What does $109,756.10 buy you?
Andris Biedrins’ per game salary: $109,756.10
For Joe Lacob, $109,756.10 bought him 4 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 0 steals, and 0 blocks in 16 minutes of action.
With that money, Lacob could’ve bought 21,951 Jeremy Lin autographed cards two weeks ago. Today, at their current going rate ($200), he could’ve resold them for $4.4M.
(I know the price wouldn’t be the same if there were 22k cards up on eBay, but it’s funny to think about given Grant’s post.)
It’s pretty saddening to think that when I was in Chicago, I started a collection of scrub Warriors autos (Marcus Williams, Patrick O’Bryant, Todd Fuller, etc) but passed on a $5 Jeremy Lin card. I even decided that buying a second Andrew DeClercq card instead of the Jeremy Lin card was money better spent.
