Al Horford

Boston Celtics' Al Horford watches against the Detroit Pistons in the first half of a NBA basketball game in Auburn Hills, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.

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Chill out, Michael Felger, and please realize parents should be allowed time to celebrate the birth of a newborn child.

After Boston Celtics big man Al Horford missed Monday night's 112-104 win against the Miami Heat because of his daughter's birth, Felger made a late run at the worst sports take of November, suggesting on CSNNE that Horford should have chartered a private jet to play in the game.

"He had the birth of his kid in Atlanta," Felger said on the television station. "The game was in Miami. I know when you make $30 million a year it ain't much to get a private jet. (Celtics co-owner) Wyc (Grousbeck) would probably pick it up to fly down at 3 o'clock in Atlanta. It's about a 90-minute flight to Atlanta. Play the game and come right back."

Despite believing Horford should have skipped out on his wife and child to go play the woeful Miami Heat, Felger did have one disclaimer: "If there were complications then OK, take that all off the table. If the mother or the child or something happened where there were complications, then I totally understand."

"But if this is a generic child birth?" he added. "Play the game."

Before finishing his point, Felger revealed he only took one day off from work after the birth of his own daughter. Just to be clear, Horford took the same amount of time. He is expected to practice Tuesday with the Celtics after they return to Boston.

"I would have gone to the game, I would have played in the game," Felger said. "I like my guys to sort of forsake everything for the team."

Basketball players should do nothing except play basketball! Athletes should not have fun, families or lives off the court! Why would he even want a family when he has the Celtics by his side?!?!

Relax, man. Retrieve your common sense, wherever it might be, and realize that some things -- such as the birth of a new human! -- are well worth skipping a November game against Rodney McGruder, Luke Babbitt and the rest of the Miami Heat.