— OsamaBin Leaning (@JmakWilliams) May 7, 2019 Look, I'd imagine there's nothing in PJ Tucker's contract that demands he treat lower level employees like equals, just as I'd imagine there is nothing in an equipment manager's contract that guarantees him a baseline level of respect from the athletes whose lives he tasked with making easier. Therefore, I'm not going to overreact to the former showing the latter a level of appreciation fitting of a drunk college kid's bedroom floor without displaying so much of a hint of humor in doing so. The uncomfortability that might arise while trying to convenience those dealing with the frustrations of partaking in heated competition, especially when the stakes are at their highest, is an occupational hazard of serving as the NBA equivalent of the help, so there's no reason to make this a bigger deal than it is. What there is reason to do, however, is suggest that PJ Tucker is kind of a prick whose superiority complex might be highly disproportional to the power he has throughout the Houston Rockets' organization. That's not to discredit what he brings as a veteran, hard-nosed, three-and-D hustle player, which is quite a lot, but it is to say that he'd have to average about 35 more points per game to even come close to justifying his use of another human being as a hamper. It's a hell of a lot harder to work your way through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of professional athletics than it is to be a half-decent person, so there's really no excuse for PJ Tucker to not offer basic human decency towards a colleague. If not because it's simply the right thing to do as someone who is constantly being catered to while making millions upon millions of dollars to play a sport then because it would make me feel better about initially laughing at the clip of him throwing his rags on some poor bastard that has nowhere near as many riches.
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