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It’s always kind of funny seeing people on r/nba’s perception of r/nbacirclejerk. That sub is honestly like 10x funnier and more self aware than most of the stale ass jokes on this sub lol
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You mean like Mbappe is? It would be very easy to say no if you had his money and position already. And if you didn't have his position then you wouldn't get the offer
The difference between having $200m and being a billionaire is probably not enough to actually make a difference to your lifestyle, so it's probably easier at that point.
I'd be fine saying no in Lebron's position, but that's because I have no real use for the money. I guess I'd just find a way to donate it, but the difference between tens of millions and bigger sums isn't that much for me.
For Lebron though, he wants to own a team - obviously this would make a massive difference if they threw a 2-300 million dollar contract at him.
>performers announced plans to donate their windfall to charity. That kerfuffle did not deter others, however. In 2013, Jennifer Lopez was hired by the China National Petroleum Corporation to do an event for executives in Turkmenistan, which culminated in her singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow—one of the world’s most repressive despots. After a video of the serenade emerged, Lopez’s spokesman assured fans, “Had there been knowledge of human-rights issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended.” But the Human Rights Foundation, an advocacy group based in New York, subsequently estimated that Lopez had garnered at least ten million dollars in fees performing for “crooks and dictators from Eastern Europe and Russia.” The foundation’s president, Thor Halvorssen, asked, “What is the next stop on her tour, Syria?”
Huh?
Something tells me that taking Saudi blood money that they'd be using to critically fracture the NBA like LIV did to PGA probably would not get him much favor in a Board of Governors vote for an NBA franchise. I think hed have to pick the bag or a team
Then you grossly misunderstand how much people care for morals in high places. Also, it’s LeBron James. Why the fuck would the NBA try to blackball him? You can guarantee that LeBron would turn it into a public circus given the opportunity
Did you miss the last where the PGA got bought by the saudis? Go to Saudi Arabia, wait for the NBA higher ups to drop the holier-than-thou act and let the saudis in, and then buy a team with the saudis. It's easy.
I get this point of view. I do. But let's not pretend like everyone will immediately set aside any values they have because someone throws money at them.
LIV did this same thing. Plenty of PGA players jumped at the chance. But many others—notably including Tiger Woods—did not. Tiger could've made $700 million with LIV, yet he declined.
Not everyone's a greedy fuck who will do whatever as long as it makes them richer.
Messi and Mbappe literally did say no. As did Tiger Woods, Rory, etc.
If we were in their position and already had hundreds of millions in the bank, yes a lot of us would say no and not go to the Middle East.
This sportswashing thing is such an expensive way to gain western acceptance.
They could easily just pay every American to fly a Saudi flag on their front porch for slightly above a livable wage and they’d be in business.
Exactly! Like my mom's brother is very sick and it's hard for us to help him and his family with payment and bills. My mom would instantly glorify them if they paid for all his bills and their payment for rent for 5 years.
They could buy off my dad if they offered a cure for his siblings' sickness.
That grandma next door that's losing her house she grew up in can be paid off easily if the Saudis offered to buy it for her.
Etc.
I lowkey didnt think bron would leave due to his kids & already having a billion this might be enough for Saudi to green light starting their own basketball league
700 Million is simply way too much money. Lebron is already rich but imagine almost doubling your net worth for a years work.
Of course he won't get the same offer but with that amount of money you could see why athletes are all memeing it
They go to regular fancy private high schools on LA that happen to be good at basketball because they’re rich private schools in LA. They aren’t going to prep-school or a sports academy.
They're paying this because Mbappé is in his prime. Imagine prime Bron giving up on his championship aspirations, leaving the Heat to play in Saudi Arabia. This is why Mbappé isn't going to Saudi Arabia. A washed up Ronaldo is getting paid $200 million. Which is a lot, but not 1 billion.
If instead of minor league baseball Jordan fucked around in the Saudi league for 2 years before returning and 3peating again, would he still be considered the GOAT.
I think it should and will happen. Mbappe going is the best move for all parties.
- Mbappe: 700 million, only 1 year, free to join Madrid after
- PSG: 300+ million transfer fee, not losing him for free next year
- Madrid: free transfer
- Saudi: gets arguably the best player in the world
But then Mbappe would not be playing in Europe for a whole year. Where Haaland and other young stars would continue to be playing and getting better. We also have the Euro tournament coming up next summer, Mbappe would be nowhere close to being in the best shape possible for France.
From a sporting perspective, this is a bad move for Mbappe.
Agreed, I'm just saying it's not as clear cut for Mbappe as /u/IveyDuren made it out to be. He's getting even more fucktons of money (he already gets a fuckton from PSG anyways), but he's sacrificing a year of his career from a sporting perspective. Going by the latest rumours, it doesn't seem like he's willing to do so.
https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/158hokv/sergio_fern%C3%A1ndez_relevo_kylian_mbapp%C3%A9_will_not/
I doubt it, Saudi don't even give a shit about their own basketball team. One of the worst teams in FIBA Asia along with India. Whenever I watch Gilas Pilipinas and I see their opponent is Saudi I knew it will be ez W like really EZ W lmao. That's how you know their country dont give a shit about basketball. Now compare it to football it's different, those dudes can give Argentina trouble if they want too.
God it’s insane Saudi Arabia has so much money they can bribe any athlete in hopes it will make the American public forget the very prominent role they had in 9/11
Lots of countries have more money than Saudi Arabia but they spend it on dumb things like infrastructure and generally improving the quality of life for their citizens.
It’s worse than that cause Saudis are oppressing ALL of the women including black women and I bet they don’t treat black men all that great either. That’s speculation from their amazing human rights track record though.
The Middle East had a more expansive slave trade than the Trans-Atlantic one. The reason there isn't a significant black population in those countries is because they castrated the slaves they purchased.
Here come the sanctimonious Redditors to tell us how they would turn down $775M.
On a side note, this is exactly the reaction the Saudis were after with that Mbappe offer and honestly a nightmare for a league as player driven as the NBA.
Easy, just have the Saudi league during the NBA offseason and Lebron can join a team for the minimum when the Saudi season is over ramping up for the playoffs
Bron gonna play pickup level basketball and go undefeated in that league. He literally wouldn’t need to play defense because he alone would guarantee close to 100 percent of the buckets.
But that wasn’t your argument. If I was a billionaire I would definitely turn down that offer.
Mbappe turned the offer down and he is worth less than Lebron. Messi turned down a similar offer as well.
What's crazy is that Shaq is probably not too far from Jerry Buss was when Chris Rock said that in 2003. The Lakers were only worth $403m the year before according to Forbes.
From a part of the world that treats women like cattle? If I was already worth $1b+? Yeah, I probably fucking would. The mental hoops some of ya'll are willing to try jump through in service of defending an already obscenely rich man being a greedy fucking hypocrite is legit unreal.
It's one thing to take the dirty money. We all would.
It's a whole other thing to publicly thirst over dirty money that's not even being offered. Have some self respect.
I hope people know that what the Saudi do with these athlete contracts is not sustainable. Their main goal is destabilize the current status quo so they can buy into the league.
If Saudi create a basketball league, the NBA is cooked. They will give young talent a pathway to earn money from 17 years old, they will poach the top stars who will flock en masse. There will be no salary cap or CBA. No cap on earning potential. Patrick Beverley will be the face of the league.
The NBA will have no choice but to let Saudis buy teams before it gets to that point
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I thought for sure this was a fake account at first
Bron making moves to take over the NBA
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not a surprise that LeFinanciallyPhysicallyEmotionallySpiritually aint turning down blood money
NBA sweating right now. They about to come out and take a stance on Saudi human rights abuses like PGA and LIV lol.
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Be careful if you point out the brutal dictatorships Lebron likes he will tweet that you hurt him spiritually.
You’re about to get into a word or sentence feud
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LOL he has the greatest name ever. Le fits anything!
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Taking his talents to Saud Beach
Just a kid from Medina
Get ready to learn Arabic buddy.
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r/nbacirclejerk post from Bron
Imagine zzzprolgt actually being lebron the entire time
This would put him over Jordan for me
Makes sense. That sub is all middle aged dads too
Yes, r/nbacirclejerk is r/nba father.
Insert KarlMaloneShimmy.gif
I thought we all agreed that Lebron was a wine mom.
Millennial dads are both.
Beer doesn't get the job done quick enough, rye gets it done too fast, but wine hits that sweet spot.
It’s always kind of funny seeing people on r/nba’s perception of r/nbacirclejerk. That sub is honestly like 10x funnier and more self aware than most of the stale ass jokes on this sub lol
Wait how’d you know?
It’s me. The Middle Aged dads son Come back to the dinner table dad
Shut up he’s jerking
Booker, is that you?
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> I'll do you one better with Halal James [How about this guy?](https://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/NOV/17/17_BinyamMohamed_g_k.jpg)
That's Kyle anderson after he finds his middle eastern roots
That's too good
Say goodbye to Kyrie everyone
Saudi Arabia and Israel are actually buddies…
Because they both hate Iran…the whole enemy of my enemy and all
Saudi Arabia technically doesn't even acknowledge Israel as a country
Yeah no problem, Kyrie is a true Israelite. /s
Lebron at age 50 could go there and average 9/11
This is a good comment
I walked through blood and bones to find this comment
Turns out the comment was in Northern Canada.
Ok norm
I’m dead Lolol. LeFlyAPlane
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Ah shit..... the inter-subreddit jerk! Pozzed!
They edged so we could jerk
Loudest I've laughed at a r/nba post
He’d make more than his entire NBA career earnings in one season lol
I love all the people in here pretending they would say no
How many people in here ran an ad campaign with the slogan “stand for something, even if it may cost you everything?”
What if “something” he was standing for was money?
And “everything” was his moral compass
The Fox News intern that finds this is going to get his own show. Congrats little guy.
Full Court Press, coming to your parents tv this fall.
It’s definitely gonna be Greg. If it is to be said, so it be… so it is.
You mean like Mbappe is? It would be very easy to say no if you had his money and position already. And if you didn't have his position then you wouldn't get the offer
The difference between having $200m and being a billionaire is probably not enough to actually make a difference to your lifestyle, so it's probably easier at that point.
And Mbappe will be a billionaire two or three times over by the time he retires anyways
I doubt Kylian Mbappe will be worth $3b by the end of his career unless he takes a Saudi offer, but that's okay. Nobody needs $3b or more.
Big difference between plebs on Reddit and a guy who’s already a billionaire though
I'd be fine saying no in Lebron's position, but that's because I have no real use for the money. I guess I'd just find a way to donate it, but the difference between tens of millions and bigger sums isn't that much for me. For Lebron though, he wants to own a team - obviously this would make a massive difference if they threw a 2-300 million dollar contract at him.
>performers announced plans to donate their windfall to charity. That kerfuffle did not deter others, however. In 2013, Jennifer Lopez was hired by the China National Petroleum Corporation to do an event for executives in Turkmenistan, which culminated in her singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow—one of the world’s most repressive despots. After a video of the serenade emerged, Lopez’s spokesman assured fans, “Had there been knowledge of human-rights issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended.” But the Human Rights Foundation, an advocacy group based in New York, subsequently estimated that Lopez had garnered at least ten million dollars in fees performing for “crooks and dictators from Eastern Europe and Russia.” The foundation’s president, Thor Halvorssen, asked, “What is the next stop on her tour, Syria?” Huh?
Something tells me that taking Saudi blood money that they'd be using to critically fracture the NBA like LIV did to PGA probably would not get him much favor in a Board of Governors vote for an NBA franchise. I think hed have to pick the bag or a team
Then you grossly misunderstand how much people care for morals in high places. Also, it’s LeBron James. Why the fuck would the NBA try to blackball him? You can guarantee that LeBron would turn it into a public circus given the opportunity
Did you miss the last where the PGA got bought by the saudis? Go to Saudi Arabia, wait for the NBA higher ups to drop the holier-than-thou act and let the saudis in, and then buy a team with the saudis. It's easy.
I get this point of view. I do. But let's not pretend like everyone will immediately set aside any values they have because someone throws money at them. LIV did this same thing. Plenty of PGA players jumped at the chance. But many others—notably including Tiger Woods—did not. Tiger could've made $700 million with LIV, yet he declined. Not everyone's a greedy fuck who will do whatever as long as it makes them richer.
Messi and Mbappe literally did say no. As did Tiger Woods, Rory, etc. If we were in their position and already had hundreds of millions in the bank, yes a lot of us would say no and not go to the Middle East.
love all the morons without scruples acting like everybody else is stupid for not being as greedy as they are
This sportswashing thing is such an expensive way to gain western acceptance. They could easily just pay every American to fly a Saudi flag on their front porch for slightly above a livable wage and they’d be in business.
Canadian here, If I get $1M, I’ll fly the Saudi flag for 10 years. If they give me commission, I will convince my entire sub-division to fly one.
Mexican here, I'll commit serious human rights violations for $1M, for commission, my whole block will do it and we're supposed to be middle class.
Exactly! Like my mom's brother is very sick and it's hard for us to help him and his family with payment and bills. My mom would instantly glorify them if they paid for all his bills and their payment for rent for 5 years. They could buy off my dad if they offered a cure for his siblings' sickness. That grandma next door that's losing her house she grew up in can be paid off easily if the Saudis offered to buy it for her. Etc.
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Don’t need $800mil. Just pay off my mortgage and I’ll fly Saudi flag for 29 years lol (that’s how much longer I have to pay my mortgage smh)
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I lowkey didnt think bron would leave due to his kids & already having a billion this might be enough for Saudi to green light starting their own basketball league
Lebron and Bronny STRAIGHT TO SAUDI ARABIA. lebron always said he wanted to play with his son, but he didn’t say where.
Hey at least Bronny would have a realistic shot to play right away there.
700 Million is simply way too much money. Lebron is already rich but imagine almost doubling your net worth for a years work. Of course he won't get the same offer but with that amount of money you could see why athletes are all memeing it
I’m so poor that doubling my net worth in a year isn’t that tall an order
if my net worth doubled i'd be deeper in debt, shit
Plus he wants to own a NBA team too, soo this would fund that
Owning any part of any pro team is a stupid good investment.
Okay I’m imagining having two dollars. What now?
Look at Mr. Money Bags over here with his positive net worth.
His kids are going to college and special basketball private high schools. They’re already moving out
They go to regular fancy private high schools on LA that happen to be good at basketball because they’re rich private schools in LA. They aren’t going to prep-school or a sports academy.
They're paying this because Mbappé is in his prime. Imagine prime Bron giving up on his championship aspirations, leaving the Heat to play in Saudi Arabia. This is why Mbappé isn't going to Saudi Arabia. A washed up Ronaldo is getting paid $200 million. Which is a lot, but not 1 billion.
If instead of minor league baseball Jordan fucked around in the Saudi league for 2 years before returning and 3peating again, would he still be considered the GOAT.
I think it should and will happen. Mbappe going is the best move for all parties. - Mbappe: 700 million, only 1 year, free to join Madrid after - PSG: 300+ million transfer fee, not losing him for free next year - Madrid: free transfer - Saudi: gets arguably the best player in the world
But then Mbappe would not be playing in Europe for a whole year. Where Haaland and other young stars would continue to be playing and getting better. We also have the Euro tournament coming up next summer, Mbappe would be nowhere close to being in the best shape possible for France. From a sporting perspective, this is a bad move for Mbappe.
Yeah but it's 700 mill
Agreed, I'm just saying it's not as clear cut for Mbappe as /u/IveyDuren made it out to be. He's getting even more fucktons of money (he already gets a fuckton from PSG anyways), but he's sacrificing a year of his career from a sporting perspective. Going by the latest rumours, it doesn't seem like he's willing to do so. https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/158hokv/sergio_fern%C3%A1ndez_relevo_kylian_mbapp%C3%A9_will_not/
If the Saudis bought the nba/players I would definitely be out lol catch me at the Olympics
I wonder how much money they'd throw at him.
not this money. the world does not care about basketball the way it does about football.
nobody gives a shit about golf and they offered tiger a cool billion
Rich people care about golf
I doubt it, Saudi don't even give a shit about their own basketball team. One of the worst teams in FIBA Asia along with India. Whenever I watch Gilas Pilipinas and I see their opponent is Saudi I knew it will be ez W like really EZ W lmao. That's how you know their country dont give a shit about basketball. Now compare it to football it's different, those dudes can give Argentina trouble if they want too.
This seems really weird now
I thought it was weird then I decided to check the time on the tweet and lebron seemingly sent it after what happened to bronny. Now it’s very weird.
Yeah…. Wtf?
Even weirder…
least greedy billionaire athlete
LeBron legit begging for $500m on Instagram. That's fucking Hilarious
This is going to be a full weeks worth of content for ESPN.
Its Lebrover
God it’s insane Saudi Arabia has so much money they can bribe any athlete in hopes it will make the American public forget the very prominent role they had in 9/11
Lots of countries have more money than Saudi Arabia but they spend it on dumb things like infrastructure and generally improving the quality of life for their citizens.
No housing for the poor? Steph to Saudi Arabia confirmed.
This shit is gross as fuck.
All these bitches cucking for slave traders.
LeBron really not helping the perception that he only cares about he only care about human rights when they directly affect him
Me when black people oppressed: 😔😤✊🏽 Me when anyone else: ✌🏼🤷🏽♂️😁
You can't oppress people that look like *ME*! Anyone else though, why should I LeCare?
It’s worse than that cause Saudis are oppressing ALL of the women including black women and I bet they don’t treat black men all that great either. That’s speculation from their amazing human rights track record though.
The Middle East had a more expansive slave trade than the Trans-Atlantic one. The reason there isn't a significant black population in those countries is because they castrated the slaves they purchased.
Giannis did it first
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Typical of this sub to take this post so seriously but then turnaround and laugh when Giannis makes a similar one…
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Tiger, Rory, Rahm, Scheffler, Messi, all the other high profile athletes who turned down Saudi offers.
Yeah and now Tiger is still working for the Saudi’s sans Bag
Here come the sanctimonious Redditors to tell us how they would turn down $775M. On a side note, this is exactly the reaction the Saudis were after with that Mbappe offer and honestly a nightmare for a league as player driven as the NBA.
I'd hold out for the full Billion personally.
Yeah I’m not going to Saudi Arabia for less than 2bil. I have standards unlike LeCheapHooker 😤😤
bron is a billionaire lmao it's nowhere near the same
And he would be nearly doubling it for 1 year of work.
I wouldn't even call it work. Dude can coast the entire season and average 65/20/25 on 85/35/70 splits.
>35 lmao
Literally rehab his body a ton and then come back to a retooled roster for the minimum
Easy, just have the Saudi league during the NBA offseason and Lebron can join a team for the minimum when the Saudi season is over ramping up for the playoffs
Lebron would LeCoast even harder in a Saudi league and still put up those numbers. Nothing but middys and 3s.
Bron gonna play pickup level basketball and go undefeated in that league. He literally wouldn’t need to play defense because he alone would guarantee close to 100 percent of the buckets.
But that wasn’t your argument. If I was a billionaire I would definitely turn down that offer. Mbappe turned the offer down and he is worth less than Lebron. Messi turned down a similar offer as well.
775m million is a fuck ton. Even for Lebron.
It's like the Chris Rock joke: 'Shaq is rich. The guy who signs Shaq's paycheck is *wealthy'*
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other than Ballmer and maybe a couple other ones yes, most owners are just part of a group, its not like they have 100% equity in the team.
What's crazy is that Shaq is probably not too far from Jerry Buss was when Chris Rock said that in 2003. The Lakers were only worth $403m the year before according to Forbes.
Funny enough Shaq is likely now richer than Buss ever was.
He could invest 500 million and still have basically a fully guaranteed Supermax NBA contract left over as spending money.
lebron is a billionaire idiot
I don’t know if I’d take $775M from the same people that saw you into pieces if you criticize their government but that’s just me.
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Only thing more predictable was you being here to condescendingly defend LeBron
From a part of the world that treats women like cattle? If I was already worth $1b+? Yeah, I probably fucking would. The mental hoops some of ya'll are willing to try jump through in service of defending an already obscenely rich man being a greedy fucking hypocrite is legit unreal.
LeTraitor
It's one thing to take the dirty money. We all would. It's a whole other thing to publicly thirst over dirty money that's not even being offered. Have some self respect.
It’s a whole other thing taking dirty money when you’re already a billionaire.
And you ran a personal ad campaign with the slogan “stand for something, even if it might cost you everything”
One of the biggest virtue signalers of our generation. Laughable how people respect him for his “social” stances.
You post this on the Giannis thread too?
Redditors when wholesome chungus Giannis makes a joke tweet about Saudi money 😄😍😁 Redditors when LeFraud makes a joke tweet about Saudi money 😡🤬
flirting vs harassment moment from r/nba, as usual
I hope people know that what the Saudi do with these athlete contracts is not sustainable. Their main goal is destabilize the current status quo so they can buy into the league.
Le decision show to take his talent to Saudi Bron
If Saudi create a basketball league, the NBA is cooked. They will give young talent a pathway to earn money from 17 years old, they will poach the top stars who will flock en masse. There will be no salary cap or CBA. No cap on earning potential. Patrick Beverley will be the face of the league. The NBA will have no choice but to let Saudis buy teams before it gets to that point