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OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
You guys need to chill out and respect DD. Buncha miscreants and reprobates up in here.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
For GM:
BELLEVILLE, Ill. • It hurt, watching this.
Yet I wish more were here to see it.
If only attendance could have been mandatory for every talented kid who will ever make a dime playing sports. What a lesson this could be for those gifted enough to enter a profession where the money comes so fast it seems like it will never stop, then disappears more rapidly than it arrived.
The assignment would be simple. Show up at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds on Wednesday night. Then put yourself in Darius Miles’ size-18 shoes.
Watch complete strangers try on your hats. See them bid on your high-powered guns while others wonder aloud why a basketball player would need such firepower. Hear them question the authenticity of the autographed jerseys and sneakers given to you by your friends. Listen to them laugh at your expense.
“I could ski in most of these shoes.”
“Why would someone need so many movies?”
“That’s from Darius Miles? Give it here. He owes me money.”
And to think some here hoped Miles would make an appearance.
Miles, 35, is hard to track down these days. Attempts to contact him turn into dead ends. If he was to make a public appearance, this would not be the place, not with his personal belongings spread across an expo center in flea-market fashion.
“If you see a yellow tag with the number one on it, those came from the Darius Miles bankruptcy case,” auctioneer Virgil Straeter told the crowd at 5:30 p.m.
Most of the attention centered on Miles’ sports memorabilia, specifically the autographed LeBron James jersey that went for $1,500. But that yellow No. 1 was plastered everywhere, from the four-wheeler that looked brand new, to a dining room set still wrapped in plastic, to a stunning supply of karaoke equipment, to the table stacked with 10,000-plus DVDs and video games, to the Ruger AR-556, one of four firearms that arrived in a gun safe without a combination.
“I grew up watching him,” Quentin Baker, 27, said. “He was one of my big heroes. I saw him play at East St. Louis. When he got drafted, I became a huge Clippers fan. I had a Clippers bedspread.”
Sixteen years later, he could have bid on Miles’ bed.
The Clippers made Miles the third overall draft pick in 2000. A team had never selected a high school player so early. The wiry, high-flying small forward out of East St. Louis went from McDonald’s All-American to national celebrity. He had a $9 million contract before his 19th birthday. More money was on the way.
Paired with fellow youngsters in Lamar Odom, Quentin Richardson and Corey Maggette, the Clippers produced head-turning highlights and 16 more wins in 2000-01 than the previous season’s team. Michael Jordan endorsed him. Movie directors cast him.
“They were dunking the ball all over the place,” Kelvin Stovall, 31, said of those Clippers. “Alley-oops, all that stuff. That’s what caught my eye. He was one of my top-10 favorite players. He was young, around my age. He was doing movies and stuff like that, blowing my mind.”
Miles’ fans followed him from Los Angeles, to Cleveland, to Portland, where he averaged career-highs in points (14) and minutes (32.2) during the 2005-06 season. But a devastating knee injury 40 games into that season forever altered his career.
An attempted return with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008 lasted just one season, and included 10 missed games for a violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Miles was arrested in 2009 for marijuana possession. He was arrested again in St. Louis in 2011, when he attempted to bring a loaded gun through airport security.
The young man had some problems, obviously. Money should not have been one of them. When Miles pretty much disappeared from the headlines, most presumed he was living off the $62 million he made during his playing career.
That stunning amount of money failed to outlast the memories of Miles in his prime.
The Belleville News-Democrat reported in September that Miles had filed for bankruptcy, the byproduct of unpaid child support, tax debt, a failed real estate deal and flat-out overspending. The profit from Wednesday’s auction will go to his creditors.
Stovall, who is stationed at Scott Air Force Base, was shocked to find out Miles lives in the Belleville area. He came to check out an autographed Michael Vick jersey. He left with a pang of guilt.
“People walking around, picking at his stuff, I kind of feel something about it,” he said. “It’s a little disheartening. It kind of rubs me the wrong way.”
Others weren’t so sympathetic.
“I wanted to come out to be part of history,” said Andy Smith, who walked out with a signed pair of Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki’s shoes.
“A guy made $65-plus million and went belly up. How do you do that?”
You buy your own barber chair. You own a small army of vacuums. Somewhere along the way, you decide you need a paper towel holder made out of marble.
An estimated 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement, Sports Illustrated reported in 2009. That same report noted that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress by the time they have been retired for two years. Leagues attempt to educate rookies about managing wealth. Teenagers don’t always listen.
When Miles’ barber chair sold for $2, I wondered what he paid for it. It was late, and the crowd had thinned after the jerseys and shoes were gone. Some of the items weren’t receiving any bids.
“It’s just money!” the auctioneer encouraged.
Until it runs out.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. • It hurt, watching this.
Yet I wish more were here to see it.
If only attendance could have been mandatory for every talented kid who will ever make a dime playing sports. What a lesson this could be for those gifted enough to enter a profession where the money comes so fast it seems like it will never stop, then disappears more rapidly than it arrived.
The assignment would be simple. Show up at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds on Wednesday night. Then put yourself in Darius Miles’ size-18 shoes.
Watch complete strangers try on your hats. See them bid on your high-powered guns while others wonder aloud why a basketball player would need such firepower. Hear them question the authenticity of the autographed jerseys and sneakers given to you by your friends. Listen to them laugh at your expense.
“I could ski in most of these shoes.”
“Why would someone need so many movies?”
“That’s from Darius Miles? Give it here. He owes me money.”
And to think some here hoped Miles would make an appearance.
Miles, 35, is hard to track down these days. Attempts to contact him turn into dead ends. If he was to make a public appearance, this would not be the place, not with his personal belongings spread across an expo center in flea-market fashion.
“If you see a yellow tag with the number one on it, those came from the Darius Miles bankruptcy case,” auctioneer Virgil Straeter told the crowd at 5:30 p.m.
Most of the attention centered on Miles’ sports memorabilia, specifically the autographed LeBron James jersey that went for $1,500. But that yellow No. 1 was plastered everywhere, from the four-wheeler that looked brand new, to a dining room set still wrapped in plastic, to a stunning supply of karaoke equipment, to the table stacked with 10,000-plus DVDs and video games, to the Ruger AR-556, one of four firearms that arrived in a gun safe without a combination.
“I grew up watching him,” Quentin Baker, 27, said. “He was one of my big heroes. I saw him play at East St. Louis. When he got drafted, I became a huge Clippers fan. I had a Clippers bedspread.”
Sixteen years later, he could have bid on Miles’ bed.
The Clippers made Miles the third overall draft pick in 2000. A team had never selected a high school player so early. The wiry, high-flying small forward out of East St. Louis went from McDonald’s All-American to national celebrity. He had a $9 million contract before his 19th birthday. More money was on the way.
Paired with fellow youngsters in Lamar Odom, Quentin Richardson and Corey Maggette, the Clippers produced head-turning highlights and 16 more wins in 2000-01 than the previous season’s team. Michael Jordan endorsed him. Movie directors cast him.
“They were dunking the ball all over the place,” Kelvin Stovall, 31, said of those Clippers. “Alley-oops, all that stuff. That’s what caught my eye. He was one of my top-10 favorite players. He was young, around my age. He was doing movies and stuff like that, blowing my mind.”
Miles’ fans followed him from Los Angeles, to Cleveland, to Portland, where he averaged career-highs in points (14) and minutes (32.2) during the 2005-06 season. But a devastating knee injury 40 games into that season forever altered his career.
An attempted return with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008 lasted just one season, and included 10 missed games for a violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Miles was arrested in 2009 for marijuana possession. He was arrested again in St. Louis in 2011, when he attempted to bring a loaded gun through airport security.
The young man had some problems, obviously. Money should not have been one of them. When Miles pretty much disappeared from the headlines, most presumed he was living off the $62 million he made during his playing career.
That stunning amount of money failed to outlast the memories of Miles in his prime.
The Belleville News-Democrat reported in September that Miles had filed for bankruptcy, the byproduct of unpaid child support, tax debt, a failed real estate deal and flat-out overspending. The profit from Wednesday’s auction will go to his creditors.
Stovall, who is stationed at Scott Air Force Base, was shocked to find out Miles lives in the Belleville area. He came to check out an autographed Michael Vick jersey. He left with a pang of guilt.
“People walking around, picking at his stuff, I kind of feel something about it,” he said. “It’s a little disheartening. It kind of rubs me the wrong way.”
Others weren’t so sympathetic.
“I wanted to come out to be part of history,” said Andy Smith, who walked out with a signed pair of Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki’s shoes.
“A guy made $65-plus million and went belly up. How do you do that?”
You buy your own barber chair. You own a small army of vacuums. Somewhere along the way, you decide you need a paper towel holder made out of marble.
An estimated 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement, Sports Illustrated reported in 2009. That same report noted that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress by the time they have been retired for two years. Leagues attempt to educate rookies about managing wealth. Teenagers don’t always listen.
When Miles’ barber chair sold for $2, I wondered what he paid for it. It was late, and the crowd had thinned after the jerseys and shoes were gone. Some of the items weren’t receiving any bids.
“It’s just money!” the auctioneer encouraged.
Until it runs out.
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DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
wut
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
Totally disappointed that this wasn't about Jay Cutler. You blew it.OrtonToOlsen said:
mr. furley
Footballguy
i thought about that today. some of the #### he has sent to me lately has had me on the brink of doing it. i've already told the guy... no more.. ever. but, creepy guy's gonna creep.shuke said:
mr. furley
Footballguy
hey, i lived in Belleville once upon a time
mr. furley
Footballguy
it's 2016, why haven't we improved wig technology yet?
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
That industry has been spending all of it's R&D dollars on merkins. Just go get yourself a #### wig instead.
mr. furley
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Osaurus
Footballguy
kevzilla
Footballguy
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
how did we make it through another MLB season without a @bigbottom hit titled "Ain't No Future In Your Bunting"?
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Im only about 10 minutes into it, but I sense that Batman vs Superman is going to be all kinds of awful
OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
I love that they had yet another origin reboot for batman. Nothing says popcorn flick like watching a kid cry because his loving parents were murdered in frontbof him.
I believe it was ONYX, in their hot song slam, who said buhbuhbuhwait it gets worse.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
Right about npw you're wondering wait is that wonder woman? what the #### is she doing in this movie
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
I like to picture the whole thing playing out. Marv walks into the hottest wig spot in town.
"My good sir, I'll take your illest rug. No, no....I have the bread. Bread is no object here. The illest rug is what matters, nothing else....."
bostonfred
Footballguy
There's no way batman can beat superman. unless he has some kind of kryptonite or something.
mr. furley
Footballguy
like something from a KMD album
"i would like to see some gold rings..... some earrings for my wife"
bentley
Footballguy
bentley
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
I don't know why "he doesn't have enough bread to get an ill rug" is one of the funniest things I've ever read, but it is.
ETA: He does have a damn squirrel on his lid, too.
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the rover
Footballguy
My daughter will be gone visiting family Dec. 23-Jan 3. Originally, I planned on a ski trip to fill that time, but it fell through. So then I was looking at being solo for xmas, and spending NYE with 22 year old. She checks into rehab, so I'm looking at plan C. Go to cocktail party last night with French whore, since 22 year old is homering in California. Now we are doing to Seahawks on Christmas Eve. Ex future ex mrs fish calls me today because her separated but still married boyfriend announced that he will not be signing his divorce papers because he wants to reconcile. We're now going to NYE party together. Costa Rica chick invited me to a party on the 23rd. My date tonight stood me up, but swears she'll make it up to me tomorrow. I'm getting hammered for free at my favorite bar, and one of the waitresses just asked if I wanted a ride home and to hang out and watch a movie or something.
Holidays make people crazy.
mr roboto
Footballguy
strykerpks
Footballguy
Damn. TPW ninja
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
saw that on the face books thops my friendproninja said:
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
That sucks. Prayers for you my friend.proninja said:
Any chance they'll try to avoid any future problems by just going ahead and doing a transplant?
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Wow PN - good luck.
tommyboy
Footballguy
cosjobs
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
whoa. Best wishes man.proninja said:
sports_fan
Footballguy
I can't remember the last time I had a good opportunity to wear suspenders
