Kblaze8855
05-22-2015, 05:05 PM
Here is the deal...
Lets say I win the powerball this summer. I have 600 million. I approach you with an offer to potentially make you a millionaire...or put you in debt to me.
You can choose any player currently in the NBA...he is 100% healthy...and playing for his current roster...also 100% healthy. The entire current NBA is at the top of their games health wise here.
I make him an offer he agrees to...I give him one million dollars in tax free cash to score 60 points in a game....and you also get a million. You dont split it. Im offering two million...he gets one...you get one. But he must drop 60....under 3 conditions....
Condition 1: He cant tell anyone what hes doing. No teammates can help him out knowingly...the coach doesnt know. If he so much as suggests to anyone that he has to score a lot tonight you both forefit. Lets assume I have a bodymic like ABC uses on him and hes given me his word not to tell anyone. You cant either. You sit in a suite in the arena and watch...only you, me, and the player knows its a bet and he wont break his word.
Condition 2:
He has to score 60 points for you to make any money. Every point hes short of 60....you have to pay me 1000 dollars....and he pays me 10,000. Meaning if he has 55 points...you owe me 5K and he owes me 50K. If you dont have the cash you sign over the rights to 20% of your pay until I get what you owe. May take years....but I get it. The most you could owe me due to condition 2 is 60 thousand dollars if hes held scoreless...he would owe me $600,000.
Condition 3:
He must shoot 50% for you to make the full million. You dont lose money for his shooting percentage...if he shoots under 50% it just reduces your take. For every percentage point under 50 he shoots you get shorted 100K of the million. So say he has 60 points on 38% shooting...you get nothing. He burned up your profits by being 12% under .500. You dont owe me anything....but you dont get anything either. If he has 64 points on 49%...you get 900,000...having lost 100K to his 1% under 50.
You get no extra for him shooting above 50% or having over 60 points. Everything rounded off. So 17/35 shooting would be 49%(48.5 rounded up...im not gonna screw you on the rounding). No Ft maximum. He can go 60/62 from the line and ill give you the money if he shot 1/2 from the field. I will not try to get over on you.
You can choose one of 5 teams to play in an otherwise meaningless game in December...no playoff race...just a normal Tuesday night game not even on national TV...
All of these teams bring back their current free agents...so its the same teams....with the same coaches. Changes may be made in reality...but we are assuming they have their current coach:
A 100% healthy Atlanta Hawks
A 100% healthy Memphis Grizzlies
A 100% healthy Golden State Warriors
A 100% healthy Chicago Bulls
A 100% healthy Indiana Pacers
Your guy is on the road in one of the above cities.
Nobody is in on it. The conditions are as I explained...no...you dont get to use TS% or eFG%. The rules are what they are.
Accept them or walk away.
And lets assume I get you to sign a contract of some sort so you cant easily back out. It will be for something you cant prove is related to illegal gambling. I'll use my million dollar lawyers to keep you tied up in court for life before ill let you walk away without paying me. I'll spend 10 million to get your 60 thousand if it comes to that. But it wont...lets keep out of the discussion on what id do to get the money. i'll get it. Leave it at that. Your word is your word...so is mine.
Worst case...you owe me 60K. Best case...I give you a million in cash tax free(lets say ill pay you whatever extra is needed to allow you to pay taxes and clear a million total).
Do you take me up on my offer? And if so....who do you pick to play for you...and what opponent do you choose?
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And for the slightly more dedicated basketball junkie who likes to go a little deeper....
Lets go the time machine route.
Pick any player/team of all time under the following condition:
They come to 2015 on the team they played on...from the season you pick.
You take 1991 Jordan...you get the 91 Bulls against the opponent of your choosing one night only alternate universe style. Same rules apply. If you take 1978 Pistol Pete...he plays modern rules with his 78 Jazz teammates...so hes got a 3 point line. 74 Kareem has the modern rules to contend with. 06 Kobe has Kwame and the gang. Same players/teams....in todays setting.
Who would you pick all time to fight for your million?
Lets say I win the powerball this summer. I have 600 million. I approach you with an offer to potentially make you a millionaire...or put you in debt to me.
You can choose any player currently in the NBA...he is 100% healthy...and playing for his current roster...also 100% healthy. The entire current NBA is at the top of their games health wise here.
I make him an offer he agrees to...I give him one million dollars in tax free cash to score 60 points in a game....and you also get a million. You dont split it. Im offering two million...he gets one...you get one. But he must drop 60....under 3 conditions....
Condition 1: He cant tell anyone what hes doing. No teammates can help him out knowingly...the coach doesnt know. If he so much as suggests to anyone that he has to score a lot tonight you both forefit. Lets assume I have a bodymic like ABC uses on him and hes given me his word not to tell anyone. You cant either. You sit in a suite in the arena and watch...only you, me, and the player knows its a bet and he wont break his word.
Condition 2:
He has to score 60 points for you to make any money. Every point hes short of 60....you have to pay me 1000 dollars....and he pays me 10,000. Meaning if he has 55 points...you owe me 5K and he owes me 50K. If you dont have the cash you sign over the rights to 20% of your pay until I get what you owe. May take years....but I get it. The most you could owe me due to condition 2 is 60 thousand dollars if hes held scoreless...he would owe me $600,000.
Condition 3:
He must shoot 50% for you to make the full million. You dont lose money for his shooting percentage...if he shoots under 50% it just reduces your take. For every percentage point under 50 he shoots you get shorted 100K of the million. So say he has 60 points on 38% shooting...you get nothing. He burned up your profits by being 12% under .500. You dont owe me anything....but you dont get anything either. If he has 64 points on 49%...you get 900,000...having lost 100K to his 1% under 50.
You get no extra for him shooting above 50% or having over 60 points. Everything rounded off. So 17/35 shooting would be 49%(48.5 rounded up...im not gonna screw you on the rounding). No Ft maximum. He can go 60/62 from the line and ill give you the money if he shot 1/2 from the field. I will not try to get over on you.
You can choose one of 5 teams to play in an otherwise meaningless game in December...no playoff race...just a normal Tuesday night game not even on national TV...
All of these teams bring back their current free agents...so its the same teams....with the same coaches. Changes may be made in reality...but we are assuming they have their current coach:
A 100% healthy Atlanta Hawks
A 100% healthy Memphis Grizzlies
A 100% healthy Golden State Warriors
A 100% healthy Chicago Bulls
A 100% healthy Indiana Pacers
Your guy is on the road in one of the above cities.
Nobody is in on it. The conditions are as I explained...no...you dont get to use TS% or eFG%. The rules are what they are.
Accept them or walk away.
And lets assume I get you to sign a contract of some sort so you cant easily back out. It will be for something you cant prove is related to illegal gambling. I'll use my million dollar lawyers to keep you tied up in court for life before ill let you walk away without paying me. I'll spend 10 million to get your 60 thousand if it comes to that. But it wont...lets keep out of the discussion on what id do to get the money. i'll get it. Leave it at that. Your word is your word...so is mine.
Worst case...you owe me 60K. Best case...I give you a million in cash tax free(lets say ill pay you whatever extra is needed to allow you to pay taxes and clear a million total).
Do you take me up on my offer? And if so....who do you pick to play for you...and what opponent do you choose?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
And for the slightly more dedicated basketball junkie who likes to go a little deeper....
Lets go the time machine route.
Pick any player/team of all time under the following condition:
They come to 2015 on the team they played on...from the season you pick.
You take 1991 Jordan...you get the 91 Bulls against the opponent of your choosing one night only alternate universe style. Same rules apply. If you take 1978 Pistol Pete...he plays modern rules with his 78 Jazz teammates...so hes got a 3 point line. 74 Kareem has the modern rules to contend with. 06 Kobe has Kwame and the gang. Same players/teams....in todays setting.
Who would you pick all time to fight for your million?