Brons game is gonn be comparable to vin baker in a few years

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After Blowing $100 Mil, Vin Baker is Working at Starbucks
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After Blowing $100 Mil, Vin Baker is Working at Starbucks
Lot of ways to blow a $100 million.

For Vin Baker it was alcohol, bad business moves and too many yes men and women around. When something like that happens and you hit rock bottom all you can do is pull up your bootstraps and go to work.

Baker has bounced around a bit trying to find work in the NBA and he is also an ordained minister now, but he might have found his calling at Starbucks of all places. Here is the story via the Providence Journal.

Now 43, newly married and with four children, Baker is training to manage a Starbucks franchise. He thanks CEO Howard Shultz, the former Seattle SuperSonics owner, with this opportunity. He’s also a trained minister who savors work at his father’s church in Connecticut. Most important, he has been sober for more than four years.

“In this company there are opportunities for everyone. I have an excellent situation here at Starbucks and the people are wonderful,” Baker says.

When athletes and people in general are young, they don’t think long-term and then they get old and realize they have made so many mistakes.

The crazy thing about time is it never goes backwards just forward. There is no rewind button, whatever you do is done and you simply can’t undo it, that is why athletes should heed Baker’s warning.

“When you learn lessons in life, no matter what level you’re at financially, the important part to realize is it could happen,” he said. “I was an alcoholic, I lost a fortune. I had a great talent and lost it. For the people on the outside looking in, they’re like ‘Wow.’ For me, I’m 43 and I have four kids. I have to pick up the pieces. I’m a father. I’m a minister in my father’s church. I have to take the story and show that you can bounce back. If I use my notoriety in the right way, most people will appreciate that this guy is just trying to bounce back in his life.”

I hope it works out for Baker and his Starbucks if he does indeed franchise one in the future.
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Vin Baker was Gin Baker by the time he got to my Celtics, but he was underrated in his prime. He had a back-to-the-basket game, could face up, was an effective mid-post triple-threat scorer, had a mid-range J and was a pretty good pick n roll target.

Baker should never be mentioned in the same sentence as LeBron though :wtf:
 
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