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Despite making more than $40 million, Clinton Portis is broke
NBC Sports ^ | December 19, 2015 | Michael David Smith

Posted on 12/19/2015 6:15:51 AM PST by C19fan

Clinton Portis made enough money during his NFL career in Denver and Washington that he should be set for life: In nine NFL seasons, Portis made more than $40 million.

But Portis isn’t just not set for life, he’s broke. Portis filed for bankruptcy this week, saying he has debts of more than $5 million that he can’t afford to pay.

(Excerpt) Read more at profootballtalk.nbcsports.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; football; nfl; stupidity
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Typical story, horrible investments, baby mamas (yes plural), gambling, bling, and family members. I think these athletes need to set up some trust where they deposit their earnings and they are only given a monthly allowance.
1 posted on 12/19/2015 6:15:51 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Sorry...no sympathy.I've made far,*far* less than 40 million in my life and,while certainly not rich,I'm reasonably comfortable and *completely* debt free.
2 posted on 12/19/2015 6:20:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: C19fan

As Nick Papagiorgio said, “an entourage is expensive.”


3 posted on 12/19/2015 6:21:50 AM PST by Fair Paul
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To: C19fan

How does he owe his mother 500k?


4 posted on 12/19/2015 6:22:33 AM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: C19fan

Not only that, it’s the homies they grew up with and promising them that they’re going to be “taken care of.” Same happened with Allen Iverson, who had a huge entourage clinging to him everywhere.


5 posted on 12/19/2015 6:23:15 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: C19fan
Bet his agent is doing OK, though.

And don't forget his uncle Sam. He's rolling in it these days, too.

6 posted on 12/19/2015 6:28:34 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ (Obama lied, people died - Holiday Edition)
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To: C19fan

Having a posse is expensive.


7 posted on 12/19/2015 6:32:30 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: C19fan
I think these athletes need to set up some trust where they deposit their earnings and they are only given a monthly allowance.

Ah yes, the Bernie Sanders plan!

8 posted on 12/19/2015 6:34:31 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Another example of socialism at work!


9 posted on 12/19/2015 6:34:52 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: C19fan

When you get your first paycheck and go straight to the Ferrari dealer...


10 posted on 12/19/2015 6:36:52 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: hattend
Eddie Murphy never shied away from mocking that culture.


11 posted on 12/19/2015 6:38:04 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ (Obama lied, people died - Holiday Edition)
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To: JohnLongIsland

Forget that. Have them bring samples to the crib.


12 posted on 12/19/2015 6:38:44 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ (Obama lied, people died - Holiday Edition)
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To: C19fan

There’s a name for that kind of rich.....


13 posted on 12/19/2015 6:38:50 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: C19fan

Take away half a billion dollars and Roger Staubach will be flat broke.

Emmitt Smith still has the first silver dollar he ever made, complete with his finger dents in the rim.


14 posted on 12/19/2015 6:39:05 AM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Vaquero

Think the word starts with “N” ......


15 posted on 12/19/2015 6:46:05 AM PST by njslim
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To: C19fan

40 million minus federal and state taxes = 24 million app left

40 million minus 10 % agent fee = 4 million = 20 million left.

Seriously, who could live on 20 million / S


16 posted on 12/19/2015 6:50:02 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: njslim; Vaquero

Actually n rich refers to an otherwise impoverished person who suddenly gets a windfall of several thousand dollars, say 5 or 6 grand.

$40 million is definitely NOT n rich!!! 40 mill is just plain RICH, really and truly rich.


17 posted on 12/19/2015 6:54:26 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: Fair Paul; All

yup...read this story (except for some verbal diarrhea in the middle its a great article) about Tyron Smith of the Dallas Cowboys from November last year on ESPN...he basically told his family “no more”...showed it to a friend who was working 80 hours a week and bankrolling her family on $60K a year- she said “enough” after reading it...

Financial requests overwhelm Smith

HERE’S A CHALLENGE: Imagine what it feels like to be 21 years old, extremely successful, famously wealthy, wildly stressed and unbearably miserable. How, you might wonder, can all those conditions exist simultaneously?

Start here, with Cowboys All-Pro offensive tackle Tyron Smith, talking to his mother on the phone one day in 2012, his second year in the NFL, during a time of growing tension between him and his family over money issues.

“We’ve found a house,” Frankie Pinkney told her son.

By this stage, wariness had become as intrinsic to Smith’s identity as his brown eyes and bookcase shoulders. Silently, he awaited details. He had agreed to purchase a home in Southern California for his mother and stepfather. They would live in it; he would own it as an investment. The agreed-upon budget was roughly $300,000, but over the course of the conversation, Frankie dropped the bomb. List price: more like $800,000.

Smith, now 23, is sitting at a polished wood table in the conference room of his lawyer’s Dallas office. Surrounded by his girlfriend, financial adviser and lawyer, he fixes his eyes on a spot somewhere high on the floor-to-ceiling window. “Yeah, my parents wanted a house,” Smith says. “But it was way bigger than mine and cost way more than mine.”

It’s not an easy topic for Smith to discuss — recounting the conversation appears to be nearly as hard as being on the phone in the first place. He long ago gave up trying to pinpoint when it all went wrong, when the combination of family and money turned corrosive, when one ceased to exist without the other. He recites facts, stripped of emotion, as if determined to turn a painful time in his life into an after-action report.

“That call,” he says. “That was the point where I said, ‘That’s enough.’”

At that precise moment, as he hung up the phone without giving his mother assent or encouragement, something hardened inside him. Reclaiming his finances, that was the easy part. Demystifying his new life — being something other than a conduit for the wishes of those around him — that was more complicated.

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HE PLAYED ALONG with the myth. Everyone else was, so what choice did he have? When he was chosen No. 9 in the draft, he was 20, the youngest player in the NFL. He signed a four-year, $12.5 million contract, bought his mom a Range Rover and vowed to pay off his parents’ mortgage and retire the family’s debts. “I didn’t think I owed them anything,” Smith says. “I just really wanted to help out. I know how hard the struggle is, and growing up we always had to worry about debt. That was my thing: Use this money to pay off your house, pay your debt and be free of all that stuff.”

Later, Smith discovered the money he provided wasn’t used for those purposes. Asked how it was spent, Smith shrugs, betraying no emotion. “We don’t know,” he says. A direct line could be drawn connecting that moment to the moment he hung up the phone because it marked the beginning of a gradual erosion of trust and control. His humanity vanished beneath a barrage of requests. He was no longer son or brother or friend. He began to feel like a human Santa list, robbed of his capacity to be generous.

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AFTER HIS ROOKIE year, Smith was moved from right tackle to left, a huge promotion in an offensive lineman’s world. When he texted his parents to tell them, the response he received did not convey joy or congratulations. Instead, it referenced his next contract and how it would be bigger now that he was playing a more valuable position. “It was hard to have a straight-up conversation,” Smith says. “I love my family — I do — but I didn’t love what they became.”

A financial adviser who works with numerous professional athletes says, “As players get more, their families want to be paid more. People lose their humanity. We call some family members ‘backup point guards’ because that’s how they believe they should be paid.”

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/hotread141125/dallas-cowboys-tyron-smith-gets-control-battling-family-money


18 posted on 12/19/2015 6:55:04 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Vaquero

Same name for all kinds of situations that result in a permanent lower lifestyle.

Stupid.


19 posted on 12/19/2015 6:57:22 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Given that the quote you cited indicates the athlete sets up the annuity, I would call it the bad money manger self-rescue plan.


20 posted on 12/19/2015 6:57:26 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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