Kings notes: Being called highest-paid coach shocks Adelman

[EmKingsFan4]

Kings notes: Being called highest-paid coach shocks Adelman



By Martin McNeal -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Thursday, March 31, 2005

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Kings coach Rick Adelman picked up USA Today on Wednesday and said he immediately realized he needed to make two phone calls.



Adelman was incredulous to see himself named the NBA's highest-paid coach with a deal of $6.9 million this season and $20 million overall. He wasn't shocked enough to provide an accurate figure of his salary this season or the extension he signed Feb. 1. But Adelman said he was amazed a national paper didn't show more intelligence or responsibility.



"After I saw that in the paper," he said, "I called the (Kings) office. But that was after calling my accountant. There's a lot of money I've been missing if that was right. I'm in Sacramento, not in New York. Why would anybody think I would be the highest-paid coach in the league?

"My name has never even been mentioned in those circles. Shoot, I'd better check my next pay stub to see if something has changed that I don't know about.

"You would think somebody would make a call to somebody and say, 'We're running this story, and we wanted to know if we were even in the ballpark.' Because they aren't even close on that one, and there are at least three or four others (coach's salaries) in there I know are wrong. It just blew my mind to read that."

Migraines more than a pain - Former Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and ex-Chicago Bulls forward Scottie Pippen had migraine headaches that sometimes made them miss games. When they did, there would be murmurs that they missed games because of just a headache.

Those only came from people who had never had a migraine.

Kings forward Corliss Williamson missed Monday night's game against the Philadelphia 76ers because of a migraine. The fact he missed a contest against the team that traded him a little more than a month ago indicated he was in serious pain.

"It's like a toothache in the head," he said Wednesday. "Really, I don't know how to explain it, but I wish I could explain it by saying something more than it hurts. But it sure does." Star treatment - Add Ben Wallace to the list of centers/big men to go against the Kings and emerge looking like Wilt Chamberlain. The Detroit Pistons star had 19 points, the second time this season he has reached that mark. He scored a career-high 22 points Dec. 4 against the New Orleans Hornets

http://www.sacbee.com/content/sports/story/12649556p-13502969c.html

 

[EmKingsFan4]

I think there are probably quite a few of us who have had a migraine before and they are quite nasty.....I don't blame Corliss at all. When I get a migraine I can't sit up or talk without unbearable pain, I can't even imagine trying to play basketball.

 

[iheartBrad]

Ive only had a migraine like 2-3 times in my life...but you can feel sick to your stomach, sensitive to light and obviously noise...NO WAY you can even sit on th bench comfortably...let alone run up and down the court...another thing i once heard some people making fun of Derek Andersen of the Blazers cuz he didn't play in a game cuz of a toothache...those people obviously have never had a tootache before...not only that but he ended up having to get a root canal or some kind of serious dental surgery and everyone was still not buying that as an excuse

 

[Bricklayer]

Ive only had a migraine like 2-3 times in my life...but you can feel sick to your stomach, sensitive to light and obviously noise...NO WAY you can even sit on th bench comfortably...let alone run up and down the court...another thing i once heard some people making fun of Derek Andersen of the Blazers cuz he didn't play in a game cuz of a toothache...those people obviously have never had a tootache before...not only that but he ended up having to get a root canal or some kind of serious dental surgery and everyone was still not buying that as an excuse

begin off topic rant --->
I have a problem with the whole concept of toothaches -- do they make ANY sense? I mean, think about it. What is the point? Modern dentistry is a very recent invention. For thousands upon thousands upon thousands of years as mankind slowly climbed the ladder, what were you susposed to do?? Its one of the worst pains you can have, and there would have been almost nothing you could do about it. You break a wrist, you don't use the wrist + maybe with social animals like us you make it through witha little help from your friends, even in primitive days. But you get a toothache...??? What' the option? Starve to death? Even then it hurts lots of times with no provocation. At least we have fingers and tools and probably figured out the primitive method of knocking the damn thing out at some point, but what do animals do? Wallow in misery + then die? Just makes no sense the amount of pain involved given that for 99% of our history there didn't used to be anything you could do about it. Why so many pain sensors in a part of your body you can't really help?
/end rant.

 

[Superman]

Isn't this thread supposed to be about Rick Adelman's salary?



How much does he get paid, by the way?

 

[piksi]

Isn't this thread supposed to be about Rick Adelman's salary?



How much does he get paid, by the way?

enough to avoid living on "food stamps"

 

[EmKingsFan4]

I think he stands to make about 2 mil this year....that article claiming Adelman was the highest earning coach is just another example of poor journalism. Writers should be held accountable for what they print. Even though this particular error didn't hurt anyone, you know there are times when a lie in the papers can hurt people and journalists who make mistakes should be liable for them.