Is an NBA championship and a NBA finals MVP worth $82 million?

Asking for a friend.

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=_-_TlQvhUyI
sbnation.com/nba/2016/6/28/12050498/kevin-durant-contract-salary-money-nba-free-agent-rumors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco–Oakland–Hayward,_CA_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,_CA_Combined_Statistical_Area
celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/russell-westbrook-net-worth/
celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/kevin-durant-net-worth/
youtube.com/watch?v=zub0fmBxVCU&t
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

He'll probably make more over his lifetime this way - oh wait california taxes.

You honestly think players at that level are worried about that? His Nike shoe line might gain100M in sales over the summer. If he wins 3-4 rings in a row (which is likely at this point) he will enter the stupid GOAT talk as well.

I know you're an assblasted Oklahomo, OP, but you're being quite short-sighted. You need to think a little bigger.

Nike is going all in on him.

youtube.com/watch?v=_-_TlQvhUyI

That will get him back the 82 million. And did n't he grow up poor? Probably doesn't need the money.

It absolutely is worth it, the amount of jerseys and merchandise the warriors will sell over the next two years alone will probably pay for the 82 million dollar contract

Yes.

>based god lifts the curse
>durant immediately wins a ship

If he made peace with lil b years ago, he's still in okc with multiple ring. Fuck kd.

t. Salty okc fan

You have it backwards, leaf.

Durrant left 82M on the table in OKC to take 82M less in salary from GSW. He's asking if losing that money to improve your career legacy is worth it or if players should just make as much as they can.

Yes.

Legacy and championships are far more important than cash upfront.

>westbrickites actually think muh stats are better than winning

Meh. If he hasn't been dumb with what he's already earned, he's already set for life.

Yeah you can't feed your family with rings.

He doesn't have his own family.

He's made over $100 million just from his NBA contracts over his career, he already has more money than he will ever spend

No, because he knows he needed tons of help to get that ring. It won't feel special to him. Dude literally got carried to water.

If he won it with the OKC Thunder, he would have felt a million times better than he did last night.

So his ring is like the 2012 Lebron ring. Half of a season due to lockouts, insane string of injured players that year, and over all shitty season.

What is this meme. Is this over a long contract? Who thinks he's quitting/done after 2 years

Yeah who would want to increase their net worth 67%. You're right

The whole thing is embarrassing. It would be like if Jordan left the Bulls to join the Pistons after they blew him out.

Not really. It would be more like Gary Peyton leaving the Sonics to join the Bulls. As in a great player on a contender that didnt really have a great shot at a ring joining a team that guarenteed him a title. Like Lebron leaving Cleveland for Miami.

That would be true except he's not capable of that amount of insight.
Watch him celebrating with the Golden State fans last night, he's literally acting like he just conquered the world. He's retarded.

>If he won it with the OKC Thunder, he would have felt a million times better than he did last night.

How would you know?

>get even more money that you will never spend or accomplish a lifelong goal

>Not having residency in Oklahoma
>Not incorporating his brand there
>Not moving all his endorsement money thru there
Lrn2jew

Money is the root of all happiness. Anything else is not necessary

How did he give up $82 million again? Was Okc gonna pay him under the table that much more than his max contract or what? I hate commiefornia and hate to shit on okc but youre delusional as fucking hell if you don't think his popularity, merch sales and business opportunities wont explode moving there.

Then if he wins multiple rings instead of being just one of the best of his generation 20 years from now hes making 8-9 figures a year just putting his name on shit.

Jordan isnt making nine figures on endorsement deals to this day a year if all his stats stay the same and he wins 2 titles

sbnation.com/nba/2016/6/28/12050498/kevin-durant-contract-salary-money-nba-free-agent-rumors

The Thunder could've paid out $244.1 million
The most the Warriors can pay is $162.9 million

What's worth more when you are dead, a legacy, or 82 million?

Durant looks much happier playing now than he ever did in OKC. Who the fuck wants to live in Oklahoma? What a shit place to have to play.

He'll make most of that 82 million back from endorsements in a larger market.

OK

San Francisco: 700,000
Oklahoma City: 650,000

Yeah, SF is so much bigger

>Dude literally got carried to water.
More like he carried the warriors to water. He was by far the most dominant player on that team.

That's what David West said. You can't take your contract to the grave, but you can cement yourself as a champion.

The thread was bait from the beginning. Notice how there's about 30 replies and no one decided to reply to you? Its because they feel bad you didn't "get it".

BAY AREA you stupid fucking nigger

Yeah, but when his grandkids are wondering why they are living in poverty, I wonder what they'll think

SF>OKC don't even deny it. Also he lives in the Oakland hills which are very nice.

Ok

Bay Area: 4.1 million
Oklahoma: 3.5 million

k.

The Bay Area has a population of over 7 million people. How retarded are you?

>living in the coat tails of your grandparents
ISHYDDT

Where the fuck are you getting 4.1?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco–Oakland–Hayward,_CA_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area

I'm sorry, I mean 4.6 million. Still not all that large

What is this damn picture from, I've seen it for 20 years now and still don't know

>waiting for dad to die so you get paid

nothing more degenerate than this.

spoken like a true pleb

citizan kane

I dread the day when my dad dies...
I can't think of a sadder moment that'll happen in my lifetime

It's actually 7.6 million. But nice cherry picking stats
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

What's the difference between that and this?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,_CA_Combined_Statistical_Area

It's okay people who've never been simply don't understand that from Vacaville in the east, san Rafael in the north, and San Jose in the south it's practically all uninterrupted urban space or state/national park or reservation

your dad's a fag.

My dad dies every day

Loved how you gave population stats for the whole state of Oklahoma vs one city in the bay area. That's advance faggorty at it's finest.

...

Yeah but the Bay Area is not a large market

Why don't they have their own ESPN page like New York, LA, Chicago, or Dallas?

It depends. I had a financial advisor once tell me that you shouldn't stay or go to a new job just because they offer you more money. If the organization doesn't make you happy or meet your standards of what you are looking for in a group then in all likelihood you won't be there long enough to see yourself make the money the company offered you. You'll likely quit or get fired. Not to mention you should also consider looking at other stuff like the healthcare they are offering you as well as the taxes you might have to pay if its a new city.

The Bay Area has 8.7 million people? What?

How come I've never heard of the place?

>(((ESPN)))
>Informing your opinion
Ishyddt

I know who's behind this post

omg he's only making $26mil a year now how will he survive?

fuck you guys are stupid

An extra $82 millions don't give you peace and relaxation the way championship rings do. I bet Charles Barkely would trade 80% of his wealth for just one championship ring.

>porno chicks

Nigga he will make that in endorsements

He could have endorsements PLUS $82 million

...

There's no monetary value for an asteriked championship. Leave it to KD to be swimming in bankruptcy in 10 months when (((Commiefornia))) taxes get to him so much that he can't pay his own salary. Rent is 90k in that degenerate spichole so he better file for social security fast.

it MIGHT be.... if he can get lebron tier endorsements

lebrick will make +1B from nike alone

what if you sell the rings for food?

Except OKC isn't good enough to beat the cavs, the warriors, or even the fucking spurs, dude.

Get real.

Except...the Thunder would've gotten Horford

And that would've been a guaranteed WCF winner. Tell me where the hole is

Westbrook
Oladipo
Durant
Horford
Adams

>horford and adams on the same team

disgusting

>letting memes compose the entirety of your opinion of an administrative region in your own country
Sad!

I know you retards have never heard of the law of diminishing returns and you're too poor to be even able to comprehend it but when you're going to make upwards of 500 million dollars another 82 means absolutely nothing to you

Spoken like a true retard. You probably haven't been to either place. This is like saying New Delhi is better than NYC because it has more people.

>Tell me where the hole is
westbrook

This.

Horford is garbage, did you not see how he played with Boston? And even if he was good centers don't win rings anymore.

It's the second biggest tv market in the country

OH so it's bigger than LA, Chicago, D.C-Baltimore, Dallas and Philly now?

How is our friend Westbrook doing

studying tape of Lebron's stat padding

RICher than KD

celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/russell-westbrook-net-worth/
celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/kevin-durant-net-worth/

You like Cali more because you're a Spic and non white

Whites and Asians prefer places like OKC much more

As long as Westbrook is starting they ain't winning shit.

Pretty embarrassing commercial all around

The Warriors and KD embody the millennial spirit so much

>try something
>lose
>instead of working hard, look for an easy way to solve it
>get KD, already the second best player in the league, to leave his team and join the debatable best team in the league
>win
>We Did It Reddit!

leaves a bad taste in your mouth

I don't get the idea of working easier instead of harder

>people still reply to this guy's awful bait thread

im sure KD is having a hard time feeding his family

I promise you the bay area is more populated than the entire mid west shithole

>KD has a ring, may get multiple rings
>Westats will have willl lead in statpadding while having multiple 1st round exits

You're assuming Westbrook stays

He could go to the Lakers with PG and prevent KD from even reaching the finals

what was stopping him from doing that this year?

Nice omission of them beating the lebron's second superteam in 2015 w/o any fuckery behind steph's MVP season

>may get multiple rings
>multiple

heh

That's the problem with the salary cap. It seems fair that a team can only spend x amount of money on their players, but it's more complex than that. You take an "official" pay cut when you join a championship team but you get more money and fame from sponsors and royalties.

I woke up this morning and somehow Westbrook and OKC had become the villains of the NBA.

Is KD a millennial?

youtube.com/watch?v=zub0fmBxVCU&t

He's a 90s kid.

until humans go extinct

what then, David?

>okc didn't have a great shot at the ring

did you start watching basketball after the 2016 playoffs?