roscoe36
06-18-2007, 07:39 PM
Link courtesy of TrueHoop.
The bling and I - Basketball - Sport - smh.com.au (http://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/the-bling-and-i/2007/06/16/1181414603971.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2)
You gotta love how international players (ie. Darko, Delfino) are more comfortable speaking with their home media. Makes for the kind of fascinating insight you will never read in the domestic news market.
"The smarter guys don't do that. They like to live a regular life and want to retire and be set up. About 80 per cent of them go broke by the time they retire or come close to it.
"We have compulsory tutoring each week where they teach you to manage your money and they tell you about all the things that can happen to you, people trying to take advantage of you, but it's amazing how many guys totally ignore it. I guess if you're a normal person and suddenly you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.
"But it's just the culture over there. I would never want my child to be brought up in an environment like that, where if you have money you're supposed to flaunt it and make everyone jealous.
"The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game."
Bogut may loathe aspects of American culture. But it's not as though he thinks Australia's tall poppy syndrome is a healthy alternative.
The bling and I - Basketball - Sport - smh.com.au (http://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/the-bling-and-i/2007/06/16/1181414603971.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2)
You gotta love how international players (ie. Darko, Delfino) are more comfortable speaking with their home media. Makes for the kind of fascinating insight you will never read in the domestic news market.
"The smarter guys don't do that. They like to live a regular life and want to retire and be set up. About 80 per cent of them go broke by the time they retire or come close to it.
"We have compulsory tutoring each week where they teach you to manage your money and they tell you about all the things that can happen to you, people trying to take advantage of you, but it's amazing how many guys totally ignore it. I guess if you're a normal person and suddenly you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.
"But it's just the culture over there. I would never want my child to be brought up in an environment like that, where if you have money you're supposed to flaunt it and make everyone jealous.
"The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game."
Bogut may loathe aspects of American culture. But it's not as though he thinks Australia's tall poppy syndrome is a healthy alternative.