Yeah, I don't really see the big deal about this. Taking a better contract isn't proof that he didn't love Detroit; it's not like an athlete can only love playi

Yeah, I don't really see the big deal about this. Taking a better contract isn't proof that he didn't love Detroit; it's not like an athlete can only love playing for one specific team/location, and even if that weren't the case, I don't think that's a good reason to refuse a better offer (especially since sometimes a team won't want to resign a player for various reasons, e.g. not having the budget to pay the player as much as they would get elsewhere, or having signed a younger promising player in the same position). I think this is a fairly non-controversial opinion on Hacker News for software engineers (i.e. the company you work for doesn't have any specific loyalty to you and would happily replace you with someone cheaper who does equivalent work if they could), and as much as I have emotional attachment to my favorite sports team and don't really think that the difference between $10 million/year and $15 million/year will make that big a difference in someone's life, I don't see why the same principal wouldn't apply to them/