I think I’ve hated Shaquille O’Neal for just about as long as he’s been in the league. But now he’s taken it to absurd heights yet again. In case you haven’t heard, he signed a 100 million dollar contract with the Heat. Which whatever, if they’re going to pay him that, fine. But he wanted to make sure that he was the league’s highest paid player at least for the next two years. And then the worst?
This quote:
“This contract allows me to address all of my family’s long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship,” O’Neal said.
Whatever, dude. What are your family’s long-term financial goals? To build a swimming pool full of cash? The worst of these statements was mos def Spree’s pronouncement that he had to feed his family. Put food in their mouths.
I want to know who teaches them this b.s. Is it from their agents or did they dream up this crap themselves? Sometimes, I really just hate athletes. If he just said, I wanted a boatland of cash-o-la, then I wouldn’t be as annoyed. But they have to pretend that they are put upon. For making millions of dollars.
His quote should’ve been “This contract allows me to address all of my family’s long-term financial goals while allowing me to still be a shitty, completely unspectacular and totally boring basketball player.” That he gets paid more than the guys who actually *play the game* is incredibly vexing to those of us who would like to believe that the world – even the world f professional athletics – is basically fair. Harrumph!
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