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Carmelo Anthony explains why a $100,000,000 contract doesn’t make professional athletes rich for life “$100 million… let’s not get that twisted.” “It’s not really $100 million.” “You’re taking 50% to 60% off the top.” “So that $10 million becomes $5 million.” “Then you’ve got taxes in every state you play in.” “You’ve got a house.” “You’re taking care of your mom.” “You’ve got a 4% agent fee.” “You’re not working with $10 million anymore, you’re working with $5 million.” “That drastic lifestyle change is what messes a lot of athletes up mentally.” “You’ve got to budget how you pay your mortgage.” “You’ve got to budget your food.” “$100 million is not $100 million.” “You’re not even seeing 50% of that money.”
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Jeff Passan says Shohei Ohtani earns over $100 million a year off the field and helped the Dodgers become MLB’s first $1 billion revenue franchise “Personally, with all of the advertisements, sponsorships, and stuff like that, it’s upward of $100 million.” “The Los Angeles Dodgers are not the Los Angeles Dodgers—they are the Shohei Ohtani Shell Corporation.” “Good for them. They saw what the Angels never did.” “They understood that Ohtani himself is a monolith.” “They saw the international possibilities in Japan.” “They saw the business possibilities.” “It’s everything—the tours, the tourists, the merchandise, the sponsorships, the whole kit and caboodle.” “The Dodgers just last year became the first Major League Baseball franchise to have more than $1 billion in revenue in one year.” “And they’re going to do it again this year
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Rich Paul says even athletes making $200, 000,000 can’t afford to waste money “I’ve got guys who are 22 making $200 million over the next four or five years.” “But I’m constantly telling them that’s not a lot of money based on where they’re starting.” “They’re done at 33.” “That money’s taxed.” “No athlete can afford to fly private all the time.” “Yet we see so many athletes on Instagram flying private.” “I fly Delta.” “I cannot afford to fly private, and that’s okay with me.” “I’m trying to get where I’m going to make the money. I’m not trying to spend the money.” “The times I do fly private, you’ll never see it on Instagram because it’s not for show.”
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Lou Young says he blew through his entire $5,000 NFL signing bonus in one day as a rookie “$5,000 got spent in a day.” “No taxes, it’s $3,500.” “I had to take care of every bill.” “By the end of everything, I probably had like $1,200.” “I had no clothes in Denver, so I went to the mall.” “After that I probably had like $400 left.” “We went out that night and I put $300 on it. I had $100 left.” “By the next week, I was like, ‘I ain’t got it.’”
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LaKeith Stanfield says he spent his first $130,000 check on a car and was broke afterward “I got my first check. It was like $130,000.” “The only thing on my mind was getting this car that I really wanted.” “I walked into the dealership with a duffel bag full of money and set it on the counter.” “I drove off the lot, and I was broke.” “I learned the value of knowing how to spend and use your money because I was struggling to pay my rent the next week.” “If I had someone to mentor me and tell me, ‘That’s not how you spend your money,’ that would’ve been very, very helpful.”
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LeBron James says his daughter is one of the biggest reasons behind his free agency decision “This is the fourth time I’ve been a free agent.” “When I went to Miami, I had my reasons.” “When I went back to Cleveland, I had my reasons.” “When I went to the Lakers, I had my reasons.” “But now, my almost 12-year-old daughter is pulling a lot of weight.” “I pulled her aside and told her, ‘I won’t be playing for the Lakers next year. I’ll be playing somewhere else.’” “I didn’t want her to hear it from anyone else.” “I told her, ‘You don’t have to answer right now. I just want to know how you’re feeling because you mean a lot to me.’” “The family portion is a big thing.” “People keep saying, ‘Hurry up and make a decision.’” “But it’s not just about the team.” “It’s about what’s best for me as a player, as a person, my happiness, and my family.” “The family portion is huge for me.” ( Via Boardroom)
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Ndamukong Suh says a $200,000 NFL salary can become about $100,000 after taxes “When I played for Philly, I was on the lower range of my salary coming into that team, and I was a backup.” “It was very humbling.” “There’s guys that are still living paycheck to paycheck because $100,000 and you’re getting hit with the jock tax and cut that in half.” “Let’s just bump it up to $200,000. You’re living in New York or New Jersey, you make $200,000 and you cut that in half, that’s $100,000.” “But they’re expecting you to live like the superstar that’s making $40 million a year.” “That ain’t mathin.”
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Patrick Beverley says he came to the NBA with just $7,000 after paying $1.25 million of his $1.7 million overseas buyout himself “I’m officially in the NBA now. I’m broke as hell. I got to get all this money back.” “My buyout, $1.7 million. The NBA can only pay $450,000. I had to pay the rest.” “Put myself in debt coming to the league.” “I paid my own money to get to the NBA, bro.” “All the money I ever made overseas, I got to get all that shit back.” “I came to the NBA with like $7,000 in my pocket.”
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Iman Shumpert says Kevin Durant’s comments about valuing an MVP over the Larry O’Brien Trophy cost him two extra rings “KD, it is your fault I don’t have two extra rings. I would have three.” “Did y’all think that y’all really could say that and the basketball fans like me and my brother were really going to let that ride?” “MVP is more important than the Larry O’Brien Trophy.” “It just don’t sound right.” “The Larry O’Brien, it’s like so much more mega.” “They use gloves to bring it out, man.” “They got the little white things and they be spit shining that shit.” “They sit it in too like it’s a bomb. Like they don’t want to drop it.” “Yeah, it’s in the chest and shit.” “Yeah, they got it in a suitcase.” “Got the straps around the top, too, man.” “They got people with heat on them.” “They got the five on them carrying that thing in.” “It’s a serious ceremony. It’s a serious thing.”
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Rich Paul says he wanted off LeBron James’ payroll as soon as possible to build his own career “LeBron wasn’t obligated to do anything for me or anybody else.” “The only person he was obligated to do something for was Gloria James.” “When I got my first check, I didn’t even know how to read it.” “I called and asked what my job was.” “He said, ‘I actually don’t have a position for you at all.’” “I had two choices.” “I’m definitely not a yes man.” “So I created value.” “I was everything from a party promoter to a stylist to a jeweler.” “That eventually led to a job at Nike.” “That’s where I learned the legal side, the footwear business, and marketing.”
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LeBron James laughs off reports claiming he has a $1.2 billion net worth “That is a lie.” “It’s way less.” “I’ve only got a couple thousand in my bank.” “Everything I’ve got on is free.” “My Richard Mille? Free.” “My wedding band? Free.” “I ain’t got no money, man. I’m broke.” “My kids got all the money now with these NIL deals.” “They take care of dad now.”
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Mark Cuban says his credit card was declined when he tried to buy a $140,000 bottle of champagne after the Mavericks won the NBA championship “Dirk was like, ‘Yes, he wants it.’” “And I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, let’s get it.’” “Ten minutes later go by and there’s nothing.” “I’m like, ‘Let me find out.’” “We call American Express and the lady said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t approve it because you’re at a club. It’s $104,000. You’ve never bought anything like this.’” “I’m like, ‘Can I talk to your manager?’” “And he’s like, ‘How do I know this is Mark Cuban?’” “Were you just watching TV? Did you see that we just won a championship and I’m trying to buy a bottle of champagne?” “So they finally approved it, and I got my $140,000 bottle of champagne.”
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Rich Paul says athletes have the hardest job in the world because their $100 million contracts can become $50 million after taxes while everyone around them stops working “Athletes have the hardest job in the world.” “They take everybody to work with them.” “You at work, you at work, nobody with you. But they take everybody to work with them.” “Not to mention $100 million, really $50 million after taxes.” “Now you gotta multiply that times your dependents, then break it down from there.” “When an athlete makes money, everybody around them stop working.” “That don’t make sense though.” “When the CEO of Amazon gets promoted to become CEO, I can guarantee you nobody stopped working.”
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Jeff Passan revisits the Shohei Ohtani–Ippei Mizuhara gambling scandal and reveals how the story unfolded behind the scenes “The first tip was, ‘Shohei Ohtani might have a gambling problem.’” “My first thought was, ‘Oh God… the thing that’s too good to be true actually is.’” “I reached out to ESPN investigative reporter Tisha Thompson because she had better sources than I did.” “She had the conversation with Ippei Mizuhara that forced the Dodgers to address the situation in Japan.” “We were preparing to publish when they reached out and said, ‘Actually, this is not what happened.’” “There’s still a large segment of people who believe Shohei Ohtani was the one gambling.” “I ask those people to read the 30-plus-page indictment and listen to the phone calls.” “There’s just a lot of evidence.” “If it actually is all a cover-up, it’s one of the greatest cover-ups in the history of the world.”
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Stephen A. Smith says marijuana should not be allowed in the NBA because he considers it a performance-enhancing drug “I consider weed a performance-enhancing drug.” “It helps calm your nerves.” “Nerves are part of competition.” “If you’re using a drug that allows you to calm your nerves and it elevates your poise, that’s a performance enhancer because you are immune to the pressure.” “It’s Game 73 and you gotta go to the free throw line with two seconds left. You gotta make both to tie the game. That’s nerves.” “If weed is something that helps that, that’s a performance enhancer.” “It should not be allowed.”
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Emmanuel Mudiay says the NBA stopped feeling like basketball when he realized players making $15,000,000 could keep playing while those making $3M or $5M sat: “This is not basketball, it’s business” “I didn’t love basketball no more, bro.” “It started in Denver.” “It was like, ‘This is not basketball. It’s business.’” “If that person is making $25, $15 million, and you’re making $5 million, you’re making $3 million, the person making $15 million, they’re playing.” “I don’t care if they had four or five bad games in a row, bro. They’re playing.” “That was kind of the frustrating part.” “I was like, ‘Man, what is this?’” “It’s not basketball.” “There’s no way it’s basketball.”
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Chris Paul reveals how he spent his first NBA money after having just $151 in his bank account “I had $151 in my bank account when I declared for the NBA Draft.” “My financial advisor wanted to send me $100,000.” “My parents said, ‘No, that’s too much.’” “So they sent me $25,000.” “I took my girlfriend, who’s now my wife, to the mall.” “I told her, ‘Buy whatever you want.’” “Then we went to TGI Fridays.” “That was the first time we paid with one check.” “It’s been one check ever since.” “The first thing I bought for myself was a BMW 750.” “To me, that was the nicest car in the world.”
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Draymond Green reveals what Stephen Curry told Kevin Durant during the Warriors’ 2016 Hamptons recruitment meeting “All of us was in the Hamptons.” “He asked us, ‘How do I fit in? Y’all have won a championship. Y’all just lost in Game 7.’” “And Steph goes in there and says, ‘Man, I’m not worried about being the face of the team. We want you here with us.’” “That’s crazy.” “Then he asked more questions about, like, ‘If I do this, I’mma be hated.’” “And I told him, ‘Man, if you do this, one thing about us is you don’t go through anything by yourself.’” “When everybody hating you, they gonna hate us too.”
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Rich Paul says the most he ever made working directly for LeBron James was just $48,000 a year “I’ve never celebrated one deal I’ve done. Not one.” “When I started working with LeBron and for LeBron, the most money I ever made was $48,000 a year.” “That was the most I ever made.” “I was only on his salary for two years.” “Since 2006, I’ve been off his payroll.”
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Sebastian Telfair says his $20 million NBA career earnings worked out to just about $1 million a year after taxes, making it difficult to build generational wealth while supporting his family “So I played 10 years. You said I made $20 million. We all know about Uncle Sam, right? So what’s that? $10 million. That’s about a million a year. That ain’t no money. The real truth is I ain’t really make no money.” “I didn’t make Floyd Mayweather enough money. You gotta be a real strategic dude making a million dollars a year and thinking you gonna end up with everything on earth. I got o I’ll 14 brothers and sisters that I love with all my heart. I got a mother and a father, so it was a lot on us.” “We ain’t make enough money for it to be sitting the way it’s supposed to be sitting. I invested in Philippe Charriol. When I first got to the league, I was on the path to do the right things. I just got knocked off the path of sitting here with $275 million cash right now.”
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