It really is time to bury the hatchet...Geeze, Danny tried trading Ray Allen a bunch of times---No C's fan should hate on Ray.
We waited 22 years to finally win another Championship, now it's been almost another 10--Ray Allen was crucial to Banner 17-!
Because he deserve it, Ainge saw his juda nature and is proved right
Ainge is as much a "Judas" as Ray.
In other words, not at all. They're both businessmen.
Judas to whom? To Ray? Sure.
But you know there's apples here, and some oranges there.
exactly. I hate the comparison of gm to player. The players are the face of the squad, the gm is a back office guy trying to make trades.
So?
Neither player no GM must show "loyalty".
Danny can trade anyone on the team at any time, and he's done so. Antoine, KG, Pierce, Perk, IT. It doesn't matter how much a player has given to a franchise, he's a commodity to be evaluated and potentially traded. Danny doesn't care about emotional bonds, either to players or fans.
Similarly, Ray is allowed to make a cold business decision. He doesn't owe an ounce of loyalty beyond his contractual obligations.
Neither is a "Judas". The guys who demand trades while still under contract? They're the traitors, because they walked out on their obligations. They signed a contract and refused to honor it in good faith. But free agents? Wherever they go, it's their right.
A player's job is to do everything they can to help a team win. So by quitting on his team and leaving town (be it for money, family reasons, whatever), a player is effectively turning his back on his job and his team for his own personal reasons.
A GM's job is to put the best possible roster on the floor so as to maximise his team's ability to win. By trading away an existing player for a better / more suitable player, he is doing his job.
That's the difference.
That's not to say that a player shouldn't have the right to leave and fulfil their personal wishes just outlining why the two scenarios are seen differently by fans. In one case, the player is turning his back on the team for the franchise it's fans, it's city. In the other scenario the GM is trying to make moves to put a better team on the court for the franchise, it's fans, it's city.
One of these moves benefits the team,/fans/city while the other dos not, so of course the fans are going to see them differently.
As a fan, this is how many will see it. When you are here, and you are playing through a shooting funk, or struggling with an injury, we still support you. We are still there for you. We are still here as your fans. That's loyalty. But when your situation on the team isn't perfect, you just get up and leave and bail on the fans - that's not loyalty.
The difference is that for a player, basketball is a job. It affects their personal life to a dramatic degree. For us as fans, much as we may like to believe otherwise, the success of our franchise really has very little (more likely no) tangible impact on our personal lives - so it's all a bit irrational.