
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Bulletproof said:
I can only feel sorry for poor people?

What's the cut-off?

A guy loses his kids in a house fire and I'm like "That house was worth more than $1 million, he's gonna get compensated by his insurance company plus the life insurance on the dead kids, no reason to feel sorry for him."

Humans are still made of the same stuff regardless of how much money they have. Same emotions, same desires.
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He can afford to have a brand new kid anyway.
 
I pass no judgment on the organization for trading him if that's what they thought was in the best interest of the team. Part of the business. However, the lack of transparency is pretty damning if it went down the way DeMar describes it. Always best to be straight up with people, regardless of circumstances.
 
tfivas said:
The funniest part of this trade is the total ends of the spectrums of loyalty... You had a guy like Kawai that people were complaining about not having any loyalty, than you have the other end where a guy like DeMar was completely screwed over and lied to.

That's why I laugh when people talk about loyalty from athletes, it's their career not ours. I've only ever been mad at an athlete once and that was Hayward and it wasn't because he left, only because he left us thinking for 40 days that he may stay.
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Fixed. And I am probably understating it.
 
What I’m essentially saying is the Jazz have a guy a lot like DeRozan it would appear (better basketball wise probably) who has from the second he got here for an entire year began to try and shift the entire narrative of this franchise and playing here. It’s a commitment not many players have, and goes beyond business. When as a player you put so much into your game and your connection with your fan base, it’s more than just business.

If Donovan continues to do what he’s doing (or Rudy for that matter)for this franchise, how would you feel if the Jazz did him dirty like that? How would you feel if Donovan simply couldn’t get past the best player in the world, and quite possibly the best athlete ever, and was traded in such a shady way after giving everything he had to the Jazz and the fans here?

There’s only one team that wins a title every year. There are only so many players the caliber of DeRozan or there. No way I’d be okay with what happened as a Toronto fan. I’d rather have our guy and see him treated fairly than what happened here.

I would rather have 2 decades of Stockton and Malone than see them traded to rebuild just because they couldn’t beat Jordan.

No when a guy commits himself to your franchise and community that much you owe him some respect and loyalty back as an organization and a fan base. Now luckily, and sometimes to a fault, I do believe the Jazz take it much more as a business with a very personal side to it. DL every time he is asked about trades automatically brings up how these are real people with families, not a video game and they have real lives. I do believe the Jazz consider their players well beings in this business, and I commend and applaud them for that.
 
Siro said:
**** championships. They owed him the basic decency of being open and honest with him.
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I disagree.

You tell a player you are talking about trading him and it falls through, then the guy is going to be in his feelings. Or he calls his agent and tells him to try and sabotage the trade through the media with leaks.
 
bigmike said:
I pass no judgment on the organization for trading him if that's what they thought was in the best interest of the team. Part of the business. However, the lack of transparency is pretty damning if it went down the way DeMar describes it. Always best to be straight up with people, regardless of circumstances.
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Its better to lie to them tbh when regarding trades.
 
Bulletproof said:
I can only feel sorry for poor people?

What's the cut-off?

A guy loses his kids in a house fire and I'm like "That house was worth more than $1 million, he's gonna get compensated by his insurance company plus the life insurance on the dead kids, no reason to feel sorry for him."

Humans are still made of the same stuff regardless of how much money they have. Same emotions, same desires.
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Lol wut? Ain't no one talking about dead kds.
 
And yes, people dying is the cutoff for rich people.

I don't really care if they go through non life threatening circumstances that inconvenience their lifestyle.
 
Bulletproof said:
I can only feel sorry for poor people?

What's the cut-off?

A guy loses his kids in a house fire and I'm like "That house was worth more than $1 million, he's gonna get compensated by his insurance company plus the life insurance on the dead kids, no reason to feel sorry for him."

Humans are still made of the same stuff regardless of how much money they have. Same emotions, same desires.
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And rich and poor people do not have the same emotions and desires. Just stop. They may share some, but they are fundamentally different.
 
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