ESPN just made us hate LeBron James even more.
Meet the Salary Crunch, an EastSidePN.com feature that “breaks down statistics from his 2009-10 season and the playoffs to help translate his full salary” and pisses off all us poor fans who can’t even afford to attend an NBA preseason game.
The app allows you to enter your sorry wages and see just how long it takes King James to reach that figure, in terms of stats like games played (although games plural won’t come into play here as you’ll see by my entry), points, rebounds and assists.
Then it goes on to kick your dog, letting you know how long it would take YOU to make LeBron’s annual salary – which is reported to be $110.1 million over six years with the Miami Heat. Yeah, I feel real sorry for LeBron and that paycut he took to play in Florida, where there’s no state income tax by the way.
Well, us here in Cali have state income tax, and I won’t be making $80,000 this year. But that’s what I entered into the Salary Crunch for shame and giggles.
Here’s what it returned:
LeBron James makes $80,000 after the following…
.38 games
11.24 points
2.86 rebounds
3.2 assists
You will need to work 229.38 years in order to make LeBron James’ annual salary!
Thanks ESPN! And thank you LeBron for making us dislike you even more.
Good to know he’ll make what I’d dream of making in a year in less than a half of basketball this season.
And if you want to feel even better about yourself, ESPN allows you to compare your salary to some other beloved athletes such as former Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell, who doesn’t even have a job right now, was arrested for possession of freaking sizzurp (Triple Six Mafia would be proud), and still made that $80,000 in .19 games for the Silver and Black.
Aight, that’s enough whining. I’ve gotta run. I’ve got 229.38 years worth of dough to make up.
No worries. Just found an online gig that pays $15 per blog post. If my math’s correct, that’s only 1.22 million blog posts to reach LeBron’s 2010-11 salary (minus bonuses and endorsements of course)! One down, only 1,223,222.333 to go.
- Sent from my iPoor.
Yeah, and he took a pay CUT to get there. Nice.
Top teams in the Eastern Conference next year:
1.) Heat
2.) Celtics
3.) Magic
4.) Bulls
5.) Hawks
LeBron-less Cavs finish 38-44.
PLZ CMON GIVE ME A BREAK ALL THESE SUPERSTAR ATHLETE MAKE JUST AS MUCH WHAT’S THE POINT OF WRITTING THIS ANYWAY SUCH A hater IT’S UNBELIVABLE I DONT THINK I’LL BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH MYSELF HATING ON SOME1 LIKE THAT LIFE IS 2 SHORT 2 HARD FOR THAT KIND OF HATE THAT’S JUST MY OPINION
OH AND PAT I DISAGREE 1.heat 2.bulls derrick rose boozer noah (great young talents and they finally have some1 in the post that can score and good outside shooting there overtaking the magic but it’s pretty close. 3.magic dwight howard only getting better 4.celtics old very old but they still ahve some swag about them and toughness 5.bucks the surprise team next great talent in brandon jennings only gettin better bogut will be back you saw what hey did to the hawks without bogut