Among the professional sports in various countries in the world, the NBA is very successful in globalization, which has driven the sales of league and team peripheral products and the increase in broadcast rights, etc., making the salary level of NBA players also rank among the best among global athletes.A report released by the US media this yearList of top 100 earning athletes in the worldAmong them, there are 4 NBA players in the top 10, and 36 of the 100 people in the complete list are from the NBA. Taking the latest 2022-23 season as an example, the average salary of the NBA has reached nearly 6.4 million US dollars (approximately NT$1.9 100 million yuan), it can be seen that the “salaries” of the players are very good.
Therefore, we can often see that when players show up in the arena on the match day, they often drive supercars or luxury cars worth tens of millions, and they are covered with famous brands all over their bodies. In terms of their salaries, these luxury goods Spending is like change in our pockets.
NBA players “go to the stadium by themselves” on the game day when they play at home. Most of the players will drive to the stadium by themselves. After parking, they will go to the lounge to change their playing equipment. Afterwards, it was uploaded to the team’s social media. Such a “big show” link has become a regular link for professional teams to interact with fans. Players also know that they will be photographed, so they will pay special attention to their own appearance. outfit.
However, there is one exception among the more than 400 players in the league. He is Herbert Jones of the New Orleans Pelicans. The money-free clothes “published” by the team seem very out of place.
Jones was born in 1998. His father is a basketball coach, so he has been exposed to basketball everywhere since he was a child. He joined the school team to receive formal training in the seventh grade (the first grade of middle school). The school’s basketball coach is his father. . In high school, he won the best player of the year in the US 4A class and led the school to win the first state championship in school history. Jones’ good performance also attracted the attention of many famous basketball schools. Among the many first-tier schools, he chose the University of Alabama in his hometown (University of Alabama).
In his senior season, he won many awards, such as the player of the year, the first team of the year, the best defensive player and the first defensive team of the team’s Southeast Conference (Southeastern Conference), so he also announced his commitment to 2021. In the NBA draft, he was selected by the Pelicans with the 35th overall pick in the second round, which started Jones’ career. He also had a good performance in the rookie season.
This year is Jones’s second professional season. He has become one of the team’s starters. Although his annual salary is not as good as the league average of 6.4 million US dollars, it is far more than the average income of 1.78 million US dollars (about NT$54 million). Jones, on the other hand, often wears free clothes printed with the team name and team logo on the occasions where he can wear casual clothes. After a lot of money, I bought a supercar “smoothly” to reward myself.
Why on earth is Jones saving so much?
It turned out that the main reason for him to save money was to save these extra “dressing expenses” for his children. He hoped that with the salary he earned in the NBA, his children and even grandchildren could study without any worries. the University. Therefore, Jones believes that it is too wasteful to spend on dressing up just for the short distance from the parking lot to the court lounge, because he will immediately change into jerseys, pants and basketball shoes in the lounge, so he would rather wear simple and comfortable clothes.
In the same way, Jones also holds the same concept about the car. His only requirement for the car is that it can take him to and from the arena. Unless one day it breaks down, there is really no need to replace the old car from college. car.
Do you think these are all the ways Jones saves money? What is even more exaggerated is that most NBA players will go back to their hometowns or villas for vacation during the off-season, so that they can take a good rest after working hard for a season. As the “governor”, Jones only returned to his hometown of Alabama for only one day. The distance between the two places is about 4 hours by car. This man actually went back and forth on the same day.
Willing to fight so hard is of course inseparable from money, just because Jones “doesn’t want to spend money”. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that he doesn’t want to spend faster plane transportation, but that Jones doesn’t want to pay for a physical coach, rent a basketball court, go to the gym, etc. when he goes back to his hometown for vacation, so he chooses to stay in New Orleans ( New Orleans ), so that you can use the relevant training equipment and courts of the Pelicans for free, without spending any dime in your own pocket.
What’s more domineering is that Jones usually spends almost no money except for food expenses. He firmly believes that such a “throttling” approach can make his family live a better life, so he doesn’t care what the outside world thinks about him on camera. I still wear “public hair equipment” before. And his teammate and Pelicans star player Zion Williamson expressed great respect for Jones’s “being yourself” money-saving move.
Every newcomer selected in the first round of the NBA team enjoys a guaranteed contract of at least 2 years. Someone who comes in means someone is going to leave. For players like Jones who are not the main player, the next contract will always have a certain amount of money In addition to the variable age, as many as 60% of NBA players went bankrupt within 5 years after retiring because they could not change the habit of “spending money like water”. The high salaries of athletes often come and go quickly, perhaps moderately. They can stay out of bankruptcy if they look up to “Premier” Jones.
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