Logan Murdock

We do this every Friday.

It's called Real One of the Week, where we point out an entity, organization, or person that won the week.

I'll go first.

This is actually from a couple of weeks ago.

But I want to give a Real One of the Week to James Harden.

He's played great, but he pushed back on the notion of the importance of player loyalty in the NBA.

He said, at the end of the day, it is basketball.

And the whole quote unquote loyalty thing is overrated.

This is a business at the end of the day.

There's a lot of money involved and a lot of decisions that have to be made.

If a player isn't producing, or if you don't see him in the future, or those in the front office have to do their job, they trade players.

Or if a guy isn't happy and wants to be traded somewhere else, it's a problem.

There are just so many different dynamics that go into it.

Not even just in the NBA.

People who have normal jobs have these same problems.

They just aren't magnified.

Um,

This is a business that at the end of the day, some players ultimately do what's best for them and the front office does what's best for them.

And I thought that was really like one great quote and also all true.

But it was interesting that you hear it from James Harden because if you look back at his career, he has been a victim of this