Cuaycong has been writing Courtside since BusinessWorld introduced a Sports section in 1994.
In the NBA, addition by subtraction is real - and Morey knows it.Īnthony L. The longer the situation drags out, the more the wounds will fester. It doesn’t matter if they get pennies to the dollar in the process. In any organization, the worst kind of employee is that who feels he is being forced to stay he becomes even more of a liability by being around rather than if he remained away.Īt this point, the Sixers have no choice. Imagine what he can and will produce with his heart not in his job. What if he felt the heat and found himself compelled to suit up? Does Rivers really think he will be in the proper frame of mind to give his all? It’s precisely because he proved to be nowhere near his best when though he was fully committed that the poop hit the fan in the first place. The risk, of course, is in Simmons calling the Sixers’ bluff. And if they make like they want him back, it’s only because they’re trying to prop up his trade value. President of basketball operations Daryl Morey and head coach Doc Rivers both know they’re way past the point of no return. It isn’t simply that he got hurt by the immediate reaction to his poor performance in the 2021 Playoffs to the point of burning bridges it’s that he can no longer stomach playing in front of hostile fans he feels should have had his back instead. The bottom line is that Simmons no longer wants any part of the Sixers. In fact, by all accounts, he figured there would be an impasse, and already expressed willingness to forego any earnings due him if it means getting his point across. Then again, it’s not as if he did not anticipate things coming to a head. The carrot did not work hopefully, the stick will. Which, needless to say, is part and parcel of the negotiating playbook. The intent is clear: The Sixers want him to report for work as soon as possible, and they will be deducting from the withheld salary any and all fines he incurs until he does. The amount is no small potatoes at $8.25 million, it represents a quarter of Simmons’ pay for the year. By weekend, however, they began taking a more hardline approach following a declaration from the National Basketball Association (NBA) front office underscoring no-work, no-pay provisions in the uniform players contract, they held in escrow the second tranche of the three-time All-Star’s salary. Stalwarts of the red, white, and blue spent Media Day noting just about any which way that Ben Simmons continues to be an integral part of their campaign for the title, never mind his scorched-earth stance. The week began with the Sixers continuing to say the right things, at least in public. (See picture below.) The player will first have to say this addition fact out loud, along with the correct answer in order to move their piece to that square.What a difference a handful of days makes. The opponent should check their answer with calculator to see whether it's right or wrong.įor example, player 1 starts the game and decides they want to move their checker to the square that says "9 + 6 ". The player must answer the math fact correctly in order to jump over their opponent's piece to the empty square. A player captures another player's piece by jumping over the opponent's piece to an empty square just beyond the piece they're trying to capture.
Otherwise they stay at their current square. T he player must answer the math fact of the empty square correctly in order to to the new square. The first player starts by moving one of his or her pieces forward diagonally one space to an empty gray square.
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