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To: SeekAndFind
...60 percent of NBA players go broke five years after their last basketball-related paycheck...

It's not just in basketball, either. Look at professional boxing. I don't get it. Do they think their career will go one forever and they don't have to plan for when the paycheck stops? Stupid...

11 posted on 02/16/2012 8:39:42 AM PST by econjack
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To: econjack
RE: Look at professional boxing. I don't get it. Do they think their career will go one forever and they don't have to plan for when the paycheck stops?

George Foreman is richer now than when he was the heavyweight boxing champ.


16 posted on 02/16/2012 8:43:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: econjack
I don't get it.

A fool and his money...

33 posted on 02/16/2012 9:01:03 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: econjack

These people have been coddled since middle school, they didn’t have to crack a book in college and now look...


50 posted on 02/16/2012 10:02:08 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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