Also surprising is a guy openly pining to play on another team so publicly while on a 4 yr contract. Has anyone ever done this sorta thing to this extent?
And this is just my opinion but Goodwin did what you would want your agent to do for you. The goal was to get your client on a championship-contending team without having that team give up so much that they are no longer a championship-contending team. How many teams met that criteria? Heat and Milwaukee, obviously but after that? Boston? Warriors? Suns?
Has any team ever signed a player to a max contract and then asked him to shut it down during the best season of his career?
I have a tendency to agree. Miami with Dame is not a sure bet. Nowhere near as good of a team as the Bucks. Miami caught lightning in a bottle last year. Should never have made it past the first round.
No way. I firmly believe Dame wants that ring. He played for Olympic Gold with an injury that GPII wouldn't play a minute with. Someone who even with his own basketball court was still the first one in and the last one out of the practice facility I very much doubt suddenly wants to be a Miami partyboy.
It’s a good thing he will play 3 years for the Bucks and then come back to Portland and get one or it might have not been in the cards.
Nah. It was a complicated divorce. But this labeling of Lillard as a money-grubbing selfish party boy is not accurate or fair. Last year Dame was doing what Dame had done many years before, drag a shit roster to the playoffs. Something was said to make him not do that again. He agreed. That's what is not being discussed because if it were, I'm guessing, the league would step in a fine the shit out of the Blazers and take away draft picks.
I'm not buying that Goodwin pre-emptively went to Milwaukee. Joe played Goodwins hand, and Goodwin is trying to save face. Goodwin failed as dames agent and got played hard by Cronin. Love it.
False. Mavs blatantly admitted it and much worse than PDX by throwing games to make the playin. No loss of picks and a small fine. Going forward this may never happen as there's new rules against it. But those rules weren't in effect last season.
I would not be surprised if that is true, but that is certainly not a "fuck you Dame anything but what you want" and more of a "fuck you Miami for tempering", so I still do not think that Dame is right, if what the article claims Dame said is what I read into it.
How many recently-signed max-contract players have the best season of their career while on a lotto-level team that clearly needs to rebuild?
Agree 100%. And Dame is being loyal to Goodwin to a fault, IMO. That's Dame. It's why he shouldn't be able to nix personel decisions.
He failed because Joe got dame to Milwaukee, not Goodwin. Goodwin only wanted one place. Joe won. Dame won. Goodwin just looks stupid. Lol
