Nalod wrote:14mil is not an awful contract anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Weathers
Mount Everest
Main article: 1996 Mount Everest disasterIn May 1996, Weathers was one of eight clients being guided by celebrated guide Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants on Mount Everest. However, he soon discovered that he was blinded by the effects of high altitude and overexposure to ultraviolet radiation on his eyes that had been altered by radial keratotomy surgery,[2] the effects of altitude upon which had not been well described at the time. On May 10, the day of the summit assault, after telling Hall that he could not see, Hall wanted him to descend to Camp IV immediately. Weathers, however, believed that his vision might improve when the sun came out, so Hall had him promise that he would wait on the Balcony (27,000 ft) until he (Hall) came back down to descend with him.
Hall, up high waiting for another client to reach the summit, never came down to assist Weathers and later died high up on the mountain. Weathers eventually began descending with guide Michael Groom, who was short-roping him. When the blizzard struck, Weathers and 10 other men and women became disoriented in the storm, could not find Camp IV, and staggered around the South Col for several hours. When there was a break in the storm, Weathers had been so weakened that he and three other climbers were left there so the others could summon help. Anatoli Boukreev, a guide on another expedition led by Scott Fischer, came and rescued several climbers, but during that time, Weathers had stood up and disappeared into the night. The next day, another client on Rob Hall's team, Stuart Hutchison, and two Sherpas arrived to check on the status of Weathers and fellow client Yasuko Namba. Believing that Weathers and Namba were both near death and would not make it off the mountain alive, Hutchison and the others left and returned to Camp IV.
Weathers spent the night in an open bivouac in a blizzard with his face and hands exposed. When he awoke, he managed to walk down to Camp IV under his own power. His fellow climbers said that his frozen hand and nose looked and felt as if they were made of porcelain, and they did not expect him to survive. With that assumption, they only tried to make him comfortable until he died, but he survived another freezing night alone in a tent unable to drink, eat, or keep himself covered with the sleeping bags he was provided with. His cries for help could not be heard above the blizzard, and his companions were surprised to find him alive and coherent the following day.
Weathers was later helped to walk on frozen feet to a lower camp, where he was a subject of one of the highest altitude medical evacuations ever performed by helicopter.[3] Following his helicopter evacuation from the Western Cwm, he had his right arm amputated halfway between the elbow and wrist. All four fingers and the thumb on his left hand were removed, as well as parts of both feet. His nose was amputated and reconstructed with tissue from his ear and forehead.
I'm sure at some point, some folks will say, "Hey, that really sucks, but at least the guy isn't dead"
No, he's not dead. He just was left for dead several times, spent what must have felt like an eternity waiting to die or suffering in some of the worst conditions known to man and ended up with ONE FINGER as the final result, not discounting having to lose his nose and parts of his feet.
But hey, at least he's not dead, right?
The road between "not dead" and being somewhere ideal is a LONG ASS ROAD.
The road between "It's not an awful contract anymore" for another FOUR YEARS and an ideal place for the Knicks and their future salary cap is a LONG ASS ROAD.
Basic VORP ( Value Over Replacement Player) principle - Can ANY NBA franchise get 65-75 percent of Rubios production at 20-30 percent of the cost? Or less?
