I feel like the player union should negotiate something into the CBA where some percent of players' earnings go into a pension fund that pays out monthly and they don't get access to the payments until they retire from pro basketball. Just enough money to live a comfortable middle class lifestyle. It's so much responsibility for these young kids who come into the league at age 18, 19, 20 with little to no financial education to manage these huge amounts of money, they get in over their heads with bad investments, family asking them for money all the time, spending huge sums on stupid stuff.
The NBPA does do financial literacy programs for its players - focusing on life after the NBA. IIRC they even bring it players like Antoine Walker and Ron Artest to talk about what happened to them. You can lead a horse to water.... Also, a GREAT agent will help a player understand what comes after their NBA career is over. But I def understand your point and it has merit.
lol I actually really like Tate and if we weren’t so deep I’d have no problem with him getting minutes
I think that Tate is underrated by this forum. Decent guy in a crunch if you have injuries. High energy guy that you can use to muscle guys and foul if necessary. There are a lot of worse 10-15 bench players in the NBA.
This is very litle cost for a guy that has no problem being a practice dummy that rarely plays, and when he does get on the floor, gives them everything he's got. No need to break up a perfect match! Jae'Sean, welcome back, you so-called piece of "trash".
This is already in the NBA CBA; players have access to a monthly pension that they can take starting at age 50, that the NBA and the players fund equally (it is taken out of Basketball Related Income, which subsequently defines everything from the minimum salary to the salary cap and luxury tax). It maxes out at up to $200k+ per year for a 10 year veteran, or around $23,000 per year for a 3 year veteran. They match up to 140% of a 401(k) plan with no cap other than the individual by law maximum. They pay all the tuition costs of a 4-year degree after retirement. It is also in the CBA that each team is required to offer the purchase and match of post-career annuities for their players; essentially a monthly payment or personal pension that they can buy using their playing salary that will only pay out once they are involuntarily or voluntarily separated from being an employee of the NBA (retired or cut). The tools are definitely there for the players to set themselves up for life. But at a certain point, you have to let players have access to their own money and make their own investment decisions, as bad as they might be.
Iko reporting Holiday is coming back at the minimum (Jeff Green too). That's a terrific 10th man piece who probably would've had more interest.
Brilliant that TateGarbage and HolidayGarbage and GreenGarbage are all coming back on minimum salaries. It looks like Tate might have signed for just a tick over vet minimum? A tiny bit annoying as it costs us $700k in space under whichever line/apron we want to duck under. I might have that wrong though
All 3 at 1yr vet mins is about as solid as one could ask for. Hard to beat this deep bench crew we have assembled, especially for that cheap.
Continuity friends. Devil you know versus the devil you don’t. If Uncle Jeff, Tate, and Holliday on vet minimum deals are the worst problems we have, we’ve got a pretty good team!! Now, I’ll have a huge problem if Holliday is getting PT over Reed but that’s for a different thread.
Right now, before any new deals: Starters: Fred-Amen-Jabari-Durant-Sengun Bench: Sheppard-Whitmore-DFS-Eason-Adams Stay ready: Holiday-N.Williams?-Tate-Uncle Jeff-Capela that’s a super deep team!
