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CJ McCollum says a $2,000,000 NBA salary gets chopped down to under $1,000,000 after taxes and fees, so early on he lived off a $12,000 energy drink deal instead “Let’s say I was making $2 million, after taxes, let’s call it $950K, $970K, Agency fees 4%, marketing 15%. Those checks were chopped down” “I was living off an energy drink deal, I had a $12,000 deal just to get some posts off, and I lived off of that”

CJ McCollum says a $2,000,000 NBA salary gets chopped down to under $1,000,000 after taxes and fees, so early on he lived off a $12,000 energy drink deal instead “Let’s say I was making $2 million, after taxes, let’s call it $950K, $970K, Agency fees 4%, marketing 15%. Those checks were chopped down” “I was living off an energy drink deal, I had a $12,000 deal just to get some posts off, and I lived off of that”

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Jason Bateman says people who inherit fortunes are often the cheapest people he knows “As a kid, I knew I could generate money, so I was never that nervous about spending it. I felt I could replace it” “I’ve got some friends who are incredibly wealthy because their parents were incredibly wealthy; they inherited a bunch of money” “And they’re the tightest people I know. Because they didn’t make that money, so they feel every dollar going out as one they’re never going to get back”

Jason Bateman says people who inherit fortunes are often the cheapest people he knows “As a kid, I knew I could generate money, so I was never that nervous about spending it. I felt I could replace it” “I’ve got some friends who are incredibly wealthy because their parents were incredibly wealthy; they inherited a bunch of money” “And they’re the tightest people I know. Because they didn’t make that money, so they feel every dollar going out as one they’re never going to get back”

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Andre Iguodala says he shared an agent with Kobe, so he planted someone inside Kobe’s workouts to steal exactly what he was doing “I have the same agent as Kobe Bryant, so I was always stealing tips. I had somebody watching Kobe, stealing things, writing things down, giving it to me” “Kobe would dribble on the wall with his left hand at one angle for 20 minutes, then change the angle for another 20 minutes, and so on”

Andre Iguodala says he shared an agent with Kobe, so he planted someone inside Kobe’s workouts to steal exactly what he was doing “I have the same agent as Kobe Bryant, so I was always stealing tips. I had somebody watching Kobe, stealing things, writing things down, giving it to me” “Kobe would dribble on the wall with his left hand at one angle for 20 minutes, then change the angle for another 20 minutes, and so on”

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Mark Cuban says other pharmacies charge $2,000 for a cancer drug that costs $26 at his pharmacy, a 7,600% markup “People need like Imatinib, a chemotherapy drug, from $2,000 down to $26” “Because when you walk in and you need this drug to survive… you pay whatever you’ve got to pay, and they see you coming”

Mark Cuban says other pharmacies charge $2,000 for a cancer drug that costs $26 at his pharmacy, a 7,600% markup “People need like Imatinib, a chemotherapy drug, from $2,000 down to $26” “Because when you walk in and you need this drug to survive… you pay whatever you’ve got to pay, and they see you coming”

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Jason Bateman says he packed a duffel bag of cash to quit Hollywood and flee the country. Then a role he’d been rejected for years earlier came back around and saved his entire career Bateman: “I was literally very, very close to liquidating what little cash I had, putting it in a duffel bag, going down to the Bradley terminal at LAX… finding a city that looked interesting, and just unplugging and going there, plugging in and starting over…” Host: “What kept you from doing that?” Bateman: “An audition for something I ended up getting. And I was also shadowing the great Jimmy Burrows, the television director. Instead of having all the sitcom experience I had be a detriment, a hurdle, a barrier to hiring me. I wanted to turn that into a positive: start directing, try to be the next Jimmy Burrows” “He was kind enough to let me shadow him and signed me up with his agent, Bob Broder. I directed a few episodes of some sitcoms, and it was great” “I was feeling like an adult, feeling like I was using what I’d learned. And then Arrested Development happened” “When I read that script, there’s no way they’re going to see me for this. They’re trying to do the exact opposite of what I’m known for. And then, Mitch Hurwitz, the genius behind Arrested Development remembered me from an audition a few years earlier, for a pilot he didn’t cast me in” “But he remembered that I’d done really well in that audition. So he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll see him for Arrested Development.’ I went in and just guessed right with what they were looking for… So it was a great fit for me and it came right in the nick of time”

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Davante Adams says he plugged his ears so the Packers couldn’t talk him into staying, then signed a $141,000,000 deal with the Raiders making him the highest-paid WR in the NFL at the time Shannon: “You was out of there. You felt they slapped you in your face by not giving you what you had earned up until that point, made you play, put you and your family at risk, and then once you come out on the other side, they say, “Dawg, we knew you could do it, here you go, bro” Adams: “And then, but the biggest thing was that I didn’t hear anything after that. So I basically was already la-la-la-la-la, you know, once the season ended. But there was no follow-up, there wasn’t a lot of talks going on. I didn’t know, there was nothing for almost two months” “And I’m thinking, okay, well, I must just be a regular dude to them, so I’m about to go. And then they think that, you know, tagging me was the next op, after basically playing for Lloyd’s on the tag the year before that. So I’m like, this is obviously not it” “And they was, I don’t know if they was calling my bluff, or just, you know, whatever the idea was, but it just wasn’t working for me. So I just had to plug my ears before I heard a number that made my ass want to stay” Shannon: “And ‘cause you’d heard that number first, like, ‘Okay, I forgive y’all’, hold on, you said what?” Adams: “I just said, ‘Look, we’re going to nip this in the bud, this is what I think is best.’ You know, it end up working out for the Packers, they got a couple good players out of it as well. It is what it is”

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