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Originally Posted by abrahamrudy
I don't blame NBA players for being greedy. They have, what, 15 years to make as much as they can? And then it's living off retirement funds from age 38. Not easy when you don't even have a college degree to fall back on.
It's not like the good old days when baseball players had winter jobs. Athletes are dependent upon their sports income for the rest of their lives.
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I weep for them, but on the other hand they only make what someone is willing to pay them. None of us would do it any differently if we were in their shoes.
For those who maintain a mangeable lifestyle alot of them can make enough in a year or two to live very comfortably the rest of their lives. If they get into money trouble it is because of lack of financial discipline and not because they only had 10-15 years of peak earning potential. That is laughable.