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Anyone who says loyalty doesn’t exist in the NBA any longer is patently false. Sure, there is not as much loyalty between player and team, and vice-versa, as perhaps there were in decades past. However, players still care as much about their teammates as ever before.
Case-in-point, Gilbert Arenas has announced he will not return to the Wizards unless his teammate, Antawn Jamison, is re-signed by the team. Because Antawn will be a Free Agent, and Arenas’s contract gives him the right to opt-out, the two have decided to make a stance for their team (as they have served as co-captains the last few seasons).
While I can’t say that I believe the loyalty will ever be on par with the true camaraderie you see in college basketball, it is a refreshing turn of events to see players defending one another in such a fashion. Perhaps there is hope for the NBA.
