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CNBC.comEx-NBA star J.R. Smith regrets his old spending habits
‘I could have fed my whole community 10 times over’
For years, two-time NBA champion J.R. Smith spent money with abandon.
He frequented clubs, dropped large amounts of cash on clothes and used the $90 million he made in salary over 16 NBA seasons to pay fines levied by his teams or the league. Now, the former shooting guard says he wishes he’d spent more giving back to his community — and he’s advising young people to learn from his mistakes.
“I could have fed my whole community 10 times over with the money I was just [paying in fines for being] late on the bus,” Smith, 36, said in a February episode of the I Am Athlete podcast, hosted by former NFL player Brandon Marshall.
One of Smith’s biggest regrets, he said: spending tens of thousands of dollars at clubs, when he could have used at least some of that money philanthropically.
“You know how many people you can change [their] lifestyle with $10 million in our hood?” Smith said. “We’d rather go throw $60,000 in the strip club…than go feed 2,500 people in the hood.”
For years, he said, he dwelled on maintaining an image through “designer jackets...jeans [and] book bags.” None of it left him feeling personally fulfilled, he added — which didn’t occur to him until after he won an NBA championship.
“We’re so trained, so embedded to have that Eurocentric mindset, to worry about myself, worry about me, worry about mine,” he said. “When you make over $100 million in your career, is [giving $5 or $10 million] going to change your lifestyle?”
Smith did not immediately respond to CNBC Make It’s request for comment. But, as he pointed out in the interview, “small” amounts of money for high-earners could easily be life-changing amounts of money for others.
kg01 wrote:GT hires Geoff Collins. Happy with it based on what i know about him.
Search handled well by the AD. Didn't get every target embarrasingly dragged into the media like some recent hirings.
Lookin at you, TN.
Apparently also had interest in Norvell and the coach from N. Texas.
Jamaaliver wrote:kg01 wrote:GT hires Geoff Collins. Happy with it based on what i know about him.
Search handled well by the AD. Didn't get every target embarrasingly dragged into the media like some recent hirings.
Lookin at you, TN.
Apparently also had interest in Norvell and the coach from N. Texas.
You nailed it again, kg01.
It's truly amazing how idiotic these young men can be and how damaging they can be to themselves.Jamaaliver wrote:The projected #3 pick in this summer's NBA draft is now implicated in a murder charge!!!