Luka Doncic Trade highlights the largest double standard in sports

As Jerry Seinfeld used to say, sports fans are just root attachment for laundry.

But sports fans have far different reactions to who starts the washing cycle.

The amazing (I am assuming; I do not follow Basketball) trade that sent Luka Doncic to Lakers And Anthony Davis to Mavericks (many say that Mavs was), Sun’s Frem Kevin Durant made an observation that is true for all professional sports leagues: When the player wants a new team, that’s a problem. When the team wants a new player, It’s no big deal.

“Players are kept to another standard for loyalty and commitment to a program but organizations Don’t be held on the same standard From the outside, ”said Durant via Duane Rankin from Arizona Republic.

Durant is right. It happens all the time. Team can do what they want. Fans may not like the result, but they never question the teams’ right to do what they want when it comes to treating their players as interchangeable parts of a machine. But when the same interchangeable part would like to go to another machine, fans fans their selfishness and lack of commitment to the cause.

It does not change the end result. The fans will still boo the player in a new shirt, even when the team is the one who decided to change laundry. Giants fans, for example, now hate to drive Saquon Barkley back, even though it was well documented (thanks to the team’s poorly advised teeth for the season Hard banks) That Giants chose to let him go.

If Barkley had been the one who opened open to a new team, it would have been worse.

It’s weird. It’s unfair. But that’s just how it is. The fans’ loyalty to the laundry causes them to accept the team’s decisions to regain its colors far easier than they will accept the player’s efforts to throw them.

Will that ever change? Players have become more empowered to seek their preferred destinations in basketball. But still, a player in every sport takes more flak to act in the player’s best interests than the team gets to do exactly the same.

The best (and worst) example in the NFL comes from the draft. This year it became clearer than ever that certain quarterbacks were suppressed, if not destroyed by their first stop in Pro Football (Sam Darnold, Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield). But if incoming prospects are to try to avoid what most people consider as a sorting hat in Harry Potter-style that connects them with suspected fates that need to be accepted as a honor and a privilege instead of one curse and a hardshipMost fans and many in the media would direct their way of insulting.

Hopefully comes the day when former college players with a bank account blow up in the seams from unused zero money will be more willing to say to a team with a track record of dysfunction that they prefer to start their careers in different laundry – And that they just won’t wear the shirt at all if the team chooses to work out them anyway.