Rockets: 3 Reasons Lakers' Prince's shade at Dillon Brooks crosses the line

1. Players don't speak on other players' salaries

The main reason Prince was out of bounds in his slight against Brooks is because players don't traditionally speak on other players' contracts. It's been said many times but the NBA is a brotherhood- a fraternity, if you will.

The players want to see each other get paid and become well-endowed financially, because they understand that they will only be able to command a high salary for so long. This is especially the case for a role player.

On top of that, it benefits them if players receive egregious contracts because it helps to re-establish the market of their skillset and/or positional value. Very rarely do you hear players speak on other players' contracts.

Even when John Wall was on a supermax and receiving roughly $50 million to not play, you didn't hear players saying he was overpaid. Because they don't do that. Ditto for Russell Westbrook, who was receiving an identical annual number as Wall to be a role player for the Lakers.

You didn't hear Lakers players (or any player ) mention Westbrook's contract. Because they don't do that. This is the sort of talk that we hear from fans, which is much different.

But as I noted above, Prince was trying to appeal to the fans, so what should we have expected? Either way, Prince was quite out of bounds.