Re: 2014 Eastern Conference Playoffs -1st Round Discussion Thread
That's two different convos though for sure. If guys want to argue that the Bulls haven't spent their money wisely, I got no issue with that. But when the narrative for the last twenty years is that the Bulls are cheap/not loyal because of Michael Jordan that's a problem to me.
First of all people make that argument based on the fact "Jordan wasn't getting paid what he was worth" okay for the majority of his career the salary cap in the NBA was somewhere between 10-12 million dollars. Michael was making like 3-6 million a year. Was he worth more than that? Absolutely but those 6 championships weren't gonna come if we were paying Michael the whole salary cap like a lot of these dudes wanted and would suggest in their pieces over the years. Everybody just hears Michael was under paid and run with it as if we had 60 million dollar salary caps back then. The second we did get caps that high, dude made 30 million dollars a year.
As for them giving off the perception otherwise, again people just ignore what's in front of them to follow the lead of the narrative incorrectly put out there. They were ready to back the Brinks truck up for McGrady, Duncan, Hill, etc. they passed on them, so they had to settle. They eventually made some moves that got them Gordon, Deng and Hinrich. They had the start of something potentially good. Free agency rolls around again and the stars pass on them, they backed up a dump truck full of money to Ben Wallace's *** who proceeded to not live up to the contract. Which is fine because he shouldn't have been given the money in the first place, but when guys are passing on signing with you I don't know what you're supposed to do at that point. They backed up the truck for Deng with his extension a deal that at the time he got it he certainly didn't earn one that big but they paid him. They paid Hinrich, they paid Boozer eventually, they've paid Rose, Noah got paid, Taj is getting paid, cheap shouldn't be a term used to describe this team. Especially not when the basis of the argument is some **** from over twenty years ago.
That's two different convos though for sure. If guys want to argue that the Bulls haven't spent their money wisely, I got no issue with that. But when the narrative for the last twenty years is that the Bulls are cheap/not loyal because of Michael Jordan that's a problem to me.
First of all people make that argument based on the fact "Jordan wasn't getting paid what he was worth" okay for the majority of his career the salary cap in the NBA was somewhere between 10-12 million dollars. Michael was making like 3-6 million a year. Was he worth more than that? Absolutely but those 6 championships weren't gonna come if we were paying Michael the whole salary cap like a lot of these dudes wanted and would suggest in their pieces over the years. Everybody just hears Michael was under paid and run with it as if we had 60 million dollar salary caps back then. The second we did get caps that high, dude made 30 million dollars a year.
As for them giving off the perception otherwise, again people just ignore what's in front of them to follow the lead of the narrative incorrectly put out there. They were ready to back the Brinks truck up for McGrady, Duncan, Hill, etc. they passed on them, so they had to settle. They eventually made some moves that got them Gordon, Deng and Hinrich. They had the start of something potentially good. Free agency rolls around again and the stars pass on them, they backed up a dump truck full of money to Ben Wallace's *** who proceeded to not live up to the contract. Which is fine because he shouldn't have been given the money in the first place, but when guys are passing on signing with you I don't know what you're supposed to do at that point. They backed up the truck for Deng with his extension a deal that at the time he got it he certainly didn't earn one that big but they paid him. They paid Hinrich, they paid Boozer eventually, they've paid Rose, Noah got paid, Taj is getting paid, cheap shouldn't be a term used to describe this team. Especially not when the basis of the argument is some **** from over twenty years ago.
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