It is one of the oldest clichés in sports: there is no “me” in the team.
But in reality it isOn.
It should always be about the team, not just one individual player – no matter how good he / she is.
Enter it here and now.
If you think analytics has run amok in the sport, capitalizing on one player’s career is even worse.
You see it now more than ever. It’s all about not wasting a particular player’s career. Somehow, the team has to do anything and everything to make sure that a particular player wins in their career. If not, that player must move to a better situation.
Nonsense.
Often times, the journey and battle make the reward even sweeter. The Chicago Bulls didn’t waste Michael Jordan’s first seven years. There were simply better teams and players on his way.
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However, that idea is not accepted today.
The latest bullshit came from Golden State. Somehow management had to assure Steph Curry that the Warriors will do everything they can to make sure he wins the rest of his already great career.
General manager Bob Myers said the Warriors feel a responsibility to maximize Curry’s title window.
Not the organization window, but Curries
“We feel that responsibility until that man retires, or not on our team, ”Myers told the media. ‘You have to honor that.
“You have to do what you can, but that doesn’t mean that those opportunities are there every day and that they are easy to find. You are always looking, but that is your job. “
What makes no sense is that the mission of trying to win is based on helping Curry win. Hadn’t already set up the Curry team when they added Kevin Durant to a team that had already won a title. In addition, Curry has won three NBA championships.
Still, somehow the Warriors owe Curry a little more at this point in his career.
The mission must be that an organization tries to win alwaysAnd if you choose Curry, does that mean the careers of Klay Thompson and Draymond Green don’t matter all that much? And if Curry wasn’t on the team, wouldn’t the Warriors try so hard to win for those guys?
None of it makes sense.
Guess what. Everyone cannot win.
So if a team doesn’t win, that really means the franchise has wasted a player’s career.
But that’s where we are today. It’s all about catering for a single star player. That’s why there are two quarterbacks in the NFL who both believe their legacies are more important than anyone else’s.
First, Deshaun Watson decided that the Texans don’t know what they are doing, despite having played four of the previous six seasons.
Somehow, because he wasn’t part of the interview process to hire the team’s new general manager, he no longer wants to play in Houston and has asked to be traded.
Remember, Watson is the same man who signed a mega book contract with this organization after it traded its number 1 target in DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona.
That would have been the time to cry falsely and demand a trade. Instead, he agreed with the team’s decision and took the money anyway.
The same goes for Russell Wilson with the Seattle Seahawks.
Somehow, after going to the Super Bowl twice and winning once, Wilson doesn’t believe Seattle is working to secure its legacy. He has spoken out publicly against the team.
Wilson has never admitted that his legacy would be even greater had he not thrown that interception at the goal line to lose the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots.
And while Wilson hasn’t officially asked for a trade, he has hinted that he wouldn’t mind moving on to another team that he thinks is a better situation for him.
And let’s not forget James Harden’s exit from the Rockets. Houston certainly did everything to put other stars around him. They brought in Dwight Howard, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook. And while the team made some serious runs, it ultimately failed to make it to the NBA Finals.
They hardly wasted Harden’s precious years. Plus, they might have actually made it to a championship had Harden himself not melted in large spots under the bright lights of the postseason.
Sports teams just have to try to win all the time – and especially for the fan base, not just a player obsessed with their place in history.
“What is your responsibility?” Myers said about Curry. “It’s to help him win a championship, to get the best players around him.”
It should be about the Warriors, not just Curry. Today, teams have the wrong focus.