Sheppard took a huge amount of money (about 10M/yr). Compare that to if he would have stayed and maybe been the 12th pick ($4M). And of course that is a significant difference over 4 years.
But I guess if you are worth 150M vs. 100M when you are finished, should that be the only consideration?
Very talented people choose lower paying professions all the time. Why do we always act like money is the only thing. He would be a top 1% easy, either way.
I look at his season (which you can't always predict), and think there is room for an interesting discussion.
Reminds me of a really good book: Excellent Sheep. the premise being Ivy League (some) educated people end of doing professions different than they really want because they feel like they have to take the big money.
ps maybe my numbers aren't perfect, and I do think some NBA rules were changing that made it more lucrative to jump last year.
But I guess if you are worth 150M vs. 100M when you are finished, should that be the only consideration?
Very talented people choose lower paying professions all the time. Why do we always act like money is the only thing. He would be a top 1% easy, either way.
I look at his season (which you can't always predict), and think there is room for an interesting discussion.
Reminds me of a really good book: Excellent Sheep. the premise being Ivy League (some) educated people end of doing professions different than they really want because they feel like they have to take the big money.
ps maybe my numbers aren't perfect, and I do think some NBA rules were changing that made it more lucrative to jump last year.
