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Message: [QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 2567564, member: 519"] 60 percent of NBA players file for bankruptcy within five years after they stop playing. The NFL figure is nearly 80 percent. The fact is most have never been in the non-athlete workplace, have been showcased their entire lives, don't have an education and most likely no money. They actually do flake out and live in a cardboard box, figuratively speaking. Yea, sure they can go back to school, coach, open their own businesses or anything they want. They can also have a fricken gold plated toilet seat...But there are only a handful of coaching jobs available every year, only 10 percent go back to school (and most of those are the high profile players) and less than 10 percent of new businesses make it past the first year, and that's for people who have been in the work world. Those are the facts, sadly enough. Most players in any sport are set adrift after they stop playing. [/QUOTE]