CJ McCollum suggests 150 NBA players are living paycheck to paycheck

[ducks]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/cj-mccollum-suggests-150-nba-211343398.html



The minimum NBA salary, in 2019-20, for a player with no prior NBA experience was eligible for an $893,310 minimum salary with the minimum set at 90 percent of the salary cap.

[ducks]

Those people need to hire tony parker!

[slick'81]

And nobody fuckng cares

[ducks]

Their escorts do!

[daslicer]

Their escorts do!

More like their baby mamas do!

[TDMVPDPOY]

a scrub who plays no minutes for the year... gettin paid just as much as ceos and potus lol...

[Spurtacular]

And nobody fuckng cares

Almost. It's interesting to think about. If they have to sell their mansions and get something more economical like the rest of us, then oh well.

[Spurtacular]

a scrub who plays no minutes for the year... gettin paid just as much as ceos and potus lol...

Doesn't bother me, tbh.

[Obi Juan Kenobi]

Almost. It's interesting to think about. If they have to sell their mansions and get something more economical like the rest of us, then oh well.

Those property taxes...

[Spurtacular]

Those property taxes...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv50FTwbOQE

[XDT76]

If the minimum they got was $800k and they still live paycheck to paycheck, well then majority of them deserves it.

[Em-City]

Maybe those 2-way contract guys

[spurs50_]

Maybe we need to have a telethon for these guys, I don't want them to go to bed hungry or wondering how they're going to pay for their next tattoo.

[Strategic]

Keeping up with the Joneses in the league can stretch ones budget.

[hater]

i already said most of them can continue their careers at the Walmart employee basketball tournaments

[exstatic]

Most people live paycheck to paycheck. Nothing to see here.

[lefty]

Oh noes poor rich people

[Seventyniner]

You can't get a sieve to hold water by pouring more water into it.

[Dex]

Almost like these people should have invested their money better. What a concept.

[Kool Bob Love]

McCollum isn’t a spurs player so why the fuck would we care? Take this shit downstairs.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Most people would like to be forced to survive on $800K per year.


There's not going to be a lot of sympathy from 99% of the population on that one.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

In the famous words of Patrick Ewing NBA players make more money, but they spend a lot too. These people are completely detached from reality.

[dbestpro]

Let them file for unemployment and live off of that like anyone else.

[John B]

19-20 yrs old making $800, yup I feel bad for these guys. Next!

[cjw]

You can live to your lifestyle and not save, or you can live well within your means and pad your savings = retire much earlier. Invest aggressively but don’t get swindled, and compounding is your friend.

[exstatic]

It's funny seeing all of the player trashing going on. Most of you probably have a few hundred at most, and likely nothing in the bank. Pot, meet kettle.

[DPG21920]

It's funny seeing all of the player trashing going on. Most of you probably have a few hundred at most, and likely nothing in the bank. Pot, meet kettle.

I think that is kind of the point. It’s one thing for people to make 40-60K a year to have very little savings; it’s another to make a median salary of 2M in be in the same position as those making 40-60k

But once you dive deeper into the mechanics of WHY people often have little savings, it makes some sense. But still.

[lmbebo]

Depends who that 150 players are? Are they players making millions of dollars ? Are they the fringe players on 10 day contracts? Non guaranteed contracts? Devil in the details. rookie player? 10 year vet?

[exstatic]

Depends who that 150 players are? Are they players making millions of dollars ? Are they the fringe players on 10 day contracts? Non guaranteed contracts? Devil in the details. rookie player? 10 year vet?

That’s one third of the league. 30 franchises X 15 man rosters. I doubt it’s only fringe players.

[baseline bum]

Bailing out the NBA would still be less stupid than bailing out the airlines or especially the cruise lines.

[slick'81]

I mean im sure drew ewwwbanks is struggling

[SAScrub]

a scrub who plays no minutes for the year... gettin paid just as much as ceos and potus lol...

tf did you say about me?

[paperboy77]

Anyone surprised? The problem happens when people actually listen to them.

[phxspurfan]

Who cares, half of the NBA doesn’t deserve to be there anyway. Random dudes from NCAA and at your local gym can smoke these so called best in the world pro athletes

Just look what happened when even the 2nd/3rd stringers went to compete in the world championships last year. They could barely win any games, against random euro scrubs who simply ran plays against them and played normal defense. And didn’t travel and could dribble and shoot.

[K...]

I think it's possible this is just a message to the NBA to not cut salary in May. The NBA paid last months salary at 100% but are leaking a cut coming up. Surely the players are fighting a PR war to protect their earnings.

[exstatic]

I think it's possible this is just a message to the NBA to not cut salary in May. The NBA paid last months salary at 100% but are leaking a cut coming up. Surely the players are fighting a PR war to protect their earnings.

??? The NBA has already announced that they’re paying salaries through April 15, pretty much the end of the season.

[talkspurs]

The Salary is set up to be paid throughout the year. I am guessing July 1st starts the new year.