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Pro Athletes not practicing?

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Chronic_
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I know in basketball a lot of the best players have the option to practice like Allen Iverson and Lebron James and i think its total bullshit. how are you supposed to get better with your team and earn respect if you dont work just as hard? Anyway i was wondering if there were any other sports like this or what your opinion is on it.

Nov 20 2008 10:17PM
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Style+eeze
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that's fucking stupid. if i got paid millions, i would practice every single day hard
Nov 20 2008 10:21PM
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shibby
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That's so wack. You play the sport you love for a living, get paid mad scrilla and you can't even show for practice? No wonder AI is a cunt sometimes.
Nov 20 2008 10:32PM
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SteezeNutz
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If i was the owner of the team and i was paying one athlete horrendous amounts of money, i would make them be my little bitch and run their asses into the ground at every practice.
Nov 20 2008 10:33PM
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comeatmebro
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seriously they sign a contract and get paid millions to play the sport they love and they can't even show up for practice. pathetic.
Nov 20 2008 10:34PM
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Peter.
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truly shows they have no love for the game, and are just in it for the money and status
Nov 20 2008 10:44PM
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CHEEZ--IT
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this is why i watch college basketball and not the nba.  nba players just don't care very much. if they lose it's not a big deal. they just go home to their gigantic mansions and insanely hot wives but college players actually have something to lose. they only get four years and they're not getting paid so they work as hard as they can all the time
Nov 20 2008 10:47PM
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k-rob
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okay, they get the option, but do they take it? i'm not going to start calling pro athletes a a bunch of lazy asses if i don't know that they really are.
Nov 20 2008 10:50PM
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TheButterHashira
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Is this every practice or just certain practices? Like maybe one day of the week is off or something like that?
Nov 20 2008 10:51PM
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Bob_Gnarley
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NBA teams really don't practice all that much. They play games every other day and usually the off days are spent traveling.
Nov 20 2008 10:52PM
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Dudesinpools
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practice, PRACTICE, we talking bout practice. come on ....haha no but really fuck them they should show up to every practice all day every day.

seems like they already got what they want they just want to hold onto it.

Nov 20 2008 10:54PM
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MCIRONCOCK
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Like others have said, if I was paid millions for the sport I love playing, I would practice with the team every day, and then practice afterwards on my own time. That shit is weak, I want to watch players work as a team to win, not watch some asshole showboating around because he doesn't know his own team.
Nov 20 2008 10:56PM
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Chronic_
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its definetely not just certain practices. i watched a press conference with allen iverson and someone asked about practice and he laughed and said he didnt practice...i lost all respect for the man right there

Nov 20 2008 10:56PM
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Bob_Gnarley
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No, he was responding to the media because the coach suspended him for not attending practice one time. Thread creator: do you have a link to back up this thread? I was just wondering.
Nov 20 2008 11:00PM
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Chronic_
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nah i dont. sorry i must not have been payin attention and only caught that part.. so disregard that post
Nov 20 2008 11:04PM
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InfernoHits
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I used to be allowed to take off practices or just do what I wanted, it was fucking sweet when everyone else had to do shit
Nov 20 2008 11:51PM
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Bepo
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sorry, but you guys have no idea how hard athletes train to be at the top of their game. The amount of time they workout and train during the offseason alone is ridiculous. Then during the regular season they have to work out to maintain their form and prevent injury, on top of team meetings, practices and games.
Nov 21 2008 12:09AM
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BennyV
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsId3goYYE

Nov 21 2008 12:35AM
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Piste.Off
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even if guys like AI and Lebron aren't practicing with their team i'm sure they practice on their own. they probably have their own court at their house
Nov 21 2008 12:43AM
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hartig
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if i ever get good enough to do something professionally without practicing, i prolly wouldn't practice either
Nov 21 2008 12:48AM
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Casey
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whatever guys. If i was 10 x better at basketball than the rest of my team without practicing i wouldn't risk the injury. and obviously they are in a position to tell anyone that thinks different to fuck off, so who cares. some people just have a gift.
Nov 21 2008 1:12AM
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beer.
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I totally disagree with all of you, there's nothing cooler than being the best at something without even trying.  I know pro athletes work incredibly hard even if they don't practice, but natural talent is much more badass.  anyone can work hard.

 nothing brought me more pleasure in high school than acing tests that worker-bee girls and nerds failed.
of course now I'm in college and those days are over, and I wish I had a better work ethic, still working on that.
Nov 21 2008 1:32AM
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cmeriptahoe
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They got to be the best with a combination of natural talent and practice... and that practice was probably not the same practice everyone else was doing. I promise you they practice on their own, probably because whatever they do by themselves is more beneficial to them than practicing with the rest of the team.
Nov 21 2008 1:33AM
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DownhillDink
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true. maybe they only take a couple days off a month to rest up for a game or somethin. keep in mind that these all-star players are expected to play most of the game. if i were their coach i would let them take a day off here and there too just to keep them in top shape for game day
Nov 21 2008 2:56AM
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notomatoplz
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ahah beat me to it
Nov 21 2008 9:57AM
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Eastcoastskier09
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if i were a pro i would be out on the slopes all day and practicing tricks. Pros not practicing means somethings wrong
Nov 21 2008 1:32PM
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fujarome
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i highly doubt that this is reference to skiers...or for that matter any sport other than basketball really.

skiers should be out skiing because they want to, i have never heard anyone, even a pro get pissed that they have to go out and work on some tricks
Nov 21 2008 2:44PM
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