Tyrese Martin first NBA basket

[awfuldan]

In garbage time of the Atlanta Hawks/Charlotte Hornets game, Tyrese pump faked into a pull-up deep two for his first NBA points!

James Bouknight also had his best game of the young season (not saying much unfortunately), scoring 10 points on 9 shots and registering a +20 in plus/minus.

 

[awfuldan]

 

[husky429]

In garbage time of the Atlanta Hawks/Charlotte Hornets game, Tyrese pump faked into a pull-up deep two for his first NBA points!

James Bouknight also had his best game of the young season (not saying much unfortunately), scoring 10 points on 9 shots and registering a +20 in plus/minus.

Still not great for Bouk... 3/9 from the field and 4 fouls in 18 minutes. Definirely a step in the right direction, however.

Couldn't be happier for Rese. He's got a few million coming his way in the next two years. If he's smart, he'll live comfortably for a while.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

He’s definitely the type of player that can benefit from the spacing in the NBA and be a great 3 and D player. Just gotta keep taking advantage of the opportunities.

 

[Chief00]

Congrats Tyres and James. I think for James any focus towards on-court and away from off-court is a win.

 

[GHSWolverines]

Congrats Tyres and James. I think for James any focus towards on-court and away from off-court is a win.

Let's hope chief

 

[gtcam]

Congrats Tyrese - so many players never get a chance to step on an NBA court to play 1 minute after working towards that moment for most of their lives at that point. Two points are better than none.
Others are gifted with extraordinary athletic ability and feel it is owed to them and act like they are made of Teflon.
Keep working hard TM and good things will come.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Congrats Tyrese - so many players never get a chance to step on an NBA court to play 1 minute after working towards that moment for most of their lives at that point. Two points are better than none.
Others are gifted with extraordinary athletic ability and feel it is owed to them and act like they are made of Teflon.
Keep working hard TM and good things will come.

That's some Burt Lancaster/Doc Archibald stuff right there.

 

[Chin Diesel]

As someone who thought Martin's lack of ability to take a wing off the dribble would keep him from making an NBA roster I will gladly eat crow for every point he makes and every game he suits up.

 

[Kolumbo]

Great for Tyrese! I know the other thread about Bouk is closed but I think it would be great for someone like another kid from a nearby neighborhood, Chris Mullin, pay a visit. Someone in Bouk's camp should make that call.

 

[Umami Zen]

Some guys are just happy to make it to the League. .Others want to make it in the League and have successful careers. Betting on TM to make it in the League

 

[uchusky32]

So awesome! Like many didn't think he was headed to the League. Big props to him. Congrats!

 

[Scrutiner]

He's got the ability to last in the league and hopefully has chosen the right agent and the right financial advisor. TM has shown great discipline in getting to where he is today and if he maintains that discipline and stays in the league for five or more years he'll be set for life!

Remember Antoine Walker, Vin Baker and Allen Iverson and so many others? Let's hope he's not like these fifteen. 15 NBA Players Who Went Broke After Retiring: Where Are They Now?

 

[Improviser]

He's got the ability to last in the league and hopefully has chosen the right agent and the right financial advisor. TM has shown great discipline in getting to where he is today and if he maintains that discipline and stays in the league for five or more years he'll be set for life!

Remember Antoine Walker, Vin Baker and Allen Iverson and so many others? Let's hope he's not like these fifteen. 15 NBA Players Who Went Broke After Retiring: Where Are They Now?

He doesn't have to be like any of them. It's all about choices.

I browsed the link and not to oversimplify, but many of their wounds were self-inflicted by a higher than high lifestyle, multiple kids from multiple women with high child support because of their BB earnings, speculative real estate, and apparently , by not keeping a fair percentage of their earnings in a safer and conservative bucket like T bills or liquid money market accounts, or CD's, or high dividend utility stocks or decent paying bonds.

When you make millions as they did or do, you can keep some in reserve if you can discipline yourself to do it.

Ivy League endowments do have a percentage of high risk investments tempered by a vast majority of decent earning and less risky investments . I guess they make good returns in private equity, which maybe a BB would not be able to.

Hope current and future NBA players can learn from the past mistakes of others.

 

[awfuldan]

Tyrese got his first NBA dunk tonight in garbage time of a win vs the Detroit Pistons. Made a nice cut and Frank Kaminsky found him with the pass. Will post the clip if I find it.

 

[caw]

He's got the ability to last in the league and hopefully has chosen the right agent and the right financial advisor. TM has shown great discipline in getting to where he is today and if he maintains that discipline and stays in the league for five or more years he'll be set for life!

Remember Antoine Walker, Vin Baker and Allen Iverson and so many others? Let's hope he's not like these fifteen. 15 NBA Players Who Went Broke After Retiring: Where Are They Now?

Yeah five years would be fantastic. According to the below, that would net him a minimum of $4,000 a month for life starting at 50 if he chooses to take it. Not set for life, but solid.

Really though five isn't needed, three years is the minimum to be eligible for NBA pension, which is really key to get health benefits for life.

How NBA pensions work

Breaking down the NBA’s pension program and other benefits for retired players (such as health insurance and college-tuition reimbursement).

hoopshype.com

By the above, Walker, Baker and Iverson should be eligible to get nearly 100k a year now, or soon, if they choose to take it. Also Walker has a job as a consultant. Baker is an NBA assistant and makes mid-six figures and I swore Iverson had an annuity/trust which paid him a million annually. So broke is relative.

 

[MTBingNinja]

Is he still wearing the tag on the outside of his arm sleeve?

 

[tomtom80]

Yeah five years would be fantastic. According to the below, that would net him a minimum of $4,000 a month for life starting at 50 if he chooses to take it. Not set for life, but solid.

Really though five isn't needed, three years is the minimum to be eligible for NBA pension, which is really key to get health benefits for life.

How NBA pensions work

Breaking down the NBA’s pension program and other benefits for retired players (such as health insurance and college-tuition reimbursement).

hoopshype.com

By the above, Walker, Baker and Iverson should be eligible to get nearly 100k a year now, or soon, if they choose to take it. Also Walker has a job as a consultant. Baker is an NBA assistant and makes mid-six figures and I swore Iverson had an annuity/trust which paid him a million annually. So broke is relative.

Great article on how progressive NBA benefit programs have become. But what I really came away with after reading this is how impressive and articulate Caron Butler is as a player rep. this is just another example in a long line of examples chronicled over the tears on the YARD about Caron. WOW what a leader and an incredible ambassador of UCONN he is. Bravo to Caron

 

[REB1094]

Tyrese got his first NBA dunk tonight in garbage time of a win vs the Detroit Pistons. Made a nice cut and Frank Kaminsky found him with the pass. Will post the clip if I find it.

Play starts at around 7:14 here:

 

[Purple Stein]

Would love to see him get 30 appearances this year, maybe a rogue start in late March, early April. Regardless, he's a kid who's gonna seize the opportunities before him.

 

[elmcityboy]

first nba three. pretty nice pump-fake, one dribble, step-back move to get there, too.

 

[Travelman6]

First basket
Hopefully the first of many

First three
Awesome!

3-4 shooting to start his career. (I wonder what the record is for most consecutive shots to start a career is and best % for the first 10 shots of a career is).

Cheering for him.

 

[awfuldan]

Atlanta is really a great place for Tyrese to have been drafted. They have a reputation for developing young talent (Young, Collins, Hunter, Reddish, Huerter, etc) plus they have enough blow-out wins that he gets some gametime. So much better than Charlotte, which has a reputation for squandering talent and plays a lot of close games that they try and fail to win. Charlotte is kind of the worst case scenario for a young player... at least if you go to a terrible team that is in the tank you get to actually play.

 

[huskiemaniac]

Is he still wearing the tag on the outside of his arm sleeve?

That’d probably be a fine in the NBA…