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We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
Kyrie Irving does not make billions of dollars. No one makes billions of dollars to throw a ball through a hoop unless we consider "selling shoes" and "being in commercials" as some secondary included part of "throwing a ball through a hoop."
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
Kyrie Irving does not make billions of dollars. No one makes billions of dollars to throw a ball through a hoop unless we consider "selling shoes" and "being in commercials" as some secondary included part of "throwing a ball through a hoop."



I dunno man

Max contracts are up there now..like $45-50 million a year

Walkie is more right than wrong
Nets now saying he won't be playing or practicing, home or away. Good for them. Do they still have to pay him?
Space wrote:
Nets now saying he won't be playing or practicing, home or away. Good for them. Do they still have to pay him?
probably
Starsky wrote:
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
Kyrie Irving does not make billions of dollars. No one makes billions of dollars to throw a ball through a hoop unless we consider "selling shoes" and "being in commercials" as some secondary included part of "throwing a ball through a hoop."



I dunno man

Max contracts are up there now..like $45-50 million a year

Walkie is more right than wrong
Kyrie Irving (assuming he relents and plays this season and gets paid) will have made $240million lifetime at the end of his current contract which runs out after next season. At that time he will be 31 years old. He would have to find a team willing to pay him $50mil (your figure for a supermax contract which I honestly do not even think he qualifies for under the CBA) until age 47 to crack a billion.

NBA salaries are exploding and some dude who is an All-Pro player at age 21 and goes on to have a LeBron-esque career will at some point make a billion in on-the-court earnings (Luka Doncic if I had to guess someone specifically) but it ain't going to be an already getting-worse Kyrie Irving.
Sidehatch wrote:
Space wrote:
Nets now saying he won't be playing or practicing, home or away. Good for them. Do they still have to pay him?
probably
Nah, just read they're not, at least not for games in state of NY. I guess "road" games are still tBD if they have the right to withhold payment.
Julian, wrote:
Starsky wrote:
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
Kyrie Irving does not make billions of dollars. No one makes billions of dollars to throw a ball through a hoop unless we consider "selling shoes" and "being in commercials" as some secondary included part of "throwing a ball through a hoop."



I dunno man

Max contracts are up there now..like $45-50 million a year

Walkie is more right than wrong
Kyrie Irving (assuming he relents and plays this season and gets paid) will have made $240million lifetime at the end of his current contract which runs out after next season. At that time he will be 31 years old. He would have to find a team willing to pay him $50mil (your figure for a supermax contract which I honestly do not even think he qualifies for under the CBA) until age 47 to crack a billion.

NBA salaries are exploding and some dude who is an All-Pro player at age 21 and goes on to have a LeBron-esque career will at some point make a billion in on-the-court earnings (Luka Doncic if I had to guess someone specifically) but it ain't going to be an already getting-worse Kyrie Irving.


I'm pretty sure whether Kyrie makes 300 million or more than a billion in his playing career doesn't really prove of disprove Walkie's original point.
Mobius wrote:
I’m not saying Kyrie is wrong (still doing the research for myself) but couldn’t all his fears be accomplished just by tracking his iPhone, online presence etc.? 

Does avoiding getting microchipped like the rest of us even solve the problem?

between our cell phones and our online lives, we are 100% trackable already.  what more these idiots think a supposed microchip is going to enable is entirely beyond me.

Sidehatch wrote:
Space wrote:[font=Verdana] that “secret societies” are implanting vaccines in a plot to connect Black people to a master computer for “a plan of Satan.”[/font]
[font=Verdana]and here I thought we were getting away from Mainframe type of computing technology[/font]
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solid geek joke.[/font]
Space wrote:
Julian, wrote:
Starsky wrote:
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid billions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.
Kyrie Irving does not make billions of dollars. No one makes billions of dollars to throw a ball through a hoop unless we consider "selling shoes" and "being in commercials" as some secondary included part of "throwing a ball through a hoop."



I dunno man

Max contracts are up there now..like $45-50 million a year

Walkie is more right than wrong
Kyrie Irving (assuming he relents and plays this season and gets paid) will have made $240million lifetime at the end of his current contract which runs out after next season. At that time he will be 31 years old. He would have to find a team willing to pay him $50mil (your figure for a supermax contract which I honestly do not even think he qualifies for under the CBA) until age 47 to crack a billion.

NBA salaries are exploding and some dude who is an All-Pro player at age 21 and goes on to have a LeBron-esque career will at some point make a billion in on-the-court earnings (Luka Doncic if I had to guess someone specifically) but it ain't going to be an already getting-worse Kyrie Irving.


I'm pretty sure whether Kyrie makes 300 million or more than a billion in his playing career doesn't really prove of disprove Walkie's original point.
I assure you, there's a massive difference between making billions of dollars and making millions of dollars and the people who don't understand that will never make either. /Julian's America
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid many millions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.


Dos changing it from billions to many millions change the valdiity of Walkie's point?
Space wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid many millions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.


Dos changing it from billions to many millions change the valdiity of Walkie's point?
I’m not clear on Walkie’s point? That money corrupts in general, full stop? Or basketball players in particular are unworthy of making millions? Or that if commas were rainbows we’d all have a unicorn.

Look I’m a smart dude but I understand one does not dissect gossamer and nothing is more gossamer than the meaning of what comes out of the Walkman’s mouth.
Space wrote:
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1447956225971433480

Kyrie just sacrificed more than Kaepernick ever did!


I know don't read the comments….but
You who cheer the Nets on are the same type people who allowed Nazi Germany to happen.


I blame this board when the gas chambers are erected!!
Julian, wrote:
Space wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
We have allowed people who get paid many millions to throw a ball through a hoop, to become this way.

This is all on, sports fans.


Dos changing it from billions to many millions change the valdiity of Walkie's point?
I’m not clear on Walkie’s point? That money corrupts in general, full stop? Or basketball players in particular are unworthy of making millions? Or that if commas were rainbows we’d all have a unicorn.

Look I’m a smart dude but I understand one does not dissect gossamer and nothing is more gossamer than the meaning of what comes out of the Walkman’s mouth.


Gurrrrl, if only you knew, what comes out of my mouth.
Edward Christopher Sheerahan
excontradiction wrote:
Edward Christopher Sheerahan


Last week he performed in London as part of the inaugural Earthshot Prize awards, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
NOBELIUM-hatch wrote:
excontradiction wrote:
Edward Christopher Sheerahan

was this weeks SNL musical guest
https://pagesix.com/2021/10/24/snl-scrambling-to-replace-ed-sheeran-amid-covid-19-diagnosis/


No new SNL this week. Was the 11/6 musical guest. Maybe they will get Jack White again. Though I'd prefer ES.
So when should I get my booster? I got my second shot April 9. I'm technically eligible now, since I have a BMI over 25.

I feel like I could go a few more months, but also feel like once they approve it for little kids and a booster for everyone 40+, it might get harder to get it.