fishmike wrote:the props will or wont come in the future. This just some guys spinning wheels and blowing air. People need to get over themselves and realize this is what happens with impact players. They get money. Lots of it. Hell... the league is full of guys being paid like stars because someone saw they have potential to be impact players. This is the nature of the game and the business, and everyone in sports takes the money. Everyone. Please get over the "be like Tim Duncan" who took less at 36 years old after making $200mm but yea.. he's the ultimate sacrificer. People put their personal feelings into it and come off silly. Most of these guys get one chance in life to make this kind of money.

Ask Iverson if he could use an extra $6-$7mm right now.

As you admitted yourself, that 6-7 million does not matter because Iverson would blow it all away in days. It would not matter how much money he made. 200 million, 300 million, habits are habits. Iverson's problem is that he didn't know how to use money, not that he didn't have enough! Iverson's situation is not a logical argument to support players taking the max amount; when dealing with players with spending habits that poor, it is completely irrelevant how much money they make, all that will be affected is the amount of months before they go broke.

I'm not saying Melo is a villain for taking what he did, I just really hate the Iverson example in this context.