But how can you say no to a face like this... At least Kosta Koufos overcame his facial adversity to become a legitimate NBA player...
Yeah, it is pretty ridiculous, even when people try to tell you about "agent %'s, taxes, hangers-on, etc." That's missing the point of how these people mismanage their money. I really have no sympathy for Swift. He capitalized on the HS-to-pro trend, never really proved anything, could never really play, and amassed 11+ mill in salary in just a few years of playing the process. Now it's like he's trying to cling to some collegiate youth that he never had. There are a lot sadder stories of bankruptcy in pro sports. This one's just amusing. He's like Birdman without the career.
You feel bad for someone like Barkley though, who was legitimately conned by his manager. Seems to me, if you have any chance at all of going pro, you should really take some business classes and learn about finances.
Erick Barkley? I guess not being a Blazers diehard I missed out on that backstory... what happened there? BTW - I've got to disagree with you about taking business class and learning about finances. When you're in a potential pro athlete's position, the things you learn in those classes are pretty much useless. For the future pro athletes, it's really all about judgement and prudence at the end of the day. You can learn the inner-workings of a company's books, you can learn complex formulas to project financial trends, but at the end of the day, none of that really serves a real life purpose to these players. The idea that taking a few business classes in some way prepares these guys for the future is a farce. At the end of the day, it's their personalities and judgments in hiring their management team that really matter.
Charles Barkley. I had an auto-biography somewhere that was from the late 80's or early 90's where he talked about it. It was a long time ago when he was younger. I'm trying to find something about it but I don't think he really likes talking about it.
I'm not sure whats funnier. The fact that these uniforms are an obvious knock off of the Lakers uniforms, or that this guy is white trash. And yeah, that guy is a scary looking mother fucker. Not in the sense that he'd mug you or beat you up, but that he'd take you, chain you up against the wall and slowly eat your skin off your body. And wear your scalp like a hat. And vivisect you. And then have sex with you. Cut you up, put you in a blender, and shoot it up into his veins like a drug. And wear his mothers clothing.
He's from where I spent my high school and some of my college days, San Bernardino County. Sweaty loco locals call it "the armpit of the world." Bakersfield is 300,000 people pressed together in the middle of the desert. The genius Sonic scouting system, put together by Wally Walker, surprised the league by taking him with such an early pick. They were always surprising the league. The awful team needed someone who could produce now, so they'd draft a project. As a rookie he was ridiculed for his short red hair and acne. See the picture in Post #4. Next year, long hair and injuries. Third (I think it was his last?) year, tattoos. Career-ending injury. It contributed to the Sonics crash. Fans saw that they kept drafting busts and waved them goodbye. The 2007 financial bust made paying your mortgage cost more than refunding your property to the bank. There hadn't been many bankrupt NBA players until then. Bad investments by 20-year old jocks, what a surprise.
had a decent year statwise as a 20 year old money for nothing and chicks for free, cant really blame the guy
Well at least he left the house in decent shape... http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Trash-bullets-and-feces-found-in-former-Sonic-robert-Swifts-squalid-home-195203241.html
