@alpacinogrunt I do think in a pre-second apron world some dumb team would have given up 4 firsts for JB. Teams were less wary of bad contracts for talented players when the only penalty was the luxury tax.
@punishedpants C’s bias aside, I think VJ and Maxey are the real deal, and if I were a Sixers fan I’d be pretty squeamish about Jaylen taking shots from both of them.
@punishedpants The more I think about it this feels like the Horford signing all over again. I don’t think either team really improved in the short term.
As a C’s fan, I’m just clinging to the picks, because the rest of the trade was just a bad contract swap.
@nise_yoshimi I think music videos were a very direct progenitor of the short form video boom (especially “edits” and the like) but the form itself is kind of vestigial at this point
The dumbest pro athlete: yea man alot of people don't know how easy it is to run out of money even on a 100 million dollar contract, the 2 houses, 12 cars and 600,000 dollars worth of clothes I buy every year just ain't enough
Joe Haden says most people have no idea how quickly an NFL contract disappears once taxes and family expenses hit.
“I signed a five-year, $50 million contract.”
“I had about $26.6 million guaranteed.”
“My first year, I got a $12 million signing bonus.”
“After taxes, I only touched around $7 million.”
“The first thing I did was give my parents $3 million.”
“Then I bought them a $1 million house.”
“So right away, about $5 million was gone.”
“I bought my brothers cars.”
“I bought myself a penthouse.”
“I got a Range Rover Sport and a Bentley GT.”
“People hear $50 million and think you’ve got $50 million sitting in the bank.”
“That’s not how it works.”
“You look up after all that and realize you might only have around $1 million left.”
“You start understanding real quick that a $50 million contract is not actually $50 million.”
“That’s why so many guys go broke.”
@alpacinogrunt I have a strange inclination that he could actually be good on like, the Angels. But I don’t think it’s ever happening here at this point.