John Wall says he would make $30M per year in NIL if he were in college today 😳
“I had a dance. I had a song. I was marketable. Handsome.”
(Via @MonSportsNet )
Allen Iverson turns 51 today.
— No. 1 pick
— Rookie of the Year
— 3× steals leader
— 4× scoring champ
— 11× All-Star
— MVP
— On-court career earnings: $154M
— No. 3 retired: 76ers
— Hall of Fame
— NBA 75th Anniversary Team
— Film: Like Mike
— VP of Reebok Basketball
— Earns $800K annually from lifetime Reebok deal; set to receive a $32M trust when he turns 55
HBD to the original AI.
George Lucas personally financed the $115M budget for Star Wars: Episode I (1999).
This unprecedented financial move gave him total creative control and allowed him to keep the lion's share of the film’s massive $1.027B global gross.
The gamble paid off spectacularly!
Charles Barkley fires back at critics who have an issue with the lack of analysis on Inside the NBA
“We want people to have fun. We’re trying to entertain people. We’re on television from 7 to 2 in the damn morning. How many people actually know enough about basketball for us to X-and-O them from 7 to 2 in the morning? … Do people really want to see us four dummies sit there and talk about P&Rs, blitzes, over/under, and things like that? I want people to have fun watching basketball. Period.”
(Via @SInow / h/t @NBA__Courtside )