RedRover
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03-11-12 01:39 AM - Post#125270
In response to mrjames
I'd guess that in a best case scenario where the Hornets got to the airport around 11:30 Eastern Time, a charter plane from MPLS to New Orleans would get in around 2 or 3AM (which I guess would be 4AM with daylight savings). I wonder how Foote (or any 10-day player, for that matter) would find a place to live. He went straight from Springfield to the road game in Denver, so he hasn't been in New Orleans yet (at least, not as a Hornet). Since as a 10-day player, you could be cut at any time, are you just expected to find a hotel with your wages? If so, do players get per diem for home dates too?
I'd guess NBA teams have protocol for treating their "reserve army of labor" well, but I'm curious how it would work. I can't fathom how intense the experience would be of suddenly criss-crossing the continent and playing your first two NBA games with unfamiliar teammates and systems, plus moving to a new city, over the course of roughly 48 hours. Playing back-to-back games in Denver (which has a notoriously inconvenient airport for NBA teams) and Minnesota, before returning to New Orleans on the day the country switches to daylight savings, is also a fairly brutal travel schedule.
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