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A question for Dominique/Pablo: given that the pool of revenue earned by players is fixed, why should the union (or fans) care about guaranteed vs. non-guaranteed contracts?

It's basically a distributional question within union members, right? And so the "winners" of guaranteed contracts are injured players and underperforming players.

I'm much more familiar with the NBA and particularly the Sixers (TTP), and like if you look at the Sixers roster, you can see the "winners" of guaranteed contracts: Paul George and Joel Embiid, neither of whom seem likely to come anywhere close to "earning" their current deals. The "losers" are Quentin Grimes and Guerschon Yabusele. Why would the union care?

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Florio says:

“Good luck with that. High-profile quarterbacks are usually far closer to company men than instigators. But if one of them would want to defy that reality, there would be no complaining from the tiny little corner of the Internet.”

Yeah, Kaepernick really got “support” for being an instigator.

Oh wait, I mean “the shaft”.

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