Their coach's reply after their PR guy tried to cover it upTracy McGrady, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton, Ben Wallace and Chris Wilcox did not show up to Friday morning’s shootaround, in what a team source called a “player protest.”
They can't even threaten them with a trade now :“We have some things, some excuses, not excuses, but absences because of headache and stuff like that.”
One thing that I've done for myself, I've made sure [I have] a business mind with everything that I do. And it's brought me a long way. So, when I'm finished playing basketball, I think I'll be very successful because I've started to do stuff now so that, when I'm done playing, I'll be ready. I like to act, so I've been doing a lot of work with different actors, voice coaches. I want to do that next. That's what I've been working on besides just playing basketball."
Why stay when they have Gilbert, JJ, and Turk killing their cap? They won't even deal Jameer for legit help. Plus the east will only get tougher while they are stuck with those deals.
He should come out west and join the greatest franchise in NBA history with the greatest lineage of bigs in history (Mikan, Wilt, Kareem, Shaq).