In Gilbert’s newest blog, he talks to his dad about his comments regarding players’ contracts last week:

I was trying to explain to him in layman’s term that they could use another opinion on their side. No one’s talking to them as a player.

They’re getting advice from agents most likely, and I’m trying to give them a player’s perspective of things. That was it.

We argued for about two hours about this. He said, “How could you say that Iguodala is not worth $12 million and this and this…” And I’m saying; It’s not about what he’s worth, it’s about: You don’t turn down $12 million.

That’s all I’m saying. If you’re looking for a max contract, and max is $15 million and you’re trying to fight and scrape for $3 million extra, you need to reconsider and really think about that. If you’re willing to wait out a whole year to scratch for $3 million, then that’s where the problem comes in at.

After some back and forth banter between the two, Gilbert talked about some of his holiday traditions:

I don’t really do shopping usually though. I learned early, “If you ain’t going to get me nothing, I’m not going to get you nothing.”

When you’re an athlete, entertainer or whatever, people just assume that you’re supposed to buy them gifts and then when they don’t get you anything in return, they’ll hit you with the excuse, “Oh, you can get yourself anything.”

Oh, really?

We used to have a team gift exchange and they started getting mad at the gifts I was giving out. I gave Larry Hughes a bobblehead of me one year. I’ve also given out highlight tapes of myself. I give big, signed pictures of myself so they can look at me over the summer. You know, big ones that they can put on the wall or put it in the family room. That’s the kind of funny gifts I do. I don’t want to go out there and spend no money. I thought rich people were supposed to buy other rich people funny stuff, but they stopped doing the gift exchange because I wasn’t playing by the rules.

At the end he offers well-wishes for Lute Olsen and Kevin Everett and dishes out where you can find his shoes at: