Jealous Hearts

"I'm just doin' me playboy! Hate if you want!"

William Penn said, “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” The Swiss playwright, Max Frisch, broke it down like this, “Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” The science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, shut the building down when he said, “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.  Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

I’m always blown away by how much some of these dull cats in the media will hate on a boy for doing his thing! In the ghetto we called it “Throwing salt!” I hear so many sports journalists spitting hate on cats for leaving school early to get paid. Why? Because they're jealous of these young boyz!

I was covering a Pacers game one night on press row and this dun was talking about why Gerald Green should have gone to college instead of coming straight into the league out of high school in 2005! Then I’m listening to a cat on ESPN radio, who shall remain nameless, hatin' on Kentucky's John Calipari for the way he recruits because his players have been getting drafted after one year of school. Now these are sports journalist’s bruh not diehard fans that only think with their hearts! These are cats that have an audience of people that hang on every word they say and then it's like the blind leading the blind!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  Sports is entertainment to only the fans and strictly business to duns that make money off of it including the players and journalists! Sure, they can still be fans of the game but they should have a more intelligent perspective on why boyz do what they do. The whole premise of going to school at any level is to learn enough to get a job that will allow you to take care of yourself for the rest of your life. Right?

So if Gerald Green could come out of school at 18 years old and the NBA was willing to draft him in the first round at No.18 overall why wouldn't he take advantage of that opportunity? He’s been in the league for 8 years and his current salary is $3.5 million! Let’s say he plays for the next two seasons and makes it a cool 10 years in the league riding the pine! Now obviously he didn't come out making that type of bread on an annual basis. So on average let's say he would make just about $2 million per year over his career. That's $20 million bruh!

So again I ask why would he go to college where the NBA scouts would have had a chance to see that he wasn’t as good as they thought he was at 18. Going to school only would have given them more time to poke holes in his game and he probably never would have gotten drafted or drafted as high. He’s not in it for the clown that says he ain’t ready for the league. He’s in it for himself and Big Momma! Who cares what some playa hattin' journalist or fan thinks about whether a boy is ready to go to the league or not? What did the scouts say? If they're paying he's staying playboy! That's real talk!!

I heard this clown on ESPN radio yesterday say that Calipari is recruiting all of these “One and Done” players and they aren’t ready for the NBA but are getting drafted anyway! He goes on to say, “Look at last year’s team (2012) where all of those guys got drafted and the only one that was ready was Anthony Davis! What? Ready to be a superstar or ready to get drafted? Anthony Davis is making $5.14 million, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is making $4.6 million, Terrence Jones $1.48 million, Marquis Teague $1.0 million, Doron Lamb $650,000 and Daruis Miller $473,000! Ready for what homeboy? They’re making a living! If it doesn’t work out they can always go back to school if that’s even what a boy wants to do.

Only so many cats are gonna be superstars in this league bruh! Somebody has to come off of the bench and somebody’s gotta sit on that joint! So why not sit and make a living doing something that you love to do as opposed to sitting in a classroom broke or at this point working a regular job! If they were to stay in school and risk getting hurt or boyz finding out that they weren’t as good doesn’t help anybody but the fans and the owners. The player doesn't benefit at all from that scenario. So why stay?

Why don't you ask Greg Oden if coming out of school when he did made sense. If he'd listened to clowns like these telling him that he needs one more year to develop he'd probably have a college degree by now working a regular job at 7 feet tall looking like an idiot trying to squeeze into a cubical in somebody's office. Now he's got plenty of bread with a net worth of $15 million and he shouldn't HAVE to work day in his life.

And before you fix your mouth to say it. A college degree doesn't guarantee that a boy won't blow all of his bread because I know a whole lot of duns that are broke with degrees.

Go ask Arizona's Jason Gardner, Notre Dame's Chris Thomas or Florida's T. Green if it made sense for them to stay in school for as long as they did?

Let me give you some perspective on just how much bread some of these playa hatin’ journalists are telling boyz to walk away from! A pediatrician makes on average $165,000! Specialists like cardiologists, radiologists or orthopedic surgeons make on average $315,000 per year. Now these duns have gone to undergraduate school, medical school and have done 3 to 4 years of residency to make that type of bread! Not to mention they've got $160,000 in student loans to repay when they get out.

Let’s say the specialist works until he or she is 65. That’s 35 years at an average of $315,000 because they don't start getting paid until they're 30 because they've been in school and training the whole time. They would only make $11.2 million for their CAREERS! I just told you that Gerald Green can make $20 million in 10 years sitting on the bench bruh!

Do you realize that the average salary in America is $29,000! The average salary for a person with a college degree is $53,000! Most people aren't going to make a million dollars in their entire careers bruh and this cat can make 20  times that sitting on the bench in 10 years! You sound like a fool! How much sense does staying in school if given the opportunity to go to the league make to you now? In my Bernie Mac voice, “You jealous somma ma….!”

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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