I was thinking about Tony Parker the other day when the news about his poker excursion broke. When he left the San Antonio Spurs I was sad because I thought he should have spent his entire career with the Silver & Black.
There’s no logical data to sustain this belief, it is more a romantic notion that a player needed no other locale to fulfill his professional needs. There were no greener pastures in the man’s eyes.
But the reality is that the NBA is a business and players move for a number of reasons- pay, location, and title contention just to name a few.