I miss the days when basketball players considered themselves basketball players trying to win championships instead of a “small business that is a cog in the machine of a bigger business”

As always, you all make it about race & “counting someone else’s $” & “everyone applaud Spence for teaching financial literacy”...

Nah. I just would love to see mentality be “if we go directly to playoffs, we’re gonna be ready to compete for a championship.” Not “pay me more”./1

Spencer Dinwiddie isn’t nearly as brilliant as you think he is. Carrying this year’s revenue? This year’s revenue is in the shitter. The risk to healthy young men is ~ odds of getting struck by lightning.

He got a $34M guaranteed contract, converted that into some investment /2

vehicle in violation of the CBA, tried to gofundme $25M for fans to choose his next team in another clear violation of the CBA...

NBA players are handsomely paid & I fully support guys trying to get every $ they can in their contracts & endorsements. But Dinwiddie has really /3

not stopped tweeting about his own $$ since COVID started, & IMO it’s tone-deaf at this point & shows an obsession w his own pockets over an obsession w being the absolute best player he can be & letting the $ come from that. No, you don’t get paid extra for doing your job /4

during a near global depression. If you’re not comfortable w the minuscule risk to you personally, don’t play. If you think revenue is up, you’re wrong. You have a great contract. Play https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏀" title="Basketball" aria-label="Emoji: Basketball">. Win games. Then sign a bigger contract. If I’m a GM I want guys about that, not just $$. /F