JR Smith named Academic Athlete of the Year (4.0 GPA)

[DeBrick]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

[CobraCommander]

only reason I went to law school is so I could join my father in his private practice. That was 25 years ago. he just retired in January so now it's just me and my younger brother running the show. Or, trying not to burn it all down while my father is still alive is probably more accurate.


And public defenders aren't doing lords work. 99% of them are just lazy and don't want to go get a real lawyer job that would require them to work more than 35 hours per week.

Based on this take, it doesn’t sound like you’re an attorney. Public defenders, at least here in NY, work way way more than 35 hours per week. Also pretty hilarious that you calling someone lazy while you safely worked for daddy.


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Public defenders' offices in every state are massively underfunded. Public defenders are usually working on 20+ cases at a time. And if you're a public defender in a really **** state (anywhere in the south) you could have more than 100+ cases at a time.

I got a Public defender friend in NYC and she is doing alllll of the lords work and her boy friend is covering most of the bills because she don’t make that much. She back and forth on the subway - fighting for guys that would literally push right past her on the street because she believes in something...and she went to GW so you know her college loans ain’t no where near paid off. I got nothing but respect for people that get educated and THeN put their time where their heart/mouth is...even if I can’t do it....I’m working for those good playoff seats - real talk

[shakes0]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

a lot of them try, but it's not that easy. You have to be really really good to even be a non touring pro at a club, let alone a pro trying to make money from playing. Those guys spent their 20s and 30s playing and practicing 8 hours per day. Hard for a basketball player to make up that ground when they retire in their mid 30s.

[dhsilv2]

Based on this take, it doesn’t sound like you’re an attorney. Public defenders, at least here in NY, work way way more than 35 hours per week. Also pretty hilarious that you calling someone lazy while you safely worked for daddy.


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Public defenders' offices in every state are massively underfunded. Public defenders are usually working on 20+ cases at a time. And if you're a public defender in a really **** state (anywhere in the south) you could have more than 100+ cases at a time.

I got a Public defender friend in NYC and she is doing alllll of the lords work and her boy friend is covering most of the bills because she don’t make that much. She back and forth on the subway - fighting for guys that would literally push right past her on the street because she believes in something...and she went to GW so you know her college loans ain’t no where near paid off. I got nothing but respect for people that get educated and THeN put their time where their heart/mouth is...even if I can’t do it....I’m working for those good playoff seats - real talk

In my small world of knowledge, there are some great public defenders. They move on to bigger and better things eventually. The career ones...well lets just say an over 40 public defender is going to raise a few red flags if I needed one.

[The High Cyde]

Dang, congrats to Smith! 4.0 ain’t easy lol I should know I ate **** in college hahaha

[CobraCommander]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

You can compete at golf seriously and never play on the PGA...there are club pros that will regularly beat a pga pro if they play at the club pros course. And money changes hands - enough to where it’s serious enough. You would be surprised that clubs that have tour pros as members don’t always have the tour pro win the club championship- There are some realllly good golfers- off tour.

Problem is can you put 4 rounds together consistently-

I’m surprised he competing publicly

[CobraCommander]

Public defenders' offices in every state are massively underfunded. Public defenders are usually working on 20+ cases at a time. And if you're a public defender in a really **** state (anywhere in the south) you could have more than 100+ cases at a time.

I got a Public defender friend in NYC and she is doing alllll of the lords work and her boy friend is covering most of the bills because she don’t make that much. She back and forth on the subway - fighting for guys that would literally push right past her on the street because she believes in something...and she went to GW so you know her college loans ain’t no where near paid off. I got nothing but respect for people that get educated and THeN put their time where their heart/mouth is...even if I can’t do it....I’m working for those good playoff seats - real talk

In my small world of knowledge, there are some great public defenders. They move on to bigger and better things eventually. The career ones...well lets just say an over 40 public defender is going to raise a few red flags if I needed one.

I’m just saying lawyers and teachers and professors and other people that work for the common good of people - while those same people could care less about them are worthy of honor- especially if they have no power in that position...they just get up and work and come home and do it again. Only perk is helping people...

[CobraCommander]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

a lot of them try, but it's not that easy. You have to be really really good to even be a non touring pro at a club, let alone a pro trying to make money from playing. Those guys spent their 20s and 30s playing and practicing 8 hours per day. Hard for a basketball player to make up that ground when they retire in their mid 30s.

What you said...lol

[shakes0]

I got a Public defender friend in NYC and she is doing alllll of the lords work and her boy friend is covering most of the bills because she don’t make that much. She back and forth on the subway - fighting for guys that would literally push right past her on the street because she believes in something...and she went to GW so you know her college loans ain’t no where near paid off. I got nothing but respect for people that get educated and THeN put their time where their heart/mouth is...even if I can’t do it....I’m working for those good playoff seats - real talk

In my small world of knowledge, there are some great public defenders. They move on to bigger and better things eventually. The career ones...well lets just say an over 40 public defender is going to raise a few red flags if I needed one.

I’m just saying lawyers and teachers and professors and other people that work for the common good of people - while those same people could care less about them are worthy of honor- especially if they have no power in that position...they just get up and work and come home and do it again. Only perk is helping people...

you can do the "lord's work" and work for the public good and still make good money in the process. That's what my job is. I do work comp law representing injured workers. Most of those people are blue collar, uneducated hard workers who bust their asses for low pay, get hurt and then get taken advantage of by big insurance companies. Those people need protection just as much as indigent rapists and murderers.

Insurance companies are always trying to screw over the little guy. I step in and make sure that doesn't happen. Have a great recent story along those lines. Had a nice spanish speaking gentleman come visit me one day. He worked for the same factory for 30 years, never missed a day. Tore his shoulder and filed for work comp. Insurance company accepted the claim, paid all his medical bills and even paid him weekly work comp with on fight. He said they were very very nice to him. he was happy with the $500 per week work comp checks he was getting. Then they called him out of the blue and offered him $18,000 to settle his case for his permanent disability. He was confused and decided to come talk to me.

Within 20 minutes I had uncovered that they should've been paying him $1000 per week, not $500. The backpay they owed him alone was $21,000. He signed with me and 3 months later I settled his case for over $90,000. After my $18,000 fee (20%) he walked away with $72,000 tax free cash. For a blue collar non English speaker with a family to support.

So doing the lords work comes in all shapes and sizes and there is no rule you can't be well paid for doing it.

[LuDux1]

[jfs1000d]

Good for this guy. Love that he is willing to go back to school and learn.


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[CobraCommander]

In my small world of knowledge, there are some great public defenders. They move on to bigger and better things eventually. The career ones...well lets just say an over 40 public defender is going to raise a few red flags if I needed one.

I’m just saying lawyers and teachers and professors and other people that work for the common good of people - while those same people could care less about them are worthy of honor- especially if they have no power in that position...they just get up and work and come home and do it again. Only perk is helping people...

you can do the "lord's work" and work for the public good and still make good money in the process. That's what my job is. I do work comp law representing injured workers. Most of those people are blue collar, uneducated hard workers who bust their asses for low pay, get hurt and then get taken advantage of by big insurance companies. Those people need protection just as much as indigent rapists and murderers.

Insurance companies are always trying to screw over the little guy. I step in and make sure that doesn't happen. Have a great recent story along those lines. Had a nice spanish speaking gentleman come visit me one day. He worked for the same factory for 30 years, never missed a day. Tore his shoulder and filed for work comp. Insurance company accepted the claim, paid all his medical bills and even paid him weekly work comp with on fight. He said they were very very nice to him. he was happy with the $500 per week work comp checks he was getting. Then they called him out of the blue and offered him $18,000 to settle his case for his permanent disability. He was confused and decided to come talk to me.

Within 20 minutes I had uncovered that they should've been paying him $1000 per week, not $500. The backpay they owed him alone was $21,000. He signed with me and 3 months later I settled his case for over $90,000. After my $18,000 fee (20%) he walked away with $72,000 tax free cash. For a blue collar non English speaker with a family to support.

So doing the lords work comes in all shapes and sizes and there is no rule you can't be well paid for doing it.

Agreed and I’m happy to hear you helping people- impressive!

[jfs1000d]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

You can compete at golf seriously and never play on the PGA...there are club pros that will regularly beat a pga pro if they play at the club pros course. And money changes hands - enough to where it’s serious enough. You would be surprised that clubs that have tour pros as members don’t always have the tour pro win the club championship- There are some realllly good golfers- off tour.

Problem is can you put 4 rounds together consistently-

I’m surprised he competing publicly

I had a really good golfer friend in college. He went in the Florida tour after school.

They had 3 day events at the time. He said, every week, after the first round there was a new name leading the tour.

By the end of 54 holes? Damn it if it wasn’t the same guys every week competing for the top 10. He said, looking at the leaderboard, the guys who made it were always hanging around.

You kind of know what level you are by how consistent you are. He gave up and became a club pro.


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[CobraCommander]

i find it surprising that more professional athletes don't seriously compete in golf after they retire from their sport.

You can compete at golf seriously and never play on the PGA...there are club pros that will regularly beat a pga pro if they play at the club pros course. And money changes hands - enough to where it’s serious enough. You would be surprised that clubs that have tour pros as members don’t always have the tour pro win the club championship- There are some realllly good golfers- off tour.

Problem is can you put 4 rounds together consistently-

I’m surprised he competing publicly

I had a really good golfer friend in college. He went in the Florida tour after school.

They had 3 day events at the time. He said, every week, after the first round there was a new name leading the tour.

By the end of 54 holes? Damn it if it wasn’t the same guys every week competing for the top 10. He said, looking at the leaderboard, the guys who made it were always hanging around.

You kind of know what level you are by how consistent you are. He gave up and became a club pro.


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Yeah...that’s though work too...hawking golf clubs and kids classes - or teaching unathletic Chad and Todd’s lol