Not just professional athletes
plyrs99 said:
you guys are too hard on the guy. how is he supposed to keep his pool heated, pay insurance on his fleet of expensive cars, pay his tennis coach, the maid, the lawyers, the wife, ex-wives, etc;....sheesh!!! you honestly expect him to wipe his own arse?
get a life latrell! you can be very good, but you are not a $14 mill per player. maybe someone should choke some sense into him! or loosen the corn rows, they seem to be too tight!
i agree with most here. i feel sorry for KG having to be involved with this guy. i guess the success minny had last year, means nadda to latrell! i really hope KG gets his championship some day soon, he really deserves it.
Plyrs99
This happens in all walks of life, people get a little money, then they get a little more and suddenly the begin to demand things, and expect the royal treatment.
I had never seen the parallel before in my real life, but here is an example:
I had a really good friend who I had known for over 20 years. Great guy, from humble beginnings. Graduated University and started working with the bank making $25K/year. Within 2 years he got frustrated, and left the bank.
Landed a great job paying him $50K/year. Less than a year later, the company's top account manager left, and they offered him the positioin. By the end of his first year as the new account manager, he realized that his earnings would top out at close to $150K/year. Over the next couple of years, due to the loss of a couple of other top managers, he inherited a number of larger accounts and his earnings exceeded $250K/yr.
While the guy was really good at what he did, the fact of the matter was that most of the accounts were turned over to him, not developed by him.
Two years later, the company began to have some financial troubles, and started restructuring his comp. This guy screamed bloody murder.
When he found out that he was going to be making half of his last years pay of $250K unless he brought in some new business, he was livid. Had nothing good to say about the company. Left the company within the next 3 months.
Now how do you like that....company invests its time and training on this prick. Doubles his base salary, and then provides him with accounts that earns him 6X his bank salary, but when they ask him to help out, he refuses....
