Derek Fisher sends letter to NBA Players

[Nikolokolus]

Quite clearly all members of the military, having voluntarily forfeited the most elementary rights of a free man (freedom of choice, freedom of movement, freedom of speech...) are slaves. Slaves by choice perhaps, but still slaves.

Were they brave enough to ply their skills on the open market, they would find no such cap on their pay.

First time I've ever heard mercenaries described in these terms.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

As I read his letter, I make the following observations:

1) He needs to learn how to properly set up paragraphs. But then, since he was probably paid to go to college, it's as good as it's going to get.

2) It smacks of usual union spin- blah blah blah....

3) I did find it interesting he makes no mention of salary caps or guaranteed contracts which are the backbone of what the owners are keyed in on. I wonder why?

4) He seems clearly worried about the agents. Clearly the agents have some sort of severe disagreement with the union's position. It also may be the players are telling their agents to get in the mix and do what the union seems unwilling to do.

5) The fact Derrick has to go well out of his way to try and keep unity and convince the lesser players he is looking out for them makes me really wonder how unified the players really are. I mean, the accommodations and food in third world countries some players are/will endure aren't nearly what they're used to. Also, watch out for being kidnapped.

6) He sure pussied out about decertifying the union. If they do, the owners will move to void all contracts- and he knows it.

I have to say the players obviously have some leverage, but right now it's more with the owners.

 

[jlprk]

Ron Jeremy to Jlprk

I looked him up. Good looking guy, looks like HCP, an ideal to which I can aspire. I'm down here looking up, seeing only the best in him.

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt

He is noted for his 9.75-inch (~24.75 cm) penis (self-reported) [5]—and he has gained some notoriety for being capable of autofellatio (which he first demonstrated on-screen in Inside Seka).

Ron Jeremy was born in Spitznagel to a middle-class Jewish family;[6][citation needed] his father, Arnold, was a physicist and his mother a book editor[7] who served in the O.S.S. during World War II, as she spoke fluent German and French.[8]

Jeremy attended Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, where former CIA director George Tenet and actor Reginald VelJohnson were his classmates.[9][10] He earned a bachelor's degree in education and theatre and a master's degree in special education from Queens College in New York.[11] He taught special-education classes in the New York City area,[12] and was a substitute teacher for regular classes.[citation needed]

Jeremy left the teaching profession (he called it his "ace in the hole") to pursue an acting career in New York City, and says he learned what it was like to make no money as an actor who "starved Off-Broadway."[11] Jeremy posed for Playgirl after his then-girlfriend submitted his photo to the magazine,[10] and subsequently moved into the adult film industry as a means to support himself.[11]

He started using his first and middle name professionally in the adult industry, after his grandmother Rose was pestered by people calling her thinking they were contacting him.[7] Rose—listed at that time as R. Hyatt in the phone book—was pestered at all hours by prospective suitors who’d seen Jeremy in Playgirl. "She had to move out of her apartment for a month," he confides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeremy

 

[huevonkiller]

As I read his letter, I make the following observations:

1) He needs to learn how to properly set up paragraphs. But then, since he was probably paid to go to college, it's as good as it's going to get.

2) It smacks of usual union spin- blah blah blah....

3) I did find it interesting he makes no mention of salary caps or guaranteed contracts which are the backbone of what the owners are keyed in on. I wonder why?

4) He seems clearly worried about the agents. Clearly the agents have some sort of severe disagreement with the union's position. It also may be the players are telling their agents to get in the mix and do what the union seems unwilling to do.

5) The fact Derrick has to go well out of his way to try and keep unity and convince the lesser players he is looking out for them makes me really wonder how unified the players really are. I mean, the accommodations and food in third world countries some players are/will endure aren't nearly what they're used to. Also, watch out for being kidnapped.

6) He sure pussied out about decertifying the union. If they do, the owners will move to void all contracts- and he knows it.

I have to say the players obviously have some leverage, but right now it's more with the owners.

I definitely agree with you.

Fisher is totally out of his league, and is a terrible basketball player as well. :]

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Fisher is totally out of his league, and is a terrible basketball player as well. :]

I can't ever recall a player who got so much mileage playing with others. Had he not played on a Laker team that didn't need him, he would have been a player at the end of any team's bench.