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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to speedythief again.
Good Sports Illustrated articles on Bonner & Villanueva
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/players/04/04/bonner0410/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/the_bonus/04/06/villanueva/2.htmlBonner, who averages 7.1 points a game, lives in a furnished, one-bedroom apartment in downtown Toronto and has used a portion of his earnings to move his parents from a two-bedroom condo to a three-bedroom house. But he hasn't splurged since -- not even for a little extra protein. "Just the other day I was at Subway and wanted to double the chicken in my sub," he recalls. "But it was $2 more. I was like, What a rip-off!"
The question of turning pro or continuing his allegiance to Calhoun and Connecticut, though, came to a head as a sophomore in 2004. That November, Dora Mejia was hit by a truck while standing at a bus stop. (The driver had suffered a heart attack, causing him to jump the curb.) Seeing his mother in the hospital with a shattered right elbow and an assortment of internal injuries all but punched his lottery ticket. "That's when I made it a priority that she would never have to work again," he says.
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to speedythief again.
"An NBA champion in Canada? Talk about bald ambition"
good lord
good lord
-Matt Bonner. I may have to put that on my sig."Just the other day I was at Subway and wanted to double the chicken in my sub," he recalls. "But it was $2 more. I was like, What a rip-off!"
"Skin Deep" SI.com article on Charlie V
The rest of the articleToronto Raptors rookie Charlie Villanueva sat slumped at his locker before a recent game at New Jersey, picking at his bare, bald forearm as he reflected on the taunts hurled at him in his youth. "They'd say a lot of mean things," recalled the Queens, N.Y., native. "Just stupid stuff."
The worst?
"The balding eagle," he said with a laugh. "It's funny now, but back then it was painful. I didn't understand why it was happening to me."
Re: "Skin Deep" SI.com article on Charlie V
I think it's safe to say that Charlie had the last laugh
Making millions playing out a dream, scoring 48 points in the NBA - granted it's for the Raptors, but you can't have everything
.. That was a joke
I think it's safe to say that Charlie had the last laugh
Making millions playing out a dream, scoring 48 points in the NBA - granted it's for the Raptors, but you can't have everything
.. That was a joke
SI.com - Frugal Forward - Matt Bonner
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/players/04/04/bonner0410/index.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/players/04/04/bonner0410/index.html
all good points, but what a geekYour typical NBA player gets his driver's license at 16, his first pro contract at 20 and -- if he's lucky enough to be drafted in the first round -- a different car for each day of the week. The Heat's Gary Payton, for example, has so many Bentleys he once told The Miami Herald he couldn't remember how many he owned. "I've got four or five of them," he said.
But Toronto's Matt Bonner, a frugal forward in a world of frequent excess, has put off investing in a set of wheels. The car-less Bonner, 25, prefers to get around Toronto by streetcars, the subway or his own size 16 feet. Fans and teammates call the 6-foot-10 Bonner "the Red Rocket" -- the nickname of the city's streetcar system. "I'd rather buy something that appreciates in value than something that loses half of it when you drive it off the lot," says Bonner, who majored in business at Florida.
Re: SI.com - Frugal Forward - Matt Bonner
haha, i wonder wat he does with his millions of dollars..prob invests it or sticks it in the bank to gain interest..imagine the interest in $4million!
haha, i wonder wat he does with his millions of dollars..prob invests it or sticks it in the bank to gain interest..imagine the interest in $4million!
Re: SI.com - Frugal Forward - Matt Bonner
LOL!Benis007 said:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/players/04/04/bonner0410/index.html
all good points, but what a geek
Re: SI.com - Frugal Forward - Matt Bonner
putting it into something safe like municiple bonds is a sure bet at like 4%. Thats $160,000/year, 13,333/month, $438.36/day in interest.
bling bling mofo.
they say that the 1st million is the toughest to get.
aizn said:haha, i wonder wat he does with his millions of dollars..prob invests it or sticks it in the bank to gain interest..imagine the interest in $4million!
putting it into something safe like municiple bonds is a sure bet at like 4%. Thats $160,000/year, 13,333/month, $438.36/day in interest.
bling bling mofo.
they say that the 1st million is the toughest to get.
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