re: While most of you are taking today off I wish we had more driven people like him

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Getting paid $23,000,000 to play a game. Not so sure I'd call that working in the typical sense of the word.

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SO you don't think he has to work? He spends hours shooting jumpers, working out, watching film, forgoing regular stuff to play this "game". The word game is a false flag to throw us off what he really does. He's an employee for a $3bil company that even after paying him $25m a year makes $200m in profit.

GOAT

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SO you don't think he has to work? He spends hours shooting jumpers, working out, watching film, forgoing regular stuff to play this "game".

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Of course it is work, but it is fun work. I would much rather shoot jumpers, work out and watch game film all day than sit at my desk making cold calls.

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Getting paid $23,000,000 to play a game. Not so sure I'd call that working in the typical sense of the word.

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Yea because he just shows up for the game and plays. He has to practice, workout, study film. Being a high profile players im sure he has to do alot of work for the companies that endorse him and make appearances in L.A. Sounds time consuming, just like work, eh?

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Of course it is work, but it is fun work. I would much rather shoot jumpers, work out and watch game film all day than sit at my desk making cold calls.

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That's debatable.

If you are already guaranteed a contract worth millions to play by doing the bare minimum, what is to motivate you to shoot 1000 jump shots after practice, or run 5 miles at 4 am, or watch game film at 10 pm?

It is difficult to spend 12 hours/day 7 days a week for 6-7 months on end in an athletic facility training. There is not much that is easy about it, actually.

The problem with your assessment is, most times when that is made, people are equating what someone like Kobe Bryant does as his job with their experience with a sport, ie high school. It is much, much more than that. It becomes work very, very quickly.

I admire his work ethic, but that sounds pretty miserable.

what a tool

the ones who really work that hard all the time don't have time or care to tell everyone how hard they are working...they also don't have time to rape folks