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Cavs Millionaires Still Buy Lottery Tickets

Mar 12, 2007 – 6:06 PM
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Yesterday, I kidded that all NBA players are "degenerate gamblers." I mean, what else could explain their affinity for Milwaukee's Indian casino. Other than some hard truths about the lack of glamor in everyday NBA life.

Looks like the joke's on me, in that there is no joke. From The Chicago Tribune:
And you thought getting an NBA contract was equal to winning the lottery. Cavs guards Larry Hughes and Ira Newble, Hughes with a $60 million contract and Newble, who rarely plays, with $15 million, said they spent hundreds of dollars playing the Mega Millions lottery last week.
I know you have to spend money to make money, which means you have to make money to make money. And certainly, pro ballers fit that bill. But the lottery? Maybe as some kind of exercise in nostalgia, I guess, but that justifies like two or three tickets. Hundreds of dollars? Hughes and Newble would be better off taking that to Milwaukee, where at least there's some obvious difference between desperation and recreation. These two young men need to seek counseling immediately, before far worse things happen to their very promising, money-laden futures.
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