"When I was a kid and fantasized about being a NBA player, I'd dream..."
about getting drafted or hitting a game winner in the Finals. Or maybe even getting an All-Star M.V.P.
But now as an adult, the sheer asshole in me wants to be the guy gets to opt in on the player option even though he doesn't really earn his money and the team, fans, and everyone involved would prefer if he's gone.
Also if I was the player, I would insist I opt in in person. Might even make an appointment to see the general manager. Talk about other shit. Who they're targeting in free agency. The teams direction. Then just say. "Oh that 12.6. Yep, count me in for that next year. Later, I'm going to 'workout' ." And I'll use air quotes around workout just so he knows I don't give a fuck and he should be expecting my 6.7 ppg next year.
5. "He wasn't going nowhere. I imagine when Joe Dumars..." In response to Reply # 4
picked him and Charlie Villanueva up to sign them contracts they were cheesing in that jet like Charlie Murphy riding in that time machine on the Chappelle's Show.
Amal McCaskill isn't doing much these days, but is getting paid almost a million dollars to do it.
A 6-foot-11 journeyman center who has bounced around to five NBA teams, to Europe for four years and to South America for another since 1996, McCaskill was sitting at home contemplating his future during the offseason when a call came with a deal too good to refuse: Sign a one-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, worth $922,000, and become a books-balancing footnote in a trade that sent Derrick Coleman to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Corliss Williamson.
Since signing the deal on Aug. 4, McCaskill never took the court and never received a uniform with his name and number on it for either team. The Pistons, in fact, cut him on Oct. 1, before the start of training camp for the upcoming season.
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