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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! Growing up in the ghetto we called it “Throwing salt!” I hear so many sports journalists spittin' hate on cats for leaving school early to get paid. Why? Because they're jealous of these young boyz because they don't possess the DNA to play at that level!
Yesterday I wrote the Hot Joint entitled, "Top 10 NonSense" about why if a boy is first round draft eligible that he's ready not only to go the league but ready to get paid!
For example, I was covering a Pacers game last season and sitting next to this dun on press row that was saying that Gerald Green should have gone to college instead of coming straight into the league out of high school in 2005! I constantly hear this 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 that they say. So it's like the blind leading the blind playboy!
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Sports is entertainment to only the fans and strictly business to the 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 make a living. Right?
So if duns like Gerald Green could come out of high school at 18 years old before the league changed the rules in 2005 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 9 years and his current salary is $3.5 million and he's been making that for a few years now! Let’s say he plays for the one more season and makes it a cool 10 years in the league! 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 hatin' 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 playing playboy! That's real talk!!
I heard this other talking head 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 the 2012 team where all of those cats 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. How many duns do you know that are making $473,000 per year? I'm just sayin'!
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 had listened to clowns like these telling him that he needs one more year to develop he never would have gotten drafted because he's knees went south two months after the draft. So he would 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.
Go ask Michigan's Mitch McGary if it made sense to stay in school. Nobody knew his name outside of Ann Arbor before the tournament started last year. Then that dun went nuts for six games and all of a sudden was projected as a No.8 pick and decided to stay. Then ended up having back surgery last fall and hasn't played all year. So guess what playboy? He's gotta go back to school next year and try to catch lightening in a bottle all over again and what's the chance of doing that? Will he get drafted? Probably so but will he be a No.8 pick? Doubt it! Because there's always a crop of new boyz comin' up.
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.
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 for 9 of them because he just got on the floor this year in Phoenix!
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 tellin' a boy to stay in school! How much sense does it make to pass up the opportunity to go to the league after putting that bread in perspective now? In my Bernie Mac voice, “You jealous somma ma….!” Stop me when I start lyin'!
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