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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 2062076, member: 2117"] As a side note--one thing that irritates me about Wiggins comments (among many of them...) was the, "we're fighting for bread crumbs" line regarding pay in the pros. This can be endlessly debated, and I understand that it is a tiny fraction compared to what the men make, but by pretty much any measure, making $75k for 3 months of basketball is a pretty sweet deal. Not to mention lucrative overseas contracts, bonuses and endorsements deals. Average that over a year and they're making $300,000. As a 26 year old who has held a traditional/standard job since I was 15, the prospect of being able to play basketball full time while making well over six figures is be a heck of a good deal if you ask me. I'd gladly ditch my desk job to play pro basketball if I was talented enough or was afforded the opportunity. I'm not discrediting all of the hard work, dedication, and demands that goes into being a professional athlete, but I think it's a little obnoxious to call it "bread crumbs" when you're granted an amazing opportunity to making great money (compared to 95% of Americans) and play basketball for a living. Just two cents from an 'average joe' prospective. [/QUOTE]