GustavBahler wrote:Wish KP would stop making predictions, especially since they usually dont come true. Ewing did the same thing. Doesn't help.
Announcements as such spike your "Q Rating" , i.e. the metric used to determine your marketability and brand worthiness as a "celebrity athlete" Many agents have marketing and spin media control firms who stage out the timing of press releases and how to let out information to the media about a players life.
A good example is the birth of a child by a pair of celebrities. That's worth a lot of money. The story, the photos, etc. Many celebrities will stand in one specific place, have photos taken, then ask privately to be left alone. Or they sell the photos to one specific newsrag or tabloid and then donate the money from the sale to charity.
While it's not generally in the public eye, Jay Z and Beyonce have a hard time finding elite security and private protection. Which should make zero sense given they are wealthy, famous and can afford the pick of the litter from retired law enforcement, retired military and contractors and heavily wired in long time professionals in the field. Everything they say and do in terms of public interaction and with the press is timed, managed and scripted. When you are that big, it's hard to hide anymore, and when you are that big, the things you do that send normal people to prison for life are impossible to hide anymore. And thus others around you have to weigh out the liability of being near you. Someone offering you millions doesn't mean much when you are knee deep in their messes.
Nothing Zinger or Melo say to the open press is just random.
That Melo has the entire weight of CAA and Leon Rose and basically a staff of writers and marketing gurus behind him and PR wizards and still manages to stay stupid thing after stupid thing in the press is pretty mind boggling.
Notice when LeBron James left Cleveland, he just kept saying dumb thing after dumb thing until he stopped talking period. People criticize Dan Gilbert. Who actually did a great job of hiding LBJ's general idiocy and douchebaggery to the press. Tom Cruise went " crazy" after he left his long time PR firm to let his relative/Scientology handlers handle his media.
These guys are reading off a page. Often they screw it up anyway. Sometimes I say on here, how stupid can these guys be not even understand the need to play basic team basketball. But maybe I am kidding myself as well, a lot of these guys truly are that stupid.
8/27/2017 7:12 PM