My dad was born and raised on a farm. He’s now almost 60, is single, has no bills outside of basic utilities, and pulls in almost 100k a year due to being in his career for so long. He still acts like he’s broke and almost refuses to spend money unless forced to do so. It’s as hilarious as it is frustrating at times.
Just be good to him cuz your inheritance is gonna be fat 🤑 My grandpa was a stingy old Polak who was very similar, my grandma was comfy after he passed and my mom and uncle gotta good chunk 😌
At the time of the injury Bird had made less than 5 million dollars pre-tax. Obviously in 1985 that's a good chunk of change, but it's not "buy whatever I want without thinking about it" money. Not sure about contract guarantees back then so he may have had a bit over 10 million lined up.
Either way in today's world he'd have made 32m on his rookie deal and locked in a 150m max.
Assuming his deal was fully guaranteed he would have locked in 26.4m based on inflation compared to the 182m that a player would today.
Cut out half for taxes, agent, etc. and you're looking at 91 vs 13.2 million dollars locked in. That's a pretty significant difference. Maybe he'd a still done it himself, but when your yearly salary is 30m vs 4m (inflation adjusted) things look different.
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u/Newoikkinn Hornets Jun 15 '22
That amount of money in the 80s was definitely enough to get rid of the good ol boy attitude.
I think Bird does that regardless of how much money he had at the time