Adidas set to throw Wiggins $180mil shoe contract

[DuMa]

Wiggins. drop out of school already bro. get yo ass to the d-league.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24087978/report-adidas-ready-to-throw-180-million-at-andrew-wiggins

if i knew i had a 180 million waiting for me at the end of college, why would i ever want to work hard in college?

[fpliii]

Crazy physical tools, though I'm more of a fan of Parker/Randle (maybe since getting one in the draft is more realistic, lol).

[OJ SIMPSON 2.0]

And it's reported by Bleacher Report :oldlol:

[KyleKong]

if i knew i had a 180 million waiting for me at the end of college, why would i ever want to work hard in college?


You actually think people like Wiggins is going to attend classes?

[scm5]

Wiggins. drop out of school already bro. get yo ass to the d-league.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24087978/report-adidas-ready-to-throw-180-million-at-andrew-wiggins

if i knew i had a 180 million waiting for me at the end of college, why would i ever want to work hard in college?

Because maybe if he exceeds expectations, he'll get a $200m+ contract.

[DuMa]

You actually think people like Wiggins is going to attend classes?

like im talking about classes :lol
im talking about playing hard and risking injury during practice and games while @ school.

[HomieWeMajor]

But will he get injured doe ?

[DropStep]

A guy like Wiggin's doesnt need to go to class except maybe once or twice.

But its pretty crazy to think, an athlete of his level in college is basically guaranteed millions of dollars as long as he doesnt blow out his knee or lose all of his skills. I can imagine some of these athletes parents being extremely overprotective. Basically a living lottery ticket.

[kNicKz]

Some kids want to enjoy the experience of going to college....see Marcus Smart. At the end of the day it isn't my life and I'm not going to judge him.

[kNicKz]

if i knew i had a 180 million waiting for me at the end of college, why would i ever want to work hard in college?

Because maybe he's bought into the idea of winning a championship with his college team who he has bonded with and it's a dream of his?

[HylianNightmare]

goddamn, that's a stupid amount of money

[CelticBaller]

give me that type of money and I'll leave college in a heartbeat

[Meticode]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

[TheReal Kendall]

Is this legal?

Or

Is it legal because he can't get it until he's out of college?

[kNicKz]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.



Would you rather have Adidas pay him minimum wage and pocket all of the money that he generates by working his ass off? If his play generates that much money then he deserves it.

[chips93]

Because maybe he's bought into the idea of winning a championship with his college team who he has bonded with and it's a dream of his?

wiggins was asked if he thought he could have a similar impact to other star freshman like kevin durant, and he responded by asking what had durant done in college. even the most casual of college basketball fans would be very aware o what kd did at texas.

maybe im reading too much into that, but i dont think he really cares about college, its just a means to an end(the nba).

[TheReal Kendall]

Would you rather have Adidas pay him minimum wage and pocket all of the money that he generates by working his ass off? If his play generates that much money then he deserves it.

That's pocket change what they're paying him.

If he comes close to his hype they gonna make 4x what they're paying him

[Meticode]

Would you rather have Adidas pay him minimum wage and pocket all of the money that he generates by working his ass off? If his play generates that much money then he deserves it.
No. I'd rather people get paid what they deserve to get paid regarding their positive/negative impact on society as a whole.

I understand that players effect a lot of things. People getting jobs, arenas selling out, etc. But he hasn't proven anything yet in professional basketball and they want to give him $180 million?

You said "work his ass off" the funny thing he hasn't worked for anything officially. He's not working until he's drafted and playing on a team. Actually proving himself.

[branslowski]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

:oldlol: STFU

Wiggins has earned his dew. He deserves it. I dislike all of you whiny type ppl who say "Ohh, all that money for a blah blah, wen they could of gave it to the blahs, blahs, and the blah blahs". Bunch of butthurt high horse mark ass tricks. Let me ask you this? Do you take YOUR earned money and send it to soldiers? Do you open up the "Meticode Foundation" for school teachers in Ohio? I'm willin to bet my left nut you don't, so again, STFU.

[TheReal Kendall]

wiggins was asked if he thought he could have a similar impact to other star freshman like kevin durant, and he responded by asking what had durant done in college. even the most casual of college basketball fans would be very aware o what kd did at texas.

maybe im reading too much into that, but i dont think he really cares about college, its just a means to an end(the nba).

He's from Canada right? That might have something to do with his answer.

But I agree he doesn't care about college. A lot of these kids don't.

Would you care if you knew you had 180 mill waiting on you or that you just had to do a year to make mills?

I know I wouldn't care.

Most people go to college for a career to make good money but dude already a millionaire.....

[The_Yearning]

Would you rather have Adidas pay him minimum wage and pocket all of the money that he generates by working his ass off? If his play generates that much money then he deserves it.

But it doesn't.

[I<3NBA]

so he's an injury waiting to happen?

[secund2nun]

If I was Wiggins I would say F college. I'd sign that contract right away. Who needs to be a slave to a company when your entire family can be set for generations with that.

[ralph_i_el]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

That's because anybody can be a soldier teacher or firefighter. If anybody can do it why should be you paid so much? If you started paying teachers 100,000 a year every dumbass in the country would be trying to teach 2nd grade.

Supply and demand of labor. If you want athletes to get paid less stop watching sports

[secund2nun]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

You won't convince many people in America. Americans worship the super rich and their unnatural gluttony and greed while bending over and getting Fed in the a$$ by them in nearly every aspect of their lives. The system is completely manmade and unnatural and hurts them, but they will never understand and will always mistake it for "freedom."

[TheReal Kendall]

That's because anybody can be a soldier teacher or firefighter. If anybody can do it why should be you paid so much? If you started paying teachers 100,000 a year every dumbass in the country would be trying to teach 2nd grade.

Supply and demand of labor. If you want athletes to get paid less stop watching sports

This!

[JimmyMcAdocious]

For comparison, Durant got $60 mil from Nike right out of college. And that's by far more than Griffin and Wall combined. I can't find Rose's. Wiggins probably getting offered more than all 3 of them together, unless Rose got 120+.

Oh yeah, why in the hell would you go to college if you can get that much cash RIGHT NOW? Insane.

[Deleterious]

Would you rather have Adidas pay him minimum wage and pocket all of the money that he generates by working his ass off? If his play generates that much money then he deserves it.


lol just what I thought of. People have the misconception that if a player gets less somehow the money ends up with the poor.

[Meticode]

:oldlol: STFU

Wiggins has earned his dew. He deserves it. I dislike all of you whiny type ppl who say "Ohh, all that money for a blah blah, wen they could of gave it to the blahs, blahs, and the blah blahs". Bunch of butthurt high horse mark ass tricks. Let me ask you this? Do you take YOUR earned money and send it to soldiers? Do you open up the "Meticode Foundation" for school teachers in Ohio? I'm willin to bet my left nut you don't, so again, STFU.

1.) I don't live in Ohio, I live in Wisconsin.

2.) No, I don't donate my money. I donate something more than that, my time. I volunteer for the Vets in the area. I also work for the military as well right now contracted through them through Logistics Health Inc to make sure current soldiers are medically ready to be deployed if need be.

3.) I also volunteer for my daughters school to help the teachers there. Sometimes donating money as well.

They do not get paid enough for their jobs.

[alenleomessi]

from some googling it looks like only rose and mclroy get more from endorsements :eek:

[hangintheair]

In B4 Reebok offers 200M+

[ralph_i_el]

1.) I don't live in Ohio, I live in Wisconsin.

2.) No, I don't donate my money. I donate something more than that, my time. I volunteer for the Vets in the area. I also work for the military as well right now contracted through them through Logistics Health Inc to make sure current soldiers are medically ready to be deployed if need be.

3.) I also volunteer for my daughters school to help the teachers there. Sometimes donating money as well.

They do not get paid enough for their jobs.

My mom has been teaching ever since she retired from her real job, and I used to do substitute teaching 2nd grade through high school in mostly low income areas. It's a very easy job. They also have 3 months off a year where they can work another job.

[Meticode]

My mom has been teaching ever since she retired from her real job, and I used to do substitute teaching 2nd grade through high school in mostly low income areas. It's a very easy job. They also have 3 months off a year where they can work another job.
Somehow I don't believe anything you typed. All the teachers I talk to with they love their job find it difficult to incorporate their life around it because you need to take your work home with you. There's a lot of time spent away from the classroom to make sure the job is done.

[Deleterious]

Somehow I don't believe anything you typed. All the teachers I talk to with they love their job find it difficult to incorporate their life around it because you need to take your work home with you. There's a lot of time spent away from the classroom to make sure the job is done.

And that compensated by a long vacation where they get paid. How many people do you know that have more than 6 weeks of vacation a year?

[R.I.P.]

You actually think people like Wiggins is going to attend classes?

You better believe, if I had allegedly $180m waiting in 12 months barring a career-threatening injury my college career would be attending history classes in ground level classrooms, rides only and 130 pounds max weight. F*** 360 dunks. No actually I

[ralph_i_el]

Somehow I don't believe anything you typed. All the teachers I talk to with they love their job find it difficult to incorporate their life around it because you need to take your work home with you. There's a lot of time spent away from the classroom to make sure the job is done.


I didn't take anything away from the classroom because I was a sub. Never gave my mom much trouble though and she taught four different grades. Any real career has work you have to take care of on your own time. You think playing in the NBA is different?


Also gym teacher is the easiest job on the planet. Every time I got an offer to sub in gym I did. Most middle school gym teachers in my district have their breaks all at once for 2 hours. My jumper started getting sharp after a couple days of my own private gym.

[Meticode]

I didn't take anything away from the classroom because I was a sub. Never gave my mom much trouble and she taught 4 different grades. Any real career has work you have to take care of on your own time. You think playing in the NBA is different?
Of course not, you just get paid hundreds if not thousands of times more than 90% of the population.

[R.I.P.]

In B4 Reebok offers 200M+

Reebok is a subsidiary company of Adidas. :oldlol:

[Meticode]

And that compensated by a long vacation where they get paid. How many people do you know that have more than 6 weeks of vacation a year?
It's their choice to have a 9 month or 12 month period of pay. Depends on the contract.

[TheReturn]

Damn. That's just insane.

[Frozen1]

I just can't understand the market around this shoes contracts.

If they pay this ammount of money, it's because it's worth, and it's because people really buy shoes because Player X is putting his name on it.

"OMG i want to be like Lebron/kobe/durant/rose and i will buy their overpriced shoes".

To me that's a very dumb way of thinking that unfortunately great part of the society has.

If i`m buying something, i will buy it considering the cost and the benefit, not who is putting his name on it.

Some months ago i was looking for a pair of shoes on the internet, and found some kobe's that were US$180, R$ 399 in brazilian reais. I thought they looked really good, but would i put that amount of money in a shoe? No way, i gave up on it and bought a cheaper nike.

[Jameerthefear]

hopefully spk is this good and he shares the wealth with us

[G-train]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

Nike was a business started by a couple of guys and it has grown into a large business.
It didn't happen by accident, it happened because people worked hard to grow it and in turn received wages to buy food, clothes, cars, shelter, etc.
The business I think made around $25b last financial year.

If such a contract exists ($180m for Wiggins) it would be highly researched and measured by experts that have worked hard to become experts and they get paid to provide for their families.

Given the popularity of bball worldwide, given their budget and given that Wiggins seems to be the next great star player and will easily repay that money, it's pretty reasonable that he gets paid over $100m.

So you can look at it as backward and evil, or you can say people worked hard for success because other people want to wear great sports shoes and are prepared to pay 3-5 hours of their wages for 1000 hours of comfort during their leisure time, all over the world.

[FreezingTsmoove]

I hate people like Meticode

[JtotheIzzo]

wiggins was asked if he thought he could have a similar impact to other star freshman like kevin durant, and he responded by asking what had durant done in college. even the most casual of college basketball fans would be very aware o what kd did at texas.

maybe im reading too much into that, but i dont think he really cares about college, its just a means to an end(the nba).

getting bounced early in the tournament?

[iamgine]

I just can't understand the market around this shoes contracts.

If they pay this ammount of money, it's because it's worth, and it's because people really buy shoes because Player X is putting his name on it.

"OMG i want to be like Lebron/kobe/durant/rose and i will buy their overpriced shoes".

To me that's a very dumb way of thinking that unfortunately great part of the society has.

If i`m buying something, i will buy it considering the cost and the benefit, not who is putting his name on it.

Some months ago i was looking for a pair of shoes on the internet, and found some kobe's that were US$180, R$ 399 in brazilian reais. I thought they looked really good, but would i put that amount of money in a shoe? No way, i gave up on it and bought a cheaper nike.
You can also look at it like "The best in the world are paid to endorse it but it must also be an excellent product because they are using it themselves."

[Wavves]

Athletes are worth the money they receive and deserve to be paid the amount they do. Simple as that.

It's basic economics. Supply and demand. Countless athletes support and give a lot of money to charities too. If you don't like how they get paid that amount while children in Africa are dying, go to a sneaker store and convince people to stop buying the shoe and tell them to donate it instead.

[Sarcastic]

If I were him I wouldn't even get on the practice court at Kansas. I would just sit out and wait.



Reason:
http://therecoveringpolitician.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/130212233424-nerlens-noel-t1-wide.jpg

[SyRyanYang]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

Then go ahead and kill yourself you salty loser:lol

[Ass Dan]

Wiggins. drop out of school already bro. get yo ass to the d-league.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24087978/report-adidas-ready-to-throw-180-million-at-andrew-wiggins

if i knew i had a 180 million waiting for me at the end of college, why would i ever want to work hard in college?

Because yous a lazy bltch and can't comprehend what it is like to be on the cusp of greatness.

My money is on Nike swooping in and stealing him away.

[Meticode]

Then go ahead and kill yourself you salty loser:lol
That's an immature thing to say and uncalled for.

[bail]

This kid is overrated. He is nowhere the caliber of a HS Lebron.

[andremiller07]

No sane person would stay in college, go to Europe or something 180mil is just to much to pass up.

[Frozen1]

You can also look at it like "The best in the world are paid to endorse it but it must also be an excellent product because they are using it themselves."

Yeah, for the price this kind of products have to be excellent at least.

But is it worth? Can you buy a non name branded product with the same quality but with a much lower price?

[Eric Cartman]

This kid is overrated. He is nowhere the caliber of a HS Lebron.

This is the closest that we are gonna get in some time.

[Hoopz2332]

This is the closest that we are gonna get in some time.


:biggums:

[KyrieTheFuture]

Country is so backwards. All that money to pay a player to endorse a product. When you have soldiers, teachers and a whole bunch of other people out there changing lives, risking their lives that get paid a fraction of that over the course of their whole life.

F*cking so parts of society just make me sad.

It's been like this since the dawn of sports. Athletes in Greece won sponsorships all the time after winning the games.

[inclinerator]

rose got a 200m contract for sitting and eating skittles

[iamgine]

Yeah, for the price this kind of products have to be excellent at least.

But is it worth? Can you buy a non name branded product with the same quality but with a much lower price?
You sure can but many many products are inferior. You don't know which one is the same quality. Unless you're into shoes, most people don't really know.

[EnoughSaid]

If Wiggins pans out and is the number one pick and all that other shit, he's going to generate Adidas much much much more than the $180 million they're paying him. I just like to think back to when Wiggins committed to Kansas. The top 3 trending topics in the United States had something to do with him or Kansas. Everyone knows who he is. Even the not hardcore NBA fans. The draft this year is been called "Wiggins sweepstakes". When you have a guy coming out of college that's the most hyped up since LeBron effing James, you make sure he's signed with you.

I don't know why Nike isn't offering him anything.

[chairman]

If Wiggins pans out and is the number one pick and all that other shit, he's going to generate Adidas much much much more than the $180 million they're paying him. I just like to think back to when Wiggins committed to Kansas. The top 3 trending topics in the United States had something to do with him or Kansas. Everyone knows who he is. Even the not hardcore NBA fans. The draft this year is been called "Wiggins sweepstakes". When you have a guy coming out of college that's the most hyped up since LeBron effing James, you make sure he's signed with you.

I don't know why Nike isn't offering him anything.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.:biggums:

[bdreason]

Nike probably makes that in a week.

[bdreason]

And while agree some of the signature shoes are overpriced... some of them are also great performance shoes. I have the Kobe VI's, CP3 VI's, and Durant VI's... and they are all amazing performance shoes.

[DuMa]

Nike could probably get him if they wanted him badly enough. Who knows what they are thinking. They are probably set with KD and Lebron leading the Nike flagship shoes for as far as SFs go.

[gts]

Can't look for it right now but guy on the radio said a $180mil shoe deal is simply not true

[Shade8780]

Can't wait to be ballin in some Adidas Wiggins in the future.