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It makes sense. This is a job. Championships are nice but I would prefer those extra few millions than being on a better team. I don't blame any athlete that wants money more than a ring.
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It makes sense. This is a job. Championships are nice but I would prefer those extra few millions than being on a better team. I don't blame any athlete that wants money more than a ring.
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If any NBA player is living paycheck to paycheck he's an idiot and deserves zero sympathy. You can't manage a 100k or more a year properly?
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68% while isnt 80 its pretty damn close.... it aint like saying 12% is 80%... alot of guys/most dont even make it past the initial rookie contract or getting season to season 10 day contracts...yet they spend and live like they making kg, kobe, lebron money...that combination = brokeyi believe it but you guys are making it seem like its 80% of the league
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Players hear that they're making 12 mil a year and think they're getting 12 mil a year. They don't realize it's really around 5 that goes into their pocket. Still plenty of money but then you want to impress everyone and help everyone. Then you have people in your ear slurping you and telling you how much you have. You just spend like you can't go broke, then one day you are broke and in shock.
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I wouldnt say thats being
I bet he still had liquid cash stashed somewhere, he may be broke to the irs but i doubt these athletes are really broke, they have liquid somewhere but when the irs is on your *** you gotta settle for less & seem broke like antoine walker
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shoelyesses
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his baby momma sued for 200 million for spousal support and i think he was paying somewhere around 50k a month on top of that in child support... and lets face it nobody was buying them dadas... and spinners quickly got bootlegged and went out of style.
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who does LOL think he is, chicago tried to extend him but he wanted to get more money than J Smith got from Detroit ( i think it was around 12 mil)
If this dude thinks he's getting 15 mil than it willbe with a bum squad and he wont ever get to a ring until he becomes a bench warmer, ala Rashard Lewis.
i understand that you only have a small window to cash in on your talent, but this guy should take the 10-12 mil and play on a contender
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Wasn't latrell 3 yr offer for 21 mil with the twolves.
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this i think you are right
shoelyesses
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im pretty sure he didnt report all his assets... and he left a little nest egg stashed away for his untimely death.... but dude was/his family is living a within means lifestyle.... i doubt his wife has the ability to just go out a buy a car, go out and just get a brand new crib etc....
shoelyesses
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thats is where he said man my baby mama/ex wife whatever is hitting me up for 200 mil, i got 50k a month in child support etc... and with all that, that little money is nothing... (his words) i cant even live off feed me and my kids offa that....
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fourtyeight48
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F helping out everyone. Help the main people around u and that's it. Giving away millions is stupid.
Pretty soon, Paul George won't be able to either.
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I bet his wife is living real comfy to our standards
Right, wrong, indifferent, it don't matter.
People abuse money. Is what it is. When Lamar got together with his wife, she was astonished to hear he was paying literally 20+ cell phone bills for various hanger ons. It may not be smart on his end, but when you have dozens of family members come out the woodwork lookin for some help, and you makin money like that, you think of it as an easy thing to help with.
Then reality kicks in, and next thing ya know, your career is almost over, and you don't have as much money as you expected to have.
Not to even mention some of the guys out there that have 6-7-8-9 kids with various women, child support, and they don't pay child support like you or I would, they pay out the damn nose. MEGA money for those kids.
Add that all up, and you get a lot of athletes living "well", but also living on credit, worth, future earnings, and when that well runs dry, like during a lockout, they are tapped, quick.
It's easy to say we could do it better, or handle it better, but think how many times you might have loaned a family member 20 bucks, or picked up a tab for them. Now imagine that when it's 100 family members, and those tabs aren't at Appelbee's or some ****, but some fancy restaurant in NY, or LA and instead of 20 bucks, they need car money, or cell phone, or the heat turned on, etc. Gets harder to say no now, don't it? And when you say yes, it's a lot more expensive than that 20 bucks, or a taco bell run for the fam.
People abuse money. Is what it is. When Lamar got together with his wife, she was astonished to hear he was paying literally 20+ cell phone bills for various hanger ons. It may not be smart on his end, but when you have dozens of family members come out the woodwork lookin for some help, and you makin money like that, you think of it as an easy thing to help with.
Then reality kicks in, and next thing ya know, your career is almost over, and you don't have as much money as you expected to have.
Not to even mention some of the guys out there that have 6-7-8-9 kids with various women, child support, and they don't pay child support like you or I would, they pay out the damn nose. MEGA money for those kids.
Add that all up, and you get a lot of athletes living "well", but also living on credit, worth, future earnings, and when that well runs dry, like during a lockout, they are tapped, quick.
It's easy to say we could do it better, or handle it better, but think how many times you might have loaned a family member 20 bucks, or picked up a tab for them. Now imagine that when it's 100 family members, and those tabs aren't at Appelbee's or some ****, but some fancy restaurant in NY, or LA and instead of 20 bucks, they need car money, or cell phone, or the heat turned on, etc. Gets harder to say no now, don't it? And when you say yes, it's a lot more expensive than that 20 bucks, or a taco bell run for the fam.
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it's really easy to say what you would do if you had that kind of money, when you've never experienced everything else that comes with it. you see some of these broads? i'd bury my meat so far in some of em, whoever could pull me out would be crowned king arthur. you see some of the places these guys live, with the amenities they have? real easy to say you wouldn't splurge on it, because it's never been an option for most of us.
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Stupid you tell ur family to go somewhere else with that noise..... don't know how to say no
fourtyeight48
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I know I wouldn't. I don't care about that stuff.
Just need a car under 150k and a 500k home.
I would invest the money before I start even attempting to splurge to guarantee I have another source of income after my career is over that pays me a good amount.
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Oh no doubt id splurge I'm horrible wit $ ... But I'm also tite AF wit other ppl.
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I know if I had a rich uncle I wouldn't see a thing,
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