Anthony’s Opening Diatribe- Do We Appreciate Superstars Enough?
See what Anthony Gargano said in his Opening Diatribe this morning…
I want to say that it is a fallacy that we run superstars out of town. If you go all the way back to Barkley. Barkley didn’t get run out of town. It was the team sucking. That is why he wanted out. because they were horrible. They were horribly managed, they were a bad team, and he wanted to escape. And we covered the Donovan thing. We didn’t run him out of town. He flamed out early. Andy knew it. And Andy traded him to Washington. It was just that draft day thing.
I don’t think we run guys out of town. That is a fallacy. However, do we appreciate the Superstars? This is a conversation we have had throughout the years. But yesterday Joel Embiid said to Yahoo “they want to trade me.”
You could say he is being sensitive, it is not everybody. And it is partly true. However, we don’t appreciate our Superstars. And he is a Superstar. It makes to want to trade Joel Embiid. That’s ridiculous. Then you are going right back into the process, and who knows when you get out of that. It’s stupid. And he is a Superstar. He is a transcendent talent…
I know we have a love affair with Bryce Harper now. But when he got here it was not a love affair. “Got all that money, stinks, not even clutch.” There was a lot of that his first year, and into his 2nd year. For some reason, we are not tolerable of our great players. We have always talked about how we cleave to the underdogs. And it’s true. But I don’t want to discuss our relationship with muckers and grinders. I want to discuss our relationship with the supreme athletes.
And you can listen to the full opening diatribe below…
