NFL Player Lives On 30 Percent Of Salary, Invests The Rest (Should Make Double His Salary)

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

That's not a lot for 2 people, especially if he's the only one bringing in any income. No wife of a NFL player wants to shop at Payless

say some more shyt

• TooLazyToMakeUp1
• Dec 11, 2014

 

[Tim Dripcan]

@SheWantTheD


old story, but here's another brother.

Kawhi (pronounced like the Hawaiian island) Leonard plays for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. In the age of Stephen Curry, many people forget about players like Leonard, even if they do command $94 million contracts.

Per the March 2016 Sports Illustrated, “he was named Finals MVP in 2014, captured Defensive Player of the Year in ’15 and this season seized the unofficial title of best two-way player in the NBA.”

If you don’t follow the Spurs, you may not be familiar with Kawhi Leonard. He doesn’t care, and it’s not false humility. He simply doesn’t go for the glitz and glamour and doesn’t feel the need to hog the spotlight. He just wants to play ball. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Leonard explained, “I don’t like to bring attention to myself. I don’t like to make a scene….I could be on the court for two hours and it felt like 10 minutes. It made time go by.”

Don’t think that he plays ball because he can’t do anything else, though. Leonard loves math and spent two years at San Diego State University before he was selected as the15th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. And how have those math skills paid off? The Root notes that he “spends his summers in a two-bedroom apartment in San Diego…[and] drives a rehabbed ’97 Chevy Tahoe, nicknamed Gas Guzzler.” Why? He told SI, “It runs, and it’s paid off.”

While other stars are buying mansions, collecting luxury cars, and dropping “Benjamins” at the casino while bathing in Cristal, Leonard enjoys his modest lifestyle and prefers his unlimited supply of wings from his Wingstop sponsor…and he isn’t too proud to use his free coupons even if he is pulling in over $20 million a year.

Finance professor Dr Boyce Watkins says that Leonard represents a template her love to see more athletes follow.

“Black athletes are among the most powerful and intelligent men in the world,” says Dr Watkins, who is promoting black wealth building around the world in his Black Economic Empowerment Tour. “It was the racist media who made black men think that we are supposed to engage in ridiculous financial coronary.”

In a world where pro athletes go broke the moment they leave the league, it is refreshing to know there are still athletes of the highest calibre who love the game and have some financial sense.

NBA's Kawhi Leonard Has $94 Million Contract But Lives in Two-Bedroom Home, Drives '97 Chevy Tahoe – Financial Juneteenth

 

[Malik1time]

teammates:

smart breh:

10 years later



Teammates:

Smart breh:

 

[Sauce Dab]

Nice

You can tell dude is a business major

I hope he balls out and gets a big contract now so he can stack up even more

 

[FluffyCorleone]

It's 2016 and this is the first time we've heard of an athlete doing this. They should have been doing this YEARS ago but alot of them are idiots like Allen Iverson who spend it all at casinos and shyt.

Not to sound conspiratorial but I feel if more black athletes did this white supremacist will take notice.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

30%?

Thats...more than you think

Considering he makes SO MUCH MONEY.

And on top of that, that 21 million is only gross, not after tax.

So that 30% is probably closer to...40%-50%?

 

[Remote]

Wow this dude has godlike self control

Dont forget Marshawn lived on 0% of his salary; just off his endorsements

 

[Swirv]

No way he is married, what wife is going for that lifestyle

Only if she's a team player

 

[King Poetic]

what coli nikkas not paying attention to is

HE WENT BACK TO SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS SO HE CAN GET INVOLVED WITH HIS OWN MONEY AS WELL AS HAVE A FINANCIAL ADVISOR JUST IN CASE THE ADVISOR TRY TO GET OVER HE'LL BE ALREADY EDUCATED ON THE SITUATION AND WHERE HIS MONEY GOING

INSTEAD OF BEING LIKE TIM DUNCAN AND OTHERS WHO JUST THROW THEIR MONEY TO SOME SLICK TALK MOTHERfukkER WHO LOOKING TO GET OVER.

 

[Geek Nasty]

No way he is married, what wife is going for that lifestyle

Guarantee you hes not running in igthot circles or stalking DMs for plastic p*ssy

 

[JAY?]

99.9% of this board doesn't make 6k a month after taxes

i wish when you applied for a job you'd get the after taxes and deductions amount, ill tell somene my salary and they will be like , but after like 30% taxes, health and dental, 9% company pension deduction, employment insurance, pension plan for my country deduction, union dues, its like dammit man.

What trade you in?

 

[Larry Lambo]

6K is a decent amount if he lives in Detroit.

$500K house which would be hella nice would be about $2500 mortgage, and then spend the remaining $3500 on necessities, clothes, travel, entertainment.

Wifey ain't shopping at Payless on $6K. She may not be copping Louie bags, but she's getting Michael Kors/Coach.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

That's not a lot for 2 people, especially if he's the only one bringing in any income. No wife of a NFL player wants to shop at Payless

You nikkas have no clue... You must stay in NYC or LA

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

It's 2016 and this is the first time we've heard of an athlete doing this. They should have been doing this YEARS ago but alot of them are idiots like Allen Iverson who spend it all at casinos and shyt.

Not to sound conspiratorial but I feel if more black athletes did this white supremacist will take notice.

Athletes have been doing this.... even tho he is not the norm.. the article is sensationalized.... he is more than likely "invested" in something that is 80% safe..... He's been in the league for almost a decade now

 

[BaldingSoHard]

In fairness, the market started providing STAGGERING returns in 2009 and has been on a historical run ever since.