As usual, Charles Barkley's stupidity in commentary rivals the heights of his play on the basketball court.
The people who are ignorant fools are the athletes that never think about life after hoops.
As always, I must remind people that for these guys basketball is a job - not just a hobby or a past time.
Some guys make a living digging trenches, driving trucks or moving boxes. These guys make a living playing basketball. This very game they play is what pays their bills. It's what puts food on the table, a roof overhead, a car in the driveway.
Some jobs expect you to make more compromise (or take more risk) than others do. As a result, these jobs often pay substantially more.
For example a manager/supervisor may get paid more than a general laborer - but then that manager / supervisor may also have to take on more responsibility, deal with more stress, work longer hours, etc.
If you value your lifestyle too much and don't want to accept that extra stress/responsibility that a higher pay job may require then the solution is simple - quit your job, get a regular job like everybody else. You get paid less, but you also stress less. Don't accept the manager position, accept the extra money, and then spend your days complaining the hours and the stress levels.
Same deal here. If you're getting paid unfathomable amounts of money for your job, then shut up and deal with it. Otherwise retire, forfeit your sizeable income, and work a regular job like everybody else.
I'm tired of hearing professional basketball players complain about having pain, or complaining about getting unfairly treated in the media, or complaining about financial struggles. You know what you're getting into before you sign the dotted line, so either:
a) Shut the mouth an deal with it or
b) Get another job
These people get to live in luxury every day of their lives. They get to put their kids through the best universities in the world. They get to send their family on every holiday they can imagine anywhere in the world. They get VIP access to restaurants and venues that only celebrities get. They get to retire in lavish luxury at the age of 35, having owned just about anything and everything they have ever dreamed of. If they play their cards right then their parents, their siblings and their children will never have to struggle financially a day in their lives.
THIS is what you are sacrificing for.
He isn't playing through pain solely for his love of the Chicago Bulls uniform. He isn't playing through pain so that he can set records and make his name in history. He isn't playing through pain so that he can stand there with his teammates while they receive their championship rings together.
No, that's not the only reason he should be busting his butt. He should be busting his butt for his team because they are the ones who pay him his $20m a year, and it's that $20m a year that ensures that he (and everybody he loves and cares about) are taken care of
for the rest of their lives.
If going to your son's graduation with a limp or going in to meetings with a sore leg is what you have to do in order to allow your family (and every future generation that comes after them) to live an amazing life of comfort and luxury the for goodness sake that is what you do.
If you don't care that much about your family that you don't want to sacrifice a bit of leg pain to give them that amazing life, then there are many other jobs out there which pay substantially less, but won't require you to make such sacrifices.
There are men and woman out there who would give life and limb for the opportunity to provide that type of life for their family - this kid gets to give his children the best life imaginable and complains about a bit of leg pain. What a whiny, childish little brat.
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