From McDonald's All-American To McDonald's Worker

[Buckeye Fever]

You're a dikk. Anyone can fall off. Even you.

Stfu hoe

 

[Buckeye Fever]

@ bytch ass nikkaz gettin mad at me

Go suck ya daddy's dikk wit' ya shyt on it

 

[jwonder]

He is only 32 years old, had 4.4 million and played overseas and all of that is gone?

What is really going on here?

ETA: You are telling me he can't find a coaching job some where? High school, middle school some basketball camp?

What's going on? Come on. You know how some of these ghetto cats do. Pop bottles, trick, give money to the "homies" back in the day. Money goes quick. Them homies aint nowhere to be found now I bet.

He probably doesn't have the skills to coach b ball. Some cats are strictly players and can't go out that scope.

 

[Morethan1]

NBANBA players have one of the most generous pension plans in all of professional sports. They are vested into their pension plans after playing at least three seasons in the league. The minimum benefit for a player that retires at the age of 62 is $56,988 per year - not a bad retirement for a three-year career. The maximum benefit for any player is $195,000, and it takes 11 years of NBA service to qualify for this benefit.

he will be fine

 

[Absolut]

if im reading correctly he wont get that pension til hes 62. how will that make him fine in the next 30 years?

 

[yoyoyo1]

"He was a special athlete. He was very misunderstood. A smart guy. A deep thinker. When you're that intelligent and that deep with your thoughts, sometimes people don't understand where you are coming from."

not that smart then

 

[yoyoyo1]

Big Boss nice article brotha. But ain't it a trip how the mainstream media loves these rags to riches and back to rags stories of black athletes. But let there be a story of these Kat's leaving the pros and running their own business or how they are making even more money than in the pros and the mainstream media will barely do an article on it.

I mentioned this last year when folks were talking about mashburn. I was like it was known for years this dude was making power moves since he retired. But the media ignored that shyt for years. Or how about Bruce Smith owning real estate.

People in the media will talk about emmit smiths failed attempts at sports casting, but won't acknowledge dude a made man now. Doing business in real estate with roger staubach.

this has to be one of the stupidest posts I've ever read on this subject

of course the media doesn't report on athletes (black or otherwise) that are successful.. they're SUPPOSED to be. what's the easiest way to make a million dollars? start with 50 million.

it takes someone extraordinarily stupid to lose millions, so of course these rare cases are going to be reported.

 

[Taadow]

My dominant memory of David Harrison:

I picked him up on 2k to be my third center, and he couldn't even dunk.





Suffice it to say I can see how this has happened.

 

[Momentum]

what happens when u dont understand economics...i save alot of money, never know when ur gonna hit a rough patch

We flip that. Put it back on the streets, hold on to nothing.

A man should never be concerned about another man's money

 

[Ces1ne?]

It's hard to believe that he can't still make money playing basketball overseas. He had a lot of natural talent and is still only 32. I wonder if there is more to the story.

As mentioned by a few before.......Euro/Asian/etc leagues are stocked with dudes exactly like him. Either they have a similar story & faded after making the jump to the pros like him, or weren't even lucky enough to catch that break to make the jump to the NBA/College and settled for a decent career/life outside of the States. It even works the opposite way in other sports.......I've expierenced it 1st hand years ago in Pro/SemiPro U.S. soccer where you now have either journeymen or nearlymen from Europe/SouthAmerica/etc that come over to the smaller U.S. leagues bc they couldn't make it in the bigger countries/leagues in England/Spain. There is such a fine line between making it & not in Pro sports & that's where intangibles like mental/greed/injuries/work ethic/etc.... separate a lot of top athletes bc the talent is there but other aspects aren't.

 

[shakobe]

His sister is goin to the wnba

 

[Figdcotton]

In semi-related news, I just looked at Marc Spears' twitter feed




at that. I haven't heard anything about Renardo Sidney in 5 years

Remember I watched him win city in hs at fairfax.. U could tell then weight would be a major issue for em eventually

 

[Lakers Offseason]

not that smart then

This is the shyt that kills me. It's mentioned several time in that article that he's smart. But if he is, why does he makes decisions like he's a dumbass?

He's 7ft tall, got a free college education, got drafted to the NBA, made millions of dollars, and now he's working at McDonalds at 32 years of age? You ain't smart b. Stop it

 

[50CentStan]

no high school will take him to be their coach?

 

[pete clemenza]

no high school will take him to be their coach?

From what it looks like dude must have ZERO hustle in his body.