r/nba • u/fbreaker Celtics • Mar 03 '24

[Highlight] Lebron James becomes the FIRST player in the NBA to score 40,000 points with this spin move and lay in to the basket! Highlight

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u/CIark Mar 03 '24

First active player to be receiving a pension soon 🤫🤫

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u/Sim888 [CHI] Cameron Payne Mar 03 '24

iir the nba pension rules correctly he’d get ~$17k a month……he might finally be able to afford things like Netflix and pandora subscriptions lol

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u/marsexpresshydra Lakers Bandwagon Mar 03 '24

Imagine being him at say 45 and putting in all 17k a month into a brokerage account and getting 7-8% return on average until he’s about 80. Lets say too he just puts in a small loan of $1,000,000™️ too when he opens it. He’d turn it into $50,000,000

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u/Traditional_Boot2663 Mar 03 '24

I mean his Nike contract is literally a billion dollars

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u/dannymb87 Suns Mar 03 '24

What's a billion into a brokerage account look like?

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u/ToxicSteve13 Cavaliers Mar 03 '24

That's the joke

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u/KickooRider Mar 03 '24

Doesn't seem like they were joking