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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 1007595, member: 430"] "A Sports Illustrated article reports the grim statistics -- [B]78 percent[/B] of NFL players face bankruptcy or serious financial stress within just two years of leaving the game and [B]60 percent[/B] of NBA players face the same dire results in five years." You do realize that he's lucky to take home 35% of that number you posted after taxes and agency fees? It's not like a player of his caliber is lining up the endorsement money. I sure hope he has a better financial advisor now than whomever was advising him from a career perspective when he decided to leave early. Hope he's saving his money for retirement. Not a whole lot a mediocre professional athlete with one year at best of college education can do once that NBA well dries up. [/QUOTE]