Re: Charity begins at home

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

And I'm supposed to lose sleep over this?  Ewing's comments had nothing 
to do with any financial advice for players, however badly needed that 
might be.  No, he was urging us not to assume, just because someone 
makes an awful lot of money, that he HAS an awful lot of money.  
Understand?  See, he can't be responsible for how he spends his money, 
it's out of his control.  So, please, come along and pay your hard 
earned cash to watch some no-defense-allowed, all-star-jam-fest under 
the guise of helping UNICEF, and also to provide cash for the poor 
underprivileged players of the NBA.  I'd like to see how the cash is 
being divided.  One article I saw said the biggest expense would be in 
providing $20 million worth of insurance for each player against career 
ending injuries.  I want to know just how much UNICEF will see out of 
this.  This makes me sick.

Jim

>From: Douglas342@aol.com
>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:33:09 EST
>To: j.hironaka@unesco.org, bocelts@scsn.net, celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: Charity begins at home
>
>In a message dated 12/7/98 5:32:56 PM Central Standard Time,
>j.hironaka@unesco.org writes:
>
>> 
>>  "If you look at people who play professional sports, not a lot of 
them
>>  are financially secure," Ewing said. "They make a lot of money, and 
they
>>  also spend a lot of money. Me, I'm financially secure, but there a 
lot
>>  of others who aren't. Our objective is to help these people. No 
matter
>>  how much money they've made throughout their careers, if they're in 
need
>>  now, then it's up to us to try and help them."
>-----Maybe not the best timing, but I have no problem with this 
statement.
>Lots of these guys are "virtually unscarred by education" (a memorable 
line
>from an old SI describing Jim Taylor of the Packers) and are suddenly
>millionaires.  They have no clue how to handle a net check of $50,000 
every
>two weeks and do dumb stuff like own eight cars, or build 50,000 square 
foot
>houses and the like.  If the NBAPA can set up financial counselling for 
them,
>that's fine by me.  
>    Pro athletes in general are well paid by current standards and 
always have
>been, but there are many, many former pros who were ill-advised and are 
now
>destitute or living on the edge.
>


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