Maybe it’s just to troll Texas:
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As someone who went to college at the same time as Paul Jesperson, I don’t really appreciate this wording here.
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He was a Bennett guy and I was there 4 coaches before Bennett.
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Did he play at the same time as Jess Person?
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Anyone following this? Kansas has had two games against old foe Buddy Hield, and he got 'em in this one, with 19 points, including 5-11 from 3.
Trying to imagine something similar with the Wahoos - maybe playing Canada and RJ Barrett?
Canada’s #1 squad is loaded. They’d beat most NBA teams. RJ would be a rotation bench guy probably. SGA, Jamal Murray, Andrew Wiggins, Andrew Nembhard, Ben Mathurin, Shaedon Sharpe, Lu Dort, bunch of other guys.
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Oh, for sure. I was just trying to think of a parallel.
Also, apparently Ben Gordon played today, and Deandre Ayton warmed up.
Eric Gordon, right?
AJ Storr also on that Bahamas team; we will see him later when we play Wisconsin.
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Yes, not Uconn Ben Gordon. My brain is stuck in the past…
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When we were in france overseas trip 2012 I think one game Nene from the wizards was on one of the teams.
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Why does every former college player have a summer basketball camp? Is this a new thing or what?
And every pro has an foundation ha
Seems to be tons of demand for individual workouts and camps now for sure. But yes seems like everyone has one
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I mean you get that one, gotta get under them taxes.
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Sorta. They taxes taken out immediately I thought
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True but if you’re running a foundation can’t you just claim all your expenses as bills for the foundation and then write it off?
I don’t know what I’m talking about just riffing.
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Definitely possible but I have no clue. Also gotta pay somebody for that foundation ha.
Big money problems I guess
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Yep. So, many years ago, Warren Buffett announced he was giving some huge chunk of his fortune to charity. $40B or something, I forget. He was lionized in the press for being this amazing humanitarian and generally fantastic human being for months.
Then it gradually came out that he wasn’t giving all the money away now, it was going to happen over 20 years but for various reasons he was getting the tax write-off sooner than that. Also it turned out that he wasn’t giving the money directly to charity, he was using the money to set up a foundation.
Which would be run by his kids. Who would collect giant salaries based on the assets of the foundation (like 1% of assets each or something. So, $400M/year each). And the foundation had no restrictions on how much money it had to give away or what its guidelines were or anything.
IIRC, after factoring everything in (because they get the initial tax write-off plus they’re now a non-profit with totally different tax rules than an investment firm), assuming the kids donated like 2% of the foundation’s money to charity each year and otherwise ran it pretty cheaply, Buffett’s kids would end up with more money that way than if he had simply died and given it to them. And he got a gigantic amount of positive press out of it, too.
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That’s when you hire someone like me. I’m great at spending other peoples money.
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Foundations are mostly a vanity project. If you wanna help, just give your money to existing effective non profits, or better yet, the people directly.
But as a parent of young kids, I’m down with a proliferation of bball summer camps. Gotta fill that school break void.
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Carolina announces UConn and Kentucky games for this fall. Tough schedule, but I want us to play more of those games!
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