Are today's athletes about the game?

Are today's athletes about the game?
Saturday November 29th. 1:27 AM



In today's game one could question whether the athletes are about the game or if they are about the money, fame, and life that comes out of being a star. Most recently this has come in the NBA though it has been seen in other sports. On Thanksgiving Allen Iverson skipped practice as he has done several other times in his career. Iverson gets paid alot of money and I don't think it would kill him to go to practice especially when he is trying to fit in with his new team the Detriot Pistons. One of the reasons he was traded from Denver was missing practice. It is unexceptable but he is not the only one who is doing it. In New York Stephon Marbury refuses to play in the game because they didn't want to play him but now that they needed him he refuses. I have different views on this but if his team needs him to play and he gets paid then he should pay them. There was a third instance of this earlier in the season only this time it was in the NFL. New York Giants wide reciever Plaxico Burress missed practice and a doctors meeting so the team suspended him one game. All of these players teams have suspended them but is this really doing anything to them? They'll probably go do it again and what happens then? Another one game suspension? It's just not going to work. This is why teams thrive for players like Chris Paul and Peytin Manning who just go out there and play. Play the game for the love of the game not the fame.