POSTED 11-8-07

There are rotisserie heroes and fantasy goats. But some performances are so ugly, egregious or plain perplexing that it begs the refrain: What the F--k! Here is Update's seriously twisted moment this week.

Why did Kevin Garnett accept less money to play for the Boston Celtics than sign a big dollar contract with another team? Ditto for Tim Duncan, who took a serious pay cut to sign an extension with the San Antonio Spurs this off-season. The answer: both players have been in the NBA long enough to know that the ridiculous maximum figure contracts superstars command these days do little to earn championship hardware. Instead, they cripple teams financially and restrict the ability of managers to put together championship squads. Garnett may have been the best player in the NBA, but Minnesota was rarely a contender in the West. They simply lacked the monetary means of putting together a dominating squad to compliment KG (aside from a one-off with Sam Cassell and Latrell Spreewell on board). So when Alex Rodriguez demands $350 million just to get a meeting, it makes you scratch your head and wonder WTF! For all his abilities on the field, A-Rod will never win a championship with that mentality. How can a team build a solid foundation when it has to go into debt to pay a single player? Hopefully A-Rod takes a cue from Duncan, who has built a legitimate dynasty with the Spurs, and realizes that at the end of his illustrious career all those MVP rings and batting titles don't add up to a championship ring.