Michael Beasley says the NBA can leave players unprepared for life after basketball because many grow up knowing nothing but the game
“The NBA is the absolute hardest place in the world to make it.”
“The thing that people don’t speak about is the people we play with are the same we play AAU with our whole life.”
“We don’t know nothing else.”
“And then y’all take the ball from us, and we turn into a high school kid again.”
“The depression comes from not knowing how to fill a bank account out, not knowing what the taxes is, not knowing a W-2.”
“We’ve been kids our whole life and the fact that we can dribble the ball, we just been perpetuated.”
“And soon as we can’t dribble the ball, nobody loves us.”
“I never been in a grocery store.”
“I went in Costco for the first time in April my entire life.”
“I almost cried because, one, the shit was huge.”
“I just remember giving people $1,000 to go to car schools.”
“I remember people giving, you know, $1,500, $500, and I just don’t got this much shit in my house.”
“Just imagine you getting up like this.”
“I’m hungry, man.”
“We’ll go to the store for you. Where the keys to the car?”
@uncleTgotpaid Because we’re too smart for the small talk & fake shit. We see through that & it doesn’t entertain us. Simple minds love to talk about people & events, the same pointless stuff over & over again which drives us crazy lol