Arman is disgusted.
You would think, after seeing hours and hours of MTV Cribs, that these NBA athletes would actually watch the mafia movies that they always show off. But clearly, they do not.
If there is one recurring theme in EVERY SINGLE MAFIA MOVIE it’s this: Nothing is personal, everything is business. The Godfather in particular unabashedly says this multiple times and lets everyone know that this whole movie is about what’s personal and what’s business. Or rather, that everything is business until YOU make it personal.
Take Scarface for instance. Overrated movie, but an athlete/rapper/thug classic. When does Tony Montana start losing his mind? When he takes everything personal!
You can’t yell at the person paying your checks, you need to take that, internalize it, and snort it away. The moment Tony decided to freak the fuck out, so did everything around him crumble. All of a sudden everything was personal, even his incredibly cold, cocaine driven marriage to Michelle Pfeiffer. It all became personal, and it ended with him dying in his own indoor pool thing.
And now, we talk about the NBA. For the owners, nothing is personal. It’s all a numbers game. They don’t give a shit about feelings, nor should they ever. With the amount of money that they have tied into the league, if any of them were to take anything personally it would be a catastrophe. It’s like those of us that hate losing a bet, even though the bet is only for 20, 50, 100, 500 dollars, it hurts. So bad. Now imagine if we’re talking millions of dollars, imagine taking that as personally as some of us do 20. The owners have to treat their situation as a constant numbers game. The players on the other hand SHOULD treat their situation a numbers game, but CHOOSE not to. For the players, the NBA is more than a paycheck or even an art form – it is literally their life. It is what they are and will be defined by always. If Stacey Augmon went on to create the most awesome iPhone app of all time, 75% of male conversations would go as thus:
“Hey, have you seen this app? Stacey Augmon made it.”
“The guy who balled for UNLV?”
“Yeah, man.”
“That’s great!”
At this point, we have forgotten what made Kim Kardashian famous in the first place (IT WAS A SEX TAPE!!!!!!!). But (if you’re a sports fan, or aware of professional athletes) we always know why we give a shit about Randy Moss, Prince Fielder or even Eric Snow. Because they will always be professional athletes to us, and this has clearly gotten into the minds of everyone on the Players Union. It’s not about playing anymore – it’s about winning. To the Players Union, they are seeing this lockout the same way they see what defines the rest of their life – who is the winner, who is the loser? The owners on the other hand are seeing it solely as a numbers game, emotionless and (fairly) rational. The players aren’t bad guys, but they’re emotionally not sound people – to put it in the most blunt way. If you go into any negotiation expecting to win or expecting the other side to lose, it’s never going to well.
Welcome to the NBA Lockout.
At this point I only have one question:
When Keyon Dooling goes behind the Players Union’s back and tries to sign a deal, is it going to be Derek Fisher or Billy Hunter who plays Pacino:
I’m disgusted.
And playing Skyrim nonstop, it’s really awesome.
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