It’s one thing to be loud. And it’s also one thing to be wrong. You can be one of those things at a time.
But what you absolutely never want to be is loud AND wrong. That’s just never a great combination of things. It almost always leads to an embarrassing moment.
That’s what Brandon Marshall was on his I Am Athlete show. He was arguing with Channing Crowder and Chad Johnson about the differences between NFL and NBA player contracts.
Marshall argued that only four players on an NBA team at any given time have guaranteed contracts. And, well, that’s not true.
But you couldn’t tell that to Marshall, though.
Brandon Marshall couldn’t be more wrong 😂 #IAMATHLETE pic.twitter.com/h3NqYPzFtX
— Ry (@JustRyCole) April 5, 2021
“Not everybody that’s on an NBA roster has a guaranteed contract…There’s four guys on an NBA team that got guaranteed contracts and everybody else can be cut today and don’t got nothing.”
WHEW, BUDDY. That is a lot of passion right there. This is exactly what being loud and wrong looks like.
A vast majority of contracts in the NBA are guaranteed. Sure, there are some exceptions where contracts are just partially guaranteed. There are also 10-day contracts for fringe players and “two-way” contracts where players can play their way into guaranteed money. But, by and large, the contracts are guaranteed.
So, yes, as passionate as Marshall was about this, he was definitely wrong. Hilariously wrong.
Gotta love that energy, though.
