re: Gentry on Favors: “I don’t have any information on when he will be back.”

Honestly as an organization we just need to let the guy grieve. It’s like when Jrue’s wife had brain cancer and they had a baby prior to her surgery, in a season when we hoped to make the playoffs no less. It’s not a win loss thing. It’s an organizational good will thing. Players notice how organizations treat their players. This season has not been going well. I’m sure the locker room is a little bit tense. I think they all respect the vets (Favors, Jrue JJ, Uncle E). The last thing we need is for the organization to piss off the locker room by forcing somebody back before they feel ready. Surely the FO is in communication with Favors. Nobody thinks he is taking advantage of or milking his mom’s death to get more PTO. Let the guy grieve.

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Surely the FO is in communication with Favors.

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Well, that was the thing that frustrated me -- Gentry saying that he had no information about Favors. Gentry is his coach … did he talk to Favors? I'm pretty sure that I would at least want my coach to call me and ask me how I'm doing and tell me that he cares about me.

frick you. There are people that kill themselves after losing a parent, much less there only parent. You don't what he's going thru, you don't walk in his shoes and your sitting on a fricking computer telling a young man to get over burying the most important person in his life just so your fat arse can watch him block a shot? You are honestly a garbage human being.

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Maybe it’s generational. Players from the Bird, Magic, Jordan era just didn’t leave their teams during the season for personal reasons up to and including the birth of a child or death of a family member.

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Honestly, our games don't mean much right now. We aren't in a playoff hunt, we very likely won't be close to that at all this year. I'm not mad at him taking the time he needs.

Out of Hayes, Okafor, Melli, and Favors, the only player I'm convinced should be here next year is Hayes.

I'm disappointed in how Okafor has played recently. Melli is too erratic shooting threes and seems to be a defensive liability. Favors hasn't played enough to give any sound judgment.

I won’t comment on how another person handles the loss of a parent. We’re all different, and so are the relationships between parents and their children.

This is the equivalent of someone telling you you owe it to your coworkers to come back to work before you're ready after both you're parents pass away unexpectedly

I think we all understand that but itll be 2 weeks since it happened in the next few days and he’s getting paid millions... this feeling of losing your mother isn’t just gonna magically go away.