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SI<\/a>: NBA guard Dennis Schroder, exasperated by how many times he\u2019s been traded in his career, likens the process to \u2018modern day slavery\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Fewer things inspire me to get on a keyboard and pound out some words like professional athletes complaining about well, anything, considering the fact that they\u2019re all overgrown man-children who get paid exorbitant amounts of money to play children\u2019s games at an extraordinary level.\u00a0 And in this case, we have NBA player, Dennis Schroder, whom jaded from witnessing one of the most lopsided and surprising trades in the history of professional sports<\/a>, decided to air out his frustrations and compare the stress of being traded to being the modern day equivalent to, slavery:<\/span><\/p>\n It’s like modern slavery. It’s modern slavery at the end of the day,” Schr\u00f6der said. “Everybody can decide where you\u2019re going, even if you have a contract.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n First, I don\u2019t think Dennis Schroder understands what slavery really is.\u00a0 As defined by Merriam-Webster, slavery is:<\/span><\/p>\n 1a: the practice or institution of holding people involuntarily and under threat of violence<\/span> Last time I checked, NBA players, like all other professional athletes are usually not under the threat of violence, and furthermore, are actually paid wages in order to perform their trade, which in the case of Dennis Schroder, is to play basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know who Dennis Schroder was, and I was tickled by the fact that he actually spent five years in Atlanta.\u00a0 But I figured that he must be some scrub who has been hanging onto a career in the NBA and has mostly been living on league minimum salaries, which by the way, the NBA absolute league minimum is still $1.1 million<\/em> dollars, and more for guys who have the years of experience that Schroder has, which is to say that being an NBA player pays at the very least 1.1 million times more than what slaves got when slavery was a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n But in fact, Dennis Schroder himself has actually cleared the vaunted $100M mark as far as career earnings go.\u00a0 In spite of my initial thought that he had to have been some scrub, he\u2019s apparently not a bad player, having averaged 14 points and nearly 5 assists a game as mostly a backup point guard, which are pretty above average numbers in my estimation, and seems worthy of the $100M he\u2019s earned in his career thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n But such adds to the absurdity of a guy that\u2019s made this much money to be making the dumb comparison of trading players being akin to slavery, and adds to the narrative of the bullshit tone-deaf chasm between professional athletes and ordinary citizens of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n I get that he\u2019s probably frustrated that he\u2019s been traded five times in his career and has had to move now, eleven different times, but that\u2019s all part of the deal of being a professional athlete.\u00a0 You are nothing but an asset, no matter what management tells you, and when the day is over, you are available to be traded and dumped and moved on a moment\u2019s notice, if the needs of the business outweigh the needs of the asset.<\/span><\/p>\n The Luka trade was almost like a league-wide reminder that nobody is untouchable, on top of all other analytical reasons why it\u2019s potentially one of the most lopsided deals in history, but the fact remains nobody is untouchable.\u00a0 Schroder may be on his eighth NBA team, but there are all sorts of guys way more talented and famous than him that have been bounced around as much as him if not more.<\/span><\/p>\n Hall of Famer, Moses Malone has played for nine.\u00a0 Future Hall of Famer, Vince Carter, played for eight NBA teams in his career. \u00a0Apparently, the NBA record is some dude named Ish Smith, who played 14 years in the league, and played for 12 different franchises, having been traded six times.\u00a0 And even he still cleared $44M in career earnings, galaxies apart from what Kunta Kinte made in Roots<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n In all fairness, Schroder quickly realized the colossal fail of what he said, and tried to walk it back some and acknowledge that he makes a lot of money and is blessed to be able to do what he does.\u00a0 But speech has no undo button, and the media that recorded him will always have on record of him making his completely absurd remarks.\u00a0 And comparing the woes of being traded as a professional athlete to slavery is about as big of a fuck up as there can be, but he\u2019ll be lucky that the media is still mostly all over the Luka trade to give him any attention beyond the knee-jerk reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SI: NBA guard Dennis Schroder, exasperated by how many times he\u2019s been traded in his career, likens the process to \u2018modern day slavery\u2019 Fewer things inspire me to get on a keyboard and pound out some words like professional athletes complaining about well, anything, considering the fact that they\u2019re all overgrown man-children who get paid … Continue reading I\u2019m pretty sure basketball is nothing like slavery, 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\n1b: the state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n