High Stakes
P-Dub will take your $$ at 40,000 feetIf you’ve ever been around NBA players, you know they thrive on competition, and that there’s usually money involved on the outcome. Guys will put money on everything (other than basketball games … hopefully). Shooting contests are huge, but card games on team planes can be where real money can be won or lost. In yesterday’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Ira Winderman explored just how bad it can get.
Take this quote from Derek Anderson in the story:
“I’ve heard guys who have lost $30,000 on an hour plane trip,” Charlotte guard Derek Anderson, the former Heat reserve, says. “It’s amazing — $30,000 in an hour.
“You leave Chicago, you have $30,000. You arrive in Detroit, you don’t.”
The article goes on to say that gambling on the team plane worries some coaches so much, some have actually banned it in order to prevent any Tyrone Hill/Charles Oakley drama. Read the full story HERE.
Found today via True Hoop
March 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
YallAllReadyKnow says:
Charles Oakley to othets on Tyrone Hill
Bitch better have my money…
March 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
YOUNGFED says:
Cheap Ass Anderson. Play hard or go home wuss. Get ya money up.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
E$ says:
I’ve heard about this when Anderson was in Houston…..nothing new
March 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
nick says:
when ya making paul pierce money of 16 mil per yr, losing 30 g’s aint nothing, make that back and more the next game on the hardcourt.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:23 am
drodrone says:
shit i blow 30 g’s on coke and women every third sunday of the month
March 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
KobeBUCKETS 08 says:
BITCH MADE ASS NIGGAs YO. GET MONEY BRAAAAH. HOLLA.