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Steph Curry says NBA players are underpaid "I think because the way the CBA is structured right now, we can't participate in equity. And that's a big deal because it’s a partnership with ownership, the league and we're on the short term of that revenue" "The idea that we can't participate in equity while we're playing is a part of why I would say yes, we are underpaid because you want to be able to participate in that rise" "I know we're blessed to be in a position where we're playing basketball for a living, and these are the type of checks that people are earning" "Hopefully sooner than later those rules change a little bit so that players can participate more in the upside of team equity. I think we deserve it"

💪🏋️ The Zidane family has to be the fittest family in the world!

Anecdotal stories and research have an answer, and it's a reality of life you have to face with many things. You simply can't tell if your kid has real potential to go far until they've gone as far as they can. And here's a tale of two ends of it, without using outliers: 1) One on the one end. 60% of high school 5-star recruits make it to the NFL. Ok, so it's a little better than a coin flip, you'll make it *if* you're the best in the country at 18 at your position in high school. But that's still 4 out of 10 of the BEST 18-year-old high school players who don't make it to the NFL. On the flip side of this same story, on average, about a dozen "0-star" players are drafted each year. There are currently 257 draft picks, or 4%. 2) Now, for the other piece of data on this. A longitudinal study of 47 players at a top Spanish academy used bone-age data to classify biological maturation, with career outcomes tracked 15 years later. Late maturers reached professional football at 30.8% vs. 5.6% for early maturers. At follow-up, every player from the cohort competing in a top-5 European league belonged to the late-maturing group. So the answer is pretty much you can't tell until you've maxxed out and you're done developing. This is a valuable life lesson. applicable to a whole host of other things. With that said, you simply can't push someone to this if they don't have the passion, grit, and "rage to master." Economically speaking, for parents, your decision on how much to invest in your kid should have nothing to do with your kid's current ability. Only in their interest and dedication to getting better. Obviously, if your kid is 5'6", at 17, you might want to do something else with the time and money. Then again, Dennis Rodman grew from 5'9" to 6'8" from age 19 to 21, and David Robinson was 5'9" as a HS junior and grew to 7'1".

This moment in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) was when I knew the postmodern deconstruction of our culture was reaching its apex. It’s hard to believe now that this was a real scene.

Bad news, dude: If your kid doesn’t play travel/AAU they have no chance of playing varsity in high school. Only exceptions would be small, rural schools without many players to choose from. Any decent sized high school, every kid on varsity plays travel.