So sad

[NPT]

I'm sure it would have bankrupted the NBA to send him that little pension

Another ABA player dies waiting on pension from NBA. He left a chilling photo behind

Sam Smith, of Indianapolis, won a title in the ABA. He died last month. Weeks before his death, he posed in a photo, a message to the NBA.

www.indystar.com

 

[stollcpa]

I'm sure it would have bankrupted the NBA to send him that little pension

Another ABA player dies waiting on pension from NBA. He left a chilling photo behind

Sam Smith, of Indianapolis, won a title in the ABA. He died last month. Weeks before his death, he posed in a photo, a message to the NBA.

www.indystar.com

Very sad. I played in the Phil Harris golf fundraising tournament a couple years with Hank Bauer. .277 career average and I forget how many World Series Championships with the Yankees. His MLB pension was paltry. He was living on that small pension, social security and whatever small stipends he could pick up doing celebrity events. Made me sick to think the millions .225 hitters with no World Series Championships are getting now. Seemed like there should be a way with all the money in baseball now to take better care of the old guys that made the league.

He loved Angel Food Cakes from the restaurant my dad and I had at the time in Linton. He called them sponge cakes. I shipped him cakes about once a month for a few years. I loved listening to his baseball stories.

 

[larsIU]

$35 million? Really?

Both Lebron and Jordan are billionaires.

NBAPA should take care of this immediately.

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Very sad. I played in the Phil Harris golf fundraising tournament a couple years with Hank Bauer. .277 career average and I forget how many World Series Championships with the Yankees. His MLB pension was paltry. He was living on that small pension, social security and whatever small stipends he could pick up doing celebrity events. Made me sick to think the millions .225 hitters with no World Series Championships are getting now. Seemed like there should be a way with all the money in baseball now to take better care of the old guys that made the league.

He loved Angel Food Cakes from the restaurant my dad and I had at the time in Linton. He called them sponge cakes. I shipped him cakes about once a month for a few years. I loved listening to his baseball stories.

The problems are just beginning. With NIL money, hundreds of teenagers will think they are hot stuff, forgo college, wash out in the pros, will shoot or smoke away their money and will be broken human beings by age 30.

 

[UncleMark]

The problems are just beginning. With NIL money, hundreds of teenagers will think they are hot stuff, forgo college, wash out in the pros, will shoot or smoke away their money and will be broken human beings by age 30.

Yes, there will be stories like that, just like lottery winners. Some people just suck with money, no matter how much or how little they have.

 

[larsIU]

Some people just suck with money, no matter how much or how little they have.

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

The problems are just beginning. With NIL money, hundreds of teenagers will think they are hot stuff, forgo college, wash out in the pros, will shoot or smoke away their money and will be broken human beings by age 30.

My hypothesis is that eventually the highest earners are likely to be women. And it won't be for athletic reasons.

 

[larsIU]

My hypothesis is that eventually the highest earners are likely to be women. And it won't be for athletic reasons.

 

[UncleMark]

My hypothesis is that eventually the highest earners are likely to be women. And it won't be for athletic reasons.

The biggest women NIL agreements now are with the hottest women.

 

[mcmurtry66]

The biggest women NIL agreements now are with the hottest women.

Shocker

 

[larsIU]

The biggest women NIL agreements now are with the hottest women.

I feel empowered.

 

[CO. Hoosier]

. Some people just suck with money, no matter how much or how little they have.

Agreed. Why are so many of them in congress?

 

[NPT]

If the shoe fits......

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

The biggest women NIL agreements now are with the hottest women.

 

[outside shooter]

You can support the retired ABA players in need at https://droppingdimes.org/

One way (what I did) is to purchase a sweet replica ABA ball with proceeds going to dropping dimes. $79.99 for the ball. It's really a beauty:

The ball has the signature of "Slick Pinkham" who was the made-up player, allegedly from DePauw University, that was actually drafted in the last round by the Pacers coach Bob Leonard in the 1971 ABA draft. Bob's nickname was "Slick" and the founder of the Pacers was Dick Tinkham, so the name was a mash-up. Slick probably had a little too much to drink that night.

You can get autographed versions for more money

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[Joe_Hoopsier]

And it won't be for athletic reasons.

Well, they do have more stamina. That's kinda athletic.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

The biggest women NIL agreements now are with the hottest women.

YGTBSM!

 

[mrhighlife]

Agreed. Why are so many of them in congress?

That's different. That's not their money so they don't give a shit.

 

[Sope Creek]

My buddy - who played for Jeffersonville and said that the '64 Columbus team was slow - said he remembers that game. He said Walt Frazier was suspended at the end of the season by SIU because he - allegedly - had a girl in his dorm. (Different world that.) He also said that he recalls that of the 5 first team tournament players, 3 were from SIU (not including Frazier), Smith and the 5th was some guy from North Dakota named Phil Jackson.

 

[Sope Creek]

"that game" = 1966 DII championship game between Kentucky Weslyan and Southern Illinois. There was powerhouse basketball around Evansville/Owensboro in those days.

 

[larsIU]

If the shoe fits......

I wearz it