Snubs All Around – Every time an All Star team or an all league team is announced the first thing we see is who got snubbed.  I am sure in the history of sports as any any entity that gives out an honor or award there has been someone that truly did get snubbed.  When you are giving out a reward to 15 people in a league of around 400 people.  There will be someone that does not get the award that other people thought should.  It is bound to happen.  There are quite a few different definitions for the word Snub.  I am sure the one most people are referencing is the ignore or to disrespect.  That is another huge one going around now.  If someone does not get something they think they should have then they have been disrespected.

That is just the way things are now.  I am mostly ok with it and it is funny to see why people think that someone has been snubbed.  It is just going to happen.  Lets face it. When you are playing at the top level there are so many good players.  Heck even at the lower levels there are a lot of good players.  If they were not at least pretty good they would not have gotten to that level anyway.

Yes there will be players that played better than other players.  There is going to be some separation.   The problem is that when you have a limited number of slots for a lot of good players how do you decide.

The NBA has tied part of what certain players can make to getting named to the All NBA team.  When they first did this I thought it was a bit odd.  Since it is something that the player would have zero control over.  You would be making part of their earning potential based on people that really have no care at all how this would affect someone.

The all came about because Klay Thompson did not make the All NBA team this year.  If he had he would have been eligible to sign what they are now calling a super max deal.  The idea here is to give teams an advantage to keep a really good player.  By allowing the current team to sign a player for more money they might be more willing to stay with that team.  I think that for some players and teams this is correct.  For others it really will not make that much difference.  I actually think that the situation may play a bigger roll.

In the case of Thompson if he had made the All NBA team the Warriors would have been able to sign him to a 5 year Super Max contract worth $221 million.   Since he dide not make the All NBA team they can only sign him to a regular max deal worth $191 million.    Ok so he is losing out on $30 million.  Which to you and me sounds like a lot of money.  Actually for anyone it is a lot of money but if you are still going to get $191 million does it really make that much difference?  Probably not.  The problem with this whole idea is that the money has gotten so large that at a certain point it really does not matter anymore.

Where is the Snub in that? No where that I can find.  Snubs are just as subjective as voting someone to an all league team.  In any given year with limited slots there will be a player that will not make one of those teams.  It does not mean that they have been snubbed.  It just means that someone else got voted in.

Not sure that tying something like this to how much money someone can make is the right way to do this.  It probably does not matter since the money is so huge anyway.   It is going to come down more to where does a player want to play and how they feel about the city the team is in.

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