Comments on: Billy Hunter made $3 million last year, landed a 25 percent raise during lockout

By: 618t

618t — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:06:51 +0000

While you have some what of a point don’t get it twisted- there are tons of people in corporations today with 4 year and masters degrees. These people are predominately sheep. Back biting, telling on one another to their superiors for perceived favors, sabotaging one another looking down their noses at one another, retaliating against employees. I could go on and on. Oh and most corps don’t have unions (unlike the NBA) and the employees there are subject to the whims of the ceo and board of directors who do not view them as people but capital. These whims allow employees to be laid off and fired at any moment.

The NBA players fault lies in the need to consider someone else other than Billy Hunter as their Exec Director of the NBPA

By: nokoolaidcowboy

nokoolaidcowboy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:45:37 +0000

It’s a great job if you can find one.

By: itsonlyaspeedbump

itsonlyaspeedbump — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:05:08 +0000

Sorry but a 4 year college degree isn’t going to help. A highly-rated basketball player that would be able to leave for the NBA after the season would be ‘strongly encouraged’ by his college coaches to take cooking and underwater basket-weaving so he can devote as much time as possible to the team. And by ‘strongly encouraged’ I mean he is likely to LOSE his scholarship if his coaches don’t think he is serious enough. The value of a free education for football and basketball is a farcical myth spread by the NCAA so they can continue THEIR scumbag business.

All this to say, if you think players should make sure they are informed when it comes to these matters, I agree. Just don’t expect them to realize this as a result of their “education.”

By: xxakshunxx

xxakshunxx — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:25:42 +0000

Maybe if these players went to college for more than ONE season they would have some knowledge when dealing with business negotions and such instead of jus tryin to collect a check and putting their blind faith into scumbags

By: tubal22

tubal22 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:34:35 +0000

The problem is there are only a handful of NBA players that are smart enough to know what’s going on. 95% of them just drink the union kool-aid.

When the union leaders question them (like Derik Fisher did) they get run out.

By: eugenesaxe

eugenesaxe — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 02:23:53 +0000

He couldn’t have just handed himself a raise, the players would have had to approve, correct? They got what they paid for.

By: therealhtj

therealhtj — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:34:13 +0000

Contracts are still guaranteed, salaries weren’t rolled back, and there’s still no hard cap. Teams are still giving out stupid contracts just like before. He did the best these guys could’ve hoped for.

Hunter is as crooked as the day is long. The guy’s a snake oil salesman and the only guys he serves are himself and the 20 or so franchise players. The other 280+ got hosed as usual and didn’t stand up for themselves in the last negotiation. Until they wake up, this will not change.