I actually spent time looking up information about Oliver Miller. Yes, Oliver Miller. And somehow, somewhere a man that once looked like he ate Charles Barkley, sparked interest and feelings from Career Development to the Miami Heat signing Eddy Curry.
The one stomach virus like feeling I am getting about the NBA is that teams who attempt to get their proverbial big-3; teams who can afford it before hitting luxury tax penalties have to look at the Eddy Curry's of the world to see if there's any viability in there. On the Duke of NBA Facebook page, Gen X Blair discusses how Kendrick Perkins lost 32 lbs to a svelte 267lbs and Gregory St. Fort mentions Eddy Curry's weight loss adventure from tilting over 400 lbs to 320-something. I do think teams in the NBA look at the standpoint of lineup construction as Career Development, taking out-of-shape NBA players, and in the case of Eddy Curry to the point of being out of basketball for a year, to possibly of being as valued as Jamaal Magloire.
Sports allow us to witness that when someone does something that jeopardizes their ability to maintain a career, whether it's physical health self-devastation such as Curry, Miller, Perkins, and even as recently as Shaquille O'Neal, who had to find semblances of healthy by going to Phoenix as teams treat these athletes as reclamation projects. Eventually, all athletes retire, bodies betrayed such as Brandon Roy with no cartilage in his knees, Yao Ming with deteriorated feet, and Oliver Miller who could not keep the weight down. Eventually, we hope that terms of Oliver Miller, we do not wind up with other athletes pistol whipping your girlfriends brother. See Oliver Miller's Pleads Guilty...
The career development of an athlete is very different from the career development of positions that the average person acquires. But, often over time, we have to consider who we hire and fire, promote and demote. For instance, I remember one time, where as an Assistant Coordinator of Athletic Operations, I was on my high horse, and was basically right about this one work-study student who's making his minimum wage dishonestly; he was not doing anything. And I said to myself, I want to make sure that I hire and get 30 people who would do the job. Eventually, I couldn't find 3 people because I could not find people who were like me. You create lofty expectations, sift through work-study students and eventually just wind up miserable and doing the work yourself at 10:30PM at night.
I think the NBA is lucky that for every Eddy Curry who's going to get the chance, if he's unable to succeed, the Heat, I hope will have some accountability, and allow Eddy to get his health back, not to mention his self-confidence, and be what many busted NBA players who leave High School to the NBA do...find a career that matches a skillset for something non-stereotypical such as black Santa Claus. Eventually organizations have to take accountable measures with their players so that they're instrumental in their employees career development such as telling Brandon Roy he shouldn't play again because his knees would not take it anymore.
And we have to look at players all-the-time, like the real-life person. Organizations as much as we want to be realistic or delusional need to know that not all employees have the perfect skills at their position. This is the reason why we get asked questions "What are your strengths?" "What are your weaknesses?" on interviews. Often, an employer is always looking to hire someone when they recognize they have flaws. Then when you have someone who has a disability, does those flaws make the hiring choice not attainable for that potential disabled employee. Unfortunately yes.
I guess when I listened to a B.S. Report Podcast from December 9th, I learned that this is winding up to be a situation where organizations are cutthroat; wanting the best players from each team, because teams don't have the KSA's to build an organization from the ground up. And then when a team such as Oklahoma City does that as the Phoenix of the Seattle Super Sonics, I think eventually that can all end when they attempt to make their big three trade, for instance dealing Serge Ibaka, Eric Maynor and three first rounders for Dwight Howard. Although I'm being hypothetical, and probably won't work cap wise, so far this season has been witness to superteam organizations. So instead of teams building sound, smart organizations in the NBA, teams now create markets to potentially destroy other teams. Hopefully, those teams who, in turn are the have nots have the awareness to rebuild smartly, replace these dumb teams, before they get swallowed in perpetual losing and eventual contraction.
Then may be we get an awkward looking team, somewhat disabled to win a championship; sort of like an old, awkward shooting Dallas Mavericks team who won it all last year, because they exploited the weaknesses of the Miami Heat. You win with the talent you acquire to build the team. You don't build the team that acquires the talent. Doing the latter gets you nowhere. Doing the former wins games and championships.
The one stomach virus like feeling I am getting about the NBA is that teams who attempt to get their proverbial big-3; teams who can afford it before hitting luxury tax penalties have to look at the Eddy Curry's of the world to see if there's any viability in there. On the Duke of NBA Facebook page, Gen X Blair discusses how Kendrick Perkins lost 32 lbs to a svelte 267lbs and Gregory St. Fort mentions Eddy Curry's weight loss adventure from tilting over 400 lbs to 320-something. I do think teams in the NBA look at the standpoint of lineup construction as Career Development, taking out-of-shape NBA players, and in the case of Eddy Curry to the point of being out of basketball for a year, to possibly of being as valued as Jamaal Magloire.
Sports allow us to witness that when someone does something that jeopardizes their ability to maintain a career, whether it's physical health self-devastation such as Curry, Miller, Perkins, and even as recently as Shaquille O'Neal, who had to find semblances of healthy by going to Phoenix as teams treat these athletes as reclamation projects. Eventually, all athletes retire, bodies betrayed such as Brandon Roy with no cartilage in his knees, Yao Ming with deteriorated feet, and Oliver Miller who could not keep the weight down. Eventually, we hope that terms of Oliver Miller, we do not wind up with other athletes pistol whipping your girlfriends brother. See Oliver Miller's Pleads Guilty...
The career development of an athlete is very different from the career development of positions that the average person acquires. But, often over time, we have to consider who we hire and fire, promote and demote. For instance, I remember one time, where as an Assistant Coordinator of Athletic Operations, I was on my high horse, and was basically right about this one work-study student who's making his minimum wage dishonestly; he was not doing anything. And I said to myself, I want to make sure that I hire and get 30 people who would do the job. Eventually, I couldn't find 3 people because I could not find people who were like me. You create lofty expectations, sift through work-study students and eventually just wind up miserable and doing the work yourself at 10:30PM at night.
I think the NBA is lucky that for every Eddy Curry who's going to get the chance, if he's unable to succeed, the Heat, I hope will have some accountability, and allow Eddy to get his health back, not to mention his self-confidence, and be what many busted NBA players who leave High School to the NBA do...find a career that matches a skillset for something non-stereotypical such as black Santa Claus. Eventually organizations have to take accountable measures with their players so that they're instrumental in their employees career development such as telling Brandon Roy he shouldn't play again because his knees would not take it anymore.
And we have to look at players all-the-time, like the real-life person. Organizations as much as we want to be realistic or delusional need to know that not all employees have the perfect skills at their position. This is the reason why we get asked questions "What are your strengths?" "What are your weaknesses?" on interviews. Often, an employer is always looking to hire someone when they recognize they have flaws. Then when you have someone who has a disability, does those flaws make the hiring choice not attainable for that potential disabled employee. Unfortunately yes.
I guess when I listened to a B.S. Report Podcast from December 9th, I learned that this is winding up to be a situation where organizations are cutthroat; wanting the best players from each team, because teams don't have the KSA's to build an organization from the ground up. And then when a team such as Oklahoma City does that as the Phoenix of the Seattle Super Sonics, I think eventually that can all end when they attempt to make their big three trade, for instance dealing Serge Ibaka, Eric Maynor and three first rounders for Dwight Howard. Although I'm being hypothetical, and probably won't work cap wise, so far this season has been witness to superteam organizations. So instead of teams building sound, smart organizations in the NBA, teams now create markets to potentially destroy other teams. Hopefully, those teams who, in turn are the have nots have the awareness to rebuild smartly, replace these dumb teams, before they get swallowed in perpetual losing and eventual contraction.
Then may be we get an awkward looking team, somewhat disabled to win a championship; sort of like an old, awkward shooting Dallas Mavericks team who won it all last year, because they exploited the weaknesses of the Miami Heat. You win with the talent you acquire to build the team. You don't build the team that acquires the talent. Doing the latter gets you nowhere. Doing the former wins games and championships.
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