These guys can’t be serious.. average American salary is 70k, so ole Draymonds 27 million dollar salary a year means the corporate American only has to work 385 years to accumulate what he makes in a year. Privileged he is
Draymond Green blasts $100,000 NBA fines: “This job ain't set up for us to be wealthy”
“The amount of money we get fined for the things that we do, that shit don't happen in Corporate America”
“You get fined $50,000 because you say something somebody don't like. 50 grand, that's real money. 100 grand. ‘Oh, he only got fined 100 grand.’ The fines to me don't make sense”
“As hard as we work to accumulate wealth, coming from situations that most people never make it out. Then you get fined the way we get fined. It's actually not set up for us to be wealthy after we're done playing”
"The way we're taxed, the way we're fined, this job ain't never been set up for us to be wealthy after we're done playing”
Draymond says he had no interest in playing in the 2019-20 season:
“One of the worst feelings I ever had was the year we sucked. It was right after KD left. Klay was hurt. Steph was hurt. We were awful. I had zero interest in playing. I mean, we had just come off five straight NBA Finals… We were the best team in the world. And now... I’m out here with 10, maybe 11 guys who were out of the league within a year. No disrespect to them, but they weren’t Steph. They weren’t Klay. They weren’t KD. They weren’t Sean Livingston. The competitiveness just wasn’t the same. And I was just going through the motions. I remember being on the floor and hearing guys say stuff like, ‘Yeah, you old now — you can’t do it no more.’”
(via @boardroom)
It’s straight up pay for play. It’s not NIL.
It’s now pro sports and should be treated as such with contracts, and those contracts should be public knowledge like coaches contracts and all other professional athletes…You can be hired, you can be fired. It’s called the real world.
@RaneBateman Or your QB can’t throw the ball.. really can’t throw it down the field. He has 3 games with under 150 yards with well over 20 passing attempts a game. Steelers were 3-1 with a top 10 defense and want to act like the QB is good.
The typical salary required nationwide for homeownership is now $106,500 — a 61% increase from the $59,000 required just four years ago, according to Zillow.
Stephen A. Smith says black coaches have an issue with JJ Redick doing a podcast with LeBron James
"Numerous coaches, Black coaches called me expressing how they took issue with that podcast taking place."
(h/t @awfulannouncing )
Luka Doncic
Yr 1: Rookie of the Year
Yr 2: All NBA 1st Team
Yr 3: All NBA 1st Team
Yr 4: All NBA 1st Team
Yr 5: All NBA 1st Team
Yr 6: All NBA 1st Team
Charles Barkley with a message on coaches, players and people who cover basketball.
"For all you punks, idiots and jackasses on other networks, who want to be media and who want all the players to like y'all, do your damn job. The Lakers suck and the Suns suck because of the players."
You take the names of tiger, Mahomes, Brady, Rodgers and allen out.. and add 2 women who most men haven’t heard of. Yeah the views will go down. Put Brandi Love on next year
Blake Snell is going to get hundreds of millions of dollars on a multi year deal. And he should. He deserves it. For a team that doesn’t want to commit multi years, hundreds of millions of dollars, or many elite prospects for a Cy young award winner, they could sign me for league minimum and pay 0 incremental dollars over what they have to pay to that roster spot anyway. Just another option for teams that want to win and don’t want to break the bank.