I'm wondering what's taking so long for Shaq to be there. He loves MIA, he doesn't need the cash, he's an unabashed ring-chaser, he's beef in the middle, has worked with Wade and LBJ, and can coast until Playoff Time.
While he once claimed that he didn't want to be like David Robinson playing in his late 30's with diminished skills, it came out during his divorce that he spends about 900,000$ a month... thats over 10M a year. Dude isn't doing the Icy Hot commercials for the fun of it. I'm sure he's intrigued by the Heat who I'd imagine would want him at what little they can offer, but it's probably a matter of will the endorsement opportunities there make them his most lucrative option. He'd at best be 4th in line at the trough for the local stuff, but maybe the high national profile they figure to have will keep him enough in demand STOMP
Wow...he's need at least 200M in the bank to be pulling that off...and I don't know that he has 200M in the bank. Thanks for the info.
If the SI article about him spending $875,000/mo is correct, he's blowing through $10.5M per year... Figuring $20M annual contract less 10% to agent and 40% to taxes, he's bringing in about $10.8M and has roughly zero margin of error to absorb a [much] smaller contract. I guess the question is, can he change his spending habits? edit: what STOMP said.
