danfantastk32 wrote:TheHartBreakKid wrote:Isiah Thomas will be a cautionary tale that agents will tell their clients regarding how quickly you can lose all your earning potential in the NBA.
Must be hard not knowing where your gonna get your next meal. Perhaps we could all start a gofundme page?
I'm being a smart-*** obviously....but while I do think the guy got hosed by Boston, someone is gonna take him this offseason, and even if it's a paltry $2mil....I think the guy will be able to consider himself one of the luckiest, and wealthiest men on earth.
Yeah....he may not be able to guarantee his offspring great wealth late into the 29th century like Lebron and Durant, but maybe a little little hands-on labor will do the kids some good. Chin up there Isiah. You could go work in one of those awesome Nike factories if it comes to it. I'm sure you know someone, and could get a good reference.
haha it's all relative my dude. Isiah's "earning potential" is based on his careers and craft compared to his peers.
If I'm in med school, studying to become an optometrist, expecting to make 120k a year annually, and right when I get out of med school, optometrist annual salaries become 80k, I would be pissed and feel like I got screwed, even though there are laborers out there that would laugh at my "pain", where I'm earning 80k for diagnosing eye problems for patience in a cool air conditioned room. That doesn't mean I didn't get screwed though, or atleast unlucky. It's not a perfect example by any means, but you get my point.
But yeah
, Isiah will be fine, and he's obviously in the 0.5% of luckiest/wealthiest people that have ever lived, so in the grand scale I feel you, but I can't think of a all star level professional basketball playe that lost more money due to dumb luck circumstances than IT.I do really love the thought of Flloyd Mayweather recieving a call from ESPN or something because Isiah put him down as a reference in his resume