The celebrity basketball player behind is not even assuredly an NBA-quality player.
The company behind it has declared bankruptcy.
Tthe player will reportedly make north of $20 million this season. He has been lauded as a hero for playing a role in introducing cheap basketball shoes. But now he is suing the bankrupt company for a couple more million.
That'll probably be the final analysis -- how dare he, when he has so much?
(And here's where this post about a little footnote in the apparel industry is going to take a bizarre turn.)
I'll tell you what, I don't like that line of thinking. I mean, if I have a friend who makes $75,000 and I take $750 from her, is she supposed to laugh it off if I don't return the money?
Don't give me that $20 million is no $75k. Here's the thing: Both salaries are well past the point of fulfilling basic human needs.
Food, shelter, education, health insurance ... If you're tough-minded, you can attend to all that for much less than $75k. I know this. And I know that people in most of the world dream of making a tenth of that.
But once you get past the hard needs of life, it's all relative. The extra money is all about retirement, a bigger house, college, cars, vacations ... important stuff! But not the brass tacks of survival.
My point is, if people who make $75,000 are allowed to get upset about getting ripped off, then so are multimillionaires. Neither may feel like it, but they are both rich.
Now, did Marbury actually get ripped off? I'll leave that to the judge.
