If you're making $21 million dollars in the coming fiscal year, here is my recommendation: get an accountant. This works well because not only do you have a lot of money, but you can easily afford one! Stephon Marbury would do well to heed this advice, considering there's a rumor that he just dropped $45 million on a brand new private jet. (P-Diddy quotes included for hilarity only.)
MAYBE Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury should have consulted Sean Combs before he bought himself a private jet. Marbury - in the last year of his Knicks contract, which will pay him another $21 million - is said to have plunked down about $45 million for the aircraft. But Combs, who already owns a jet, isn't using it because fuel costs have skyrocketed. The hip-hop mogul explains on Diddy Blog No. 12, which he videotaped in an airline terminal before boarding a commercial flight, "Gas prices are too mother[bleep]ing high," Combs says, wearing an off-kilter Yankees cap. "I've been flying back and forth to LA pursuing my acting career. If I fly back and forth twice a month, that's like $250,000 round trip. [Bleep] that! I'm back on American Airlines now . . . and I'm in coach!"I'd find this whole thing believable where it not for the part about P-Diddy claiming to fly coach. Wait ... what's that? Diddy's blog is a video??? Let's go to the tape (NSFW if your loser co-workers are opposed to F-bombs):
Mucho gusto to Ryan Wilson for the video. Well, I think my work here is done. If Diddy is doing a blog about jet prices and is indeed dropping f-bombs about flying in coach then I think it's pretty obvious that Starbury just spent 45 million dollars on a private jet. Thanks, Page Six!
(No, seriously, you don't need me to explain to you how this is a bad idea if it's true, do you? Because that would almost be worse than the actual purchase of the jet.)
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First of all, your condescending tone is highly uncalled for and also your gross presumptions about the state of the man’s finances call’s your intelligence into question. Forgetting hyperbole for a minute and focusing on the question of fiscal responsibility, 1. You do not know if he is making an investment, or is part of a group that invested an airplane 2. His net worth, while a function of his salary for the coming year is not solely dependent on that salary. 3. How do you know he does not currently have a team of accounts, financial planners and money managers or is this more of the dumb jock theory being advanced? You do yourself a disserve every time you descend to this level, it calls your talents or lack thereof into question. Have a good day, sir.
So it looks like you read the NY Post and just added a few sentences. Don't work too hard now.
You wonder how in the heck guys lose all their money. Well, here's how. We'll be hearing about this jet being repossessed in 3 years.