Posted on 04/29/2022 11:37:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize why I got little playing time and was released,” he said. “But it does take people with a conscience to speak out and say it’s not right.”
“I don’t want to retire at the age of 29,” Freedom said. “Sometimes,” he added, “sacrifice is a very important word, so there are bigger things.”
Did Kanter lose his job because he criticized China’s oppressiveness and authoritarianism? Maybe. The NBA has clear financial incentives to avoid triggering China’s wrath and has sometimes bent to expand/maintain its reach in the country.
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Net worth $55 million. He can play overseas if he’s being blackballed. Or he can count his money until he dies too.
Start, or join, a foundation. I assume he has name recognition. I haven’t watched basketball since Iverson departed from the Sixers...
What a mealy mouthed article. Seemed to be running interference for the NBA.
“Net worth $55 million.”
At 29 y/o.
Then the next year withdraw 4%, and 4%, and 4%. Some years that'll go down, that's okay, that's what the safe funds are there for. Most years it'll go up and his annual withdrawal will too (more than outpacing inflation).
All while Dennis Rodman struggles to pay his bills and has to spend retirement pretending to be our ambassador to NK. LOL
Sports was the last meritocracy to fall….
WTFC?
Net worth $55 million. He can play overseas if he’s being blackballed. Or he can count his money until he dies too.
Start, or join, a foundation. I assume he has name recognition. I haven’t watched basketball since Iverson departed from the Sixers.
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For me it was when Jordan left the Bulls.
I was sorry to see him go from the Celtics. But as a player he was a back bencher with OK talent. The fans liked him.
But, the team has moved on quite well.
Plus, I believe he was paid out for the year…for not playing. Not bad.
Like a lot of other people who decided to play politics, he is paying the price for his stance. He was rewarded at birth through genes the advantage of size and worked during his early years to develope the reflexes and strength to be a better than competent basketball player. He chose to forfeit an opportunity to get an education leaving his sophomore year at Kentucky, to join the NBA to make the big money. And he is an employee of the business. And the NBA has rules. This is where the business judgement rule comes into play.
The NBA is a private organization and the players are not protected b y the first amendment. As the government became more involved in the private sector, an idea known as the “state action doctrine” arose. This doctrine is a concept that the protections of the Constitution will not apply to actions in the private sector unless it is of a “governmental action.” So whatever the players say concerning the politics of their belief, is on them and their private concerns. And if they are under a contract that says they are not to step out and question a sponsor of the NBA, they are at risk. Additionally, they released him for lack of performance, not political speaking. So while putting his foot in his mouth, he allowed his game to dwindle and he lost a job. Simple.
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I think I could scrape by on $55,000,000.
Heartless people on here. The guy is VERY likely being blackballed for speaking out against the most evil regime in the history of Earth, and you tell him he is rich enough to walk away. He is fighting the good fight, and the Rino’s on this board are busy being jealous of his money.
Colon Krapernick gets lifelong moolah, endless press and Enes gets the shitty end of the stick.
He could live a pretty nice lifestyle on 1%.
I have great respect for Mr Freedom.
Fortunately, he can survive, on his money where others, who speak out, of lesser means, cannot.
I don't pay attention to sportsball, but he has my respect.
At the current cost of drugs-—how long will that last???
I understand, things drive me crazy too like a millionaire crying “poor me”. I don’t feel badly for the player, I do hate that the fact that he has earned a lot makes his point seem less worthy. The NBA does bend over to the CCP, and the boys that play this game and the owners must have a mass supply of K-Y jelly because they don’t seem to mind much about that SLAVERY thing. That teeny tiny thing, that dark complected people in America whine and pule about day after day, minute by minute. The CCP is a slave owning society, and the US is following down the path back to that.
Now Enes is free to say what he wants.
Maybe he'll open more eyes and do more good this way.
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