France’s financial woes are an example of what happens to white countries when they are no longer able to build wealth through the extortion of black people and their resources
All this may be true… but common sense should tell you that once you don’t have a job anymore, you shouldn’t continue spending like you still do. Niggas make all the excuses in the world but in the end it just comes down to poor management of finances.
NBA Player, Lou Will says the average NBA player goes broke because $5 million isn’t a lot of money.
“You make $5 Million, two and half of that is gone. You got agent fees and that’s another $50,000 and then you have dues for the NBPA”
“The fees is $15,000 to $20,000 a year and that’s how we’re able to get our health care and all of that”
“Then you have your personal staff, financial advisor is probably 1%, agent at a high number is gonna get 4%”
“Before you look up, you have $1.4 Million off of $5 Million left and then you have the mansions and jewelries and girlfriends and channel bags”
“Before you know it, you’re not a millionaire no more”
Jalen Brunson proved what has always been true in basketball… all them analytics are relative but ultimately a bucket is a bucket…2 or 3 don’t matter… can you put the ball in the basket consistently, yes or no?! There’s other factors obviously but that what it all come down to
Michelle Obama just delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. She upheld her husband’s legacy, defended the dignity of all people, appealed to our better angels, & reminded us of the America that we could be.
What a contrast to the depravity occupying the White House.
Michael Beasley on playing @DwightHoward in the season opener of @theBIG3 this weekend:
"Y'all keep giving me the biggest stripper first so I'm gonna make him shake ass... I had to switch to Young Thug and do it to him with no condom."
De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.
I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.
I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.
I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.
I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.
And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
He actually has a super solid point about the fines tho. The fine amounts are obscene honestly. Idc what kind of money you’re making… 100 grand is a very significant amount of money to have taken from you
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”
As a Laker fan this narrative always piss me off cuz he went to Miami and immediately put his pride aside and did for D-Wade what he never did for Kobe while on the Lakers… even tho Kobe was a better player.
Shaq says he wanted to come to Miami because of Dwyane Wade and had to sacrifice for the 2006 championship:
“When I first came here I had to sacrifice — I was the man everywhere I went…during the playoffs I’m watching this mf (D-Wade) kill BD (Baron Davis)…I seen it with Penny, I seen it with Kobe…now that I’m getting traded I already know where I want to go — I need somebody like him (D-Wade)…we had a conversation and told him ‘this is your team’…I remember one time I was re-negotiating…I think it was 125M for 5y or Pat said you can 100M for 4y and if you take 100 for 4 that’s how we got Posey, Antoine and J-Will…”
(via @wynetwork)
Bezos's stepfather was a multi-millionaire. So was his father. His grandfather was the first director at DARPA. He had every single institutional & familial advantage & was making a ton on Wall St when Amazon launched. This re-write is just pathetic