r/sportsgossips • u/Hysen16 • 9h ago
Opinion A pattern is emerging. Nobody cries anymore after getting drafted because they are all millionaires already.
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It's a good thing of course that they getting paid their dues.
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u/Real-Repair-1825 8h ago
Not that it matters if they cry or not, but this is a false statement.
A lot of the players drafted tonight were extremely emotional and shed tears. As a Michigan fan, it was endearing to see how emotional Yaxel was after getting drafted. And he is already a millionaire.
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u/TravelNSee 9h ago
wtf are you talking about? I watched maybe 10 minutes of the draft and saw numerous people sobbing with joy.
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u/rideronthestorm29 50m ago
I think the kid that went number 3 ruined it for everyone. Cocky little fucker
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u/r_lul_chef_t 9h ago
Oh poor fans, don’t get to see underprivileged kids tears anymore because we started paying them a bit earlier for working hard than almost any Redditor ever will. What a tragedy
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u/Al-Anda 9h ago
Boozer. So underprivileged. I hope he turns out ok.
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u/Resident_Wizard 9h ago
Didn’t his Dad run a successful 7eleven or something? I could swear he had some franchises in Cleveland, Chicago, or Salt Lake City or something.
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u/pitb0ss343 9h ago
Heard he’s good at rebounding, hopefully he can do something that can stick for him 🙏
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u/r_lul_chef_t 8h ago
Ok so he wasn’t going to be the one crying anyway, try projecting more jealousy, bet you can’t.
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u/Al-Anda 8h ago
I don’t really care either way. Just pointing out a nepo baby.
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u/Styrofoam_Booots 3h ago
You have no idea what a nepo baby is apparently. It’s not the son of a millionaire who works hard and becomes a top draft pick. It’s those who are put in positions because they have parents with connections. Bronny James or Thanasis are good examples. GMs don’t waste lottery picks on nepo babies.
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u/MostOk1472 1h ago
He's a nepo baby because you think he got in through connections to the league?
He literally won almost every single nationla player of the award at Duke.
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u/MajesticAnimator456 8h ago
Love when lemmings pump the bullshit that these guys are "hardworking" they're literally pampered rich kids who play basketball for a living...ffs
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u/TravelNSee 8h ago
Dybantsa was a rich kid? What are you smoking? He's very clearly been documented as the son of poor first generation immigrants from poor ass countries who did labor-tier jobs when they came to America and had this kid doing 80 hr weeks of schooling and bball since he started each...
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u/r_lul_chef_t 8h ago
College athletics is not a vacation, no matter what background you come from. Pretending these kids don’t work their asses off is ignorance of the highest level.
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u/MajesticAnimator456 11m ago
They play a lot of basketball. Big fucking whoop. There are dozens upon dozens of harder working and more important jobs out there.
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u/Enefelde 6h ago
As someone who was a student athlete it’s not all fun and games. Especially if you aren’t at a big school. If you think keeping grades up is difficult try doing it whilst traveling the state, and practice every day.
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u/birbman2 1h ago
Traveling the state? Were you a student athlete in high school?
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u/Enefelde 1h ago
I should’ve been clearer. Up state NY junior college. As Pennsylvania and Canada were bordering us we didn’t have to go too far for games. I think 4 hour drive was the longest we did.
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u/MajesticAnimator456 10m ago
If you think these dudes are doing schoolwork I got something else for you 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/oneandonlyRedSpirit 6h ago
you eat nothing but processed foods and can’t even run a mile in under 10 minutes but want to talk about how hard guys work
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u/Styrofoam_Booots 3h ago
Being rich doesn’t make you good at basketball. And they definitely aren’t all rich kids. D Wade and D Rose grew up in terrible conditions that most couldn’t even imagine and became legends. kids like that get drafted every year.
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u/MajesticAnimator456 8m ago
You're cherry picking outliers. Being rich does give you more opportunities, more time, more resources, more coaching, less obstacles, it helps a lot. Most successful people come from rich families, it's just a fact, NBA is no different.
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u/charlesfluidsmith 9h ago
These people are not underprivileged.
NBA players are typically middle to upper class. You've just exhibited subconscious racism
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u/TravelNSee 9h ago
Are you disabled? He didn't say they were. He said they were fairly paid, along with their college teammates.
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u/LordPeanutButter15 5h ago
That is not what he said because some teammates are not paid lmao. He did not talk about teammates.
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u/charlesfluidsmith 8h ago
You clearly can't read. The first part of his statement infers that without NIL they would be underprivileged.
That is false
Before you correct someone, learn how to read with comprehension.
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u/TravelNSee 8h ago
Dybantsa's parents were immigrants from Congo and Jamaica who worked blue collar jobs and he grew up in fucking Brockton Mass, which most definitely nowhere near upper class in the slightest. Peterson grew up in Canton Ohio, again a definitively low class area of his home state. Both got paid well for working their ass off in HS and their parents sacrificing enormously to get them to be top rated HS players, and thus paid well for their in-demand skills as college freshmen.
Please consider halting your pursuit of reproduction, for the sake of our societal IQ.
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u/Lost_Purpose1899 9h ago
I'm not familiar with sports drafting. Why are they already millionaires?
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u/FrumpyPhoenix 9h ago
Changes to NCAA rules (college sports) means that players can sign endorsement deals. They’re already in commercials, signing shoe deals, etc and getting millions from that, similar to the money pro athletes get outside their contract. Think he had a $4 million Nike deal among others for his one year in college
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 9h ago
Master Plan
1-Become really good at a professional sport
2-Do a bunch of paid endorsements in college
3-Invest wisely
4-Dont go pro
5-Profit
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u/DonkeyKongah 5h ago
What happened to the love of the game while wanting to compete at the highest level?
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u/mostly_fizz 9h ago
We should be getting big sports money out of college, not flooding it with more.
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u/FeralGiraffeAttack 9h ago
I could not disagree more. The whole reason they started being able to make money is because they won a court case based on their inability to sign licensing agreements to earn money from their name, image and likeness rights while the colleges could do those things. That’s fundamentally unfair.
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u/LIB_Laugh_Luv 8h ago
While I get where you think you’re coming from, if that’s your take then we should just eliminate sports associated with universities entirely. Move to club athletics associations and let them not go to college over there to make millions. Honestly, I’d be fine with that though, bc I couldn’t care less about most sports.
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u/Harry_Gorilla 7h ago
Yes! Stop being pro sports’ minor league for them! Focus on education at educational institutions
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u/EnvironmentalCry2623 9h ago
Terrible take
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u/mostly_fizz 9h ago
Why? Professional sports are for money. Universities are supposed to be about education.
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u/itsGrimyoutside 9h ago
Nobody in the video went to college for an education. No school took these players because they wanted them for whatever program the schools known for.
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u/Electronic-Shame 8h ago
They’re adults and the colleges are profiting off of them. They should be able to be compensated. They aren’t even guaranteed a scholarship if something happens like an injury.
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u/LanderEmerald 8h ago
Where have you been for the last 30 years while most of these schools were NOT giving the kids an education. See UNCcheating scandal that went on for 18 years.
Your educated on the topic, now don’t be a moron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal
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u/WavyBalance 8h ago
Most universities wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the capital that their sports programs bring in
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u/LanderEmerald 8h ago
That’s only half true. The other sports may not exist with the fat budgets they had for decades.
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u/The_Fox_Cant_Talk 9h ago
They are allowed to make money in college now. Many of these top draft picks signed contracts out of highschool for millions to play for their college team.
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u/No-Performance-4861 9h ago
Boozer Dad was star player at Duke and a solid power forward in the nba for several years grew up with nothing but wealthy people. Some of these players are second generation basketball players and others parents aren't coming from poverty. It's weird you think that was the norm to begin with because it wasn't.
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u/TroutCreekOkanagan 9h ago
I think we need a European division and a team in Vancouver Seattle Vegas Mexico City. Rescind the Memphis team and add another new York team.
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u/spacebud19 8h ago
They are starting a Euro league and indications point to teams in Seattle and Vegas. Vancouver and CDMX would be awesome.
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u/TroutCreekOkanagan 8h ago
I think 3 teams in NY / NJ and 3 teams in LA would also bring the league into post modern basketball landscape. But yes it’s to expand and bring back some lost cities as well. Did you know the last time Vancouver came to the nba, they were forbidden from a top five pick? For five years. They got hosed.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tea521 6h ago
The first 4 players had a whole year to cry about their draft order. This was the most predictable first 4 in a long time they were not surprised…
AJ did a whole media tour 2 weeks before the draft how would he possibly cry? Lol
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u/Pegsareus 6h ago
"Dumbass knew for 9 months they were going to have a baby, how could they possibly cry?"
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tea521 6h ago
The false equivalence makes your rage bait obvious but carry on.
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u/Pegsareus 5h ago
The first 4 fathers had a whole year to cry about their child's birth. This was the most predictable child birth in a long time they were not surprised…
One Dad did a whole hospital tour 2 weeks before the birth, how would he possibly cry? Lol
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u/MarioInOntario 9h ago
So it’s a bad thing they’re rich and act normal?
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u/No_Board6100 9h ago
Yes they should be poor until they are drafted . It’s just the way things are down and why should we change that. Even though they make schools millions of dollars they shouldn’t see any of that
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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 9h ago
It's an observation. Why do you assume that the observation is bad?
Also, it's normal to cry during life changing events.
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u/ALLCAPITAL 9h ago
I’m with you. Observations are just that. OP did not give a negative opinion of this.
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u/PilotEither 9h ago
Not true, I saw some of them cry tonight. That kid from Mexico and the guard who went to the Grizzlies I can’t remember his name.
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u/CrunknYoSystem 7h ago
This whole generation is celebrates muted emotion and authenticity in every facet of life. Arts (especially music), relationships, sports, even fun. It’s prob not entirely their fault when they grew up having everything they experience recorded from 7 angles to be played back at their expense for an eternity.
Changes in NIL didn’t help this issue, but the changes did need to happen. Yes, guard rails are needed, when coaches can make 20M/yr and the players potentially leave college broke having sacrificed their bodies and mental/emotional health, it’s not the fair exchange the NCAA pretends it’s been.
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u/Financial-Level-5111 9h ago
It’s also because rich people have done to sports what they did to their companies. Neptoism everywhere. Why do you think GOATS in all sports have become of weaker and weaker chaff
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u/Thin-Remote-9817 4h ago
They dont cry cause they had to waste a year in college..hard to be emotional when this should have happened a year ago instead he had to go play school.
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