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NBA players sick of the long season
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Steve Chiotakis was the host of Marketplace Morning Report until January 2012.
I think it depends what they are complaining about. If it's just some aches and pains or a little discomfort, they can suck it up. I do think that they play too many games and also with the travel, this really impacts the quality of the games. With less games each game would be more meaningful, as with the NFL for example. As much as I love basketball, I'd rather see 60 more competitive games, you see so many times how the road teams pretty much concede games.
As I listened on the way to work this morning, it really set the mood for the day that i had at work. I was fuming about this story. Then i spent almost 8 hours assisting one person with their extreme health care needs that are hopeless, in part due to the crisis in health care we face. and i fumed some more. I thought about what i was doing,& i thought about other health care professionals and what they do to help others, at times putting a patient or client's need(s) above their own, risking their life and saving a life (you can also add others to the list - EMT's,firefighters, law enforcement...) Do we get paid what we are worth working around 2000 hours a year, many times "back to back", to protect health and serve our nation's citizens? No, and we go about doing our job because we care and we are there to serve our citizens. These professional players are whining! So much for taking my daughter to see a professional basketball game; now i remember why i stopped watching professioanl basketball, football, and baseball. You just lost a fan, again. Get a life and a real job!
In regards to the complaints from the basketball players about their long seasons and how they and management have to hold these extended season games because they NEED the money due to the high cost of pay to the players (and of course to mgmnt)is just silly. Just like GM and many of the banks, credit card and insurance companies who received TARP or bailout money,none of them are willing to do the obvious in taking less pay, toning down the cost of how and what they do, for the good of the company's survival or bettering their overall situation...the attachment to money and stubborness of people these days is disheartening...as it seems that the answer is so clear....I mean how much money does someone or a company need to make to be successful or happy? Greed and materialsm I fear are the causes of our ultimate demise as a healthy society. WE ALL NEED A REALITY CHECK...as we have the capability of ending so much of our challenges in the world if our priorities were in the right place.
NBA players getting tired and nursing injuries over the course of a too-long season? You have to be kidding. The NHL storyline is much more compelling - lower paid players, more physically demanding play, more serious injuries, lower league revenues, and more financially challenged teams, all in a regular season schedule of exactly the same length as the NBA's with the most grueling playoffs in all of professional sports. NBA players' complaints pale in comparison to the issues NHL warriors face.
