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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5410085, member: 966"] I generally don’t get into the weeds with pro contracts, but I’m not seeing this as a parallel. NFL players hold out going into the last years of their deals. To force negotiations for extensions or new deals. They may try to get paid commensurate to performance, to reach market value. I don’t recall anyone doing it out of jealousy of a teammate. Any pro team will have rookies and younger players playing under lower-paying contracts and veterans on higher-paying deals, and none of that is related to minutes. I don’t recall any college kids holding out because a teammate was being paid more for fewer minutes. The couple of football players who ‘held out’ or quit their teams did so because they didn’t get what was promised. As I said, I this aspect of the sport is a turn off for me so I may have missed some stuff. Let me know if I’m wrong. The bit about Donnie maybe wanting to renegotiate… seems odd. Again, I thought he was satisfied with less last year and I thought he/his family said it wasn’t about the money—so why would that ethos change now? And then there’s the practical aspect of no one knowing what the minutes distribution will be until they’re well into the season. They’re going to want to renegotiate in February? Was there bad blood on the team this year after Lampkin forced a bump in the previously negotiated number? I thought, also, there is a credo in sports where a player doesn’t get involved in another player’s finances. I heard this years ago from someone else, but there’s a quote from Steph Curry, “One thing my pops always told me is [I]you never count another man's money[/I].” [/QUOTE]

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