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Kwame Brown

Discussion in 'Charlotte Hornets' started by Thelt, Dec 13, 2011.

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  1. Dec 15, 2011 at 5:05 PM #21
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    Yeah, the only way you win as a small market team is if you draft a superstar and somehow convince him to stay.
     
  2. Dec 16, 2011 at 3:29 PM #22
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    That is what sucks about the NBA. Imagine the NFL if a small market team like Green Bay lost Aaron Rodgers because he wanted to go play for the Jets since the larger market made him more money on endorsements and the Jets could pay him more than the Packers could afford......
     
  3. Dec 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM #23
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    This is why the owners shouldn't have given in as soon as they did.
     
  4. Dec 16, 2011 at 7:12 PM #24
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    yeah, really. imagine if a guy like eli manning were to say he refused to play for the chargers and instead demanded to play in a big market like, i dunno, new york.
     
  5. Dec 19, 2011 at 3:09 PM #25
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    I guess that stuff does happen but not nearly as much as it does in the NBA. The Chargers have a star QB in Rivers and he is not demanding to be traded.

    Kobe was drafted by the Hornets. If the system worked right he would have been a star in Charlotte rather than LA and the Hornets would probably have been successful and still in Charlotte.

    Imagine if the Hornets could have kept Alanzo Morning and added Kobe. Hard to think that team would not have drew some fan support.
     
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  7. Dec 19, 2011 at 4:19 PM #27
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    At least they acquired somebody. This guy has not done anything but that alone makes him and upgrade on Diop.
     
  8. Dec 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM #28
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    well, without kobe's talk of only playing for certain teams, he'd likely have gone sooner. the hornets took him explicitly to trade him to los angeles.

    i think that kind of thing used to be about as common as any other league. what seems to have really changed lately is that all the players want to be friends and "team up" in fun cities to play in.
     
  9. Dec 19, 2011 at 11:19 PM #29
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    The problem has been going on for years. You have teams like Charlotte and Orlando who draft a guy like Shaq or Zo and cannot keep him. Dwight Howard is probably leaving Orlando. At least in the NFL you have a franchise tag so you get something for your best player if he leaves.

    It is bad for the league. If Bird, Magic and Jordan had played on the same team back in the day imagine all the great games that would have never happened.
     
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