Here are some of the most ridiculous things athletes have bought!
11 - Scottie Pippen While Scottie Pippen's on the court
accomplishments can’t be questioned, he DID make some questionable money choices off the court.
Exhibit A would be a jet he bought for $4 million dollars. Buying an actual jet isn’t actually that
crazy, because you can recoup most of the cost of the jet if you bought the right one. Plus it can
be a business expense! However, the expensive part of owning the jet is the upkeep. And unfortunately
for Pippen, he had actually bought a broken jet! How? Because Pippen apparently didn’t inspect the
jet before buying it. The jet’s engine needed a million dollars to repair! He ended up suing
his lawyer, and Scottie never fixed the plane. Do us a quick favor and hit that like button!
10 - Lionel Messi Lionel Messi figures that if he doesn’t
want to have neighbors, the best thing to do is to buy it all up! When you have noisy neighbors,
there are typically two choices: accept itt, OR move away. But when you’re Lionel Messi, you
have another option. Messi and his family moved into a house in a coastal town south of Barcelona
back in 2012. But they were extremely noisey. Messi’s neighbors right next door had bought
the house right before the 2008 recession, and they would have lost money if they sold
it at market value. So they decided to rent it out, and that meant a lot of strangers
coming around and having wild parties. Messi’s original plan was to build a
dividing wall. But a lawsuit from the neighbors prevented that. So instead, Messi just bought
the house himself just so he could have some peace and quiet! But this isn’t as crazy as:
9 - Danny Granger Former NBA star Danny
Granger decided to build a BATCAVE. Danny Granger earned some pretty big contracts. He
made over $70 million dollars in the NBA. That’s a lotta money, but is it actually Batcave money?
Granger started his Batcave project and continued with it for 3 years.
The catch here is that we DON’T know if it was ever completed. Maybe that’s the whole
point of having a Batcave? The last update on the Batcave was when he gave an interview to Sports
Illustrated talking about the details in 2012. In the interview he mentioned that the Batcave
was having a circle built in that Granger would park on. Then the circle would just spin around,
just so Granger wouldn’t ever have to back out of his driveway! And oh yeah, after that, the car
would get lifted up on the circle, into his house. Do you know if the batcave was ever finished?
Let us know in the comments! 8 - Al Jefferson
Al Jefferson must own the biggest bed that we’ve ever seen. And it makes sense. Al Jefferson is
6’10 and almost 300 pounds. In his 13 years in the NBA, he’s made over $133 million dollars,
so putting it into a bed that fits him makes sense. But did he need all this bed though?
His teammate Mo Williams was so amazed, he tweeted out a photo of Jefferson in his bed!
Look at this bed, it’s 10 feet by 12 feet! It’s huge, even for a guy like Jefferson!
The bed cost Jefferson more than 23 grand, a price that’s more than what
a lot of people pay for their car! But a big bed definitely isn’t as crazy as:
7 - Marquis Daniels
Buyin a chain of his own head! Why?! Marquise Daniels spent a decade in the NBA
before retiring in 2013 and he made more than $36 Million dollars during his career. Having
all that disposable income made Daniels realize that he needed a diamond replica of his head made!
It kinda looks like one of those faces in Madame Tussauds’ wax museum right?
The exact price of this custom chain wasn’t ever revealed.
The designer was Jason of beverly Hills, who definitely charges a hefty premium for his work.
What’s crazier than Daniel’s chain? THIS tattoo that he got on his forearm.
6 - Chris Singleton In 2012, Washington
Wizards rookie Chris Singleton spent TEN thousand dollars on lottery tickets for the mega millions!
That may seem like a small price for a player who made close to one and a half million that year,
but playing the lottery is basically throwing money away, and it’s almost NEVER a plus EV
situation. But in this case, maybe it was? Even then baseball superstar Matt Kemp got
in on the action! And he had just signed a 160 million dollar contract a year earlier!
The Mega Millions lottery was up to $640 million that year.
Singleton said it was either blowing the cash on the lottery or blowing it in the club.
Singleton’s NBA career was brief, since he played just three seasons for the Washington Wizards,
but he did make 4.7 million dollars in his career. 5 - Ryan Kalil
Ryan Kalil took out an ad in the Charlotte Observer guaranteeing that the Carolina
Panthers would win the Super Bowl back in 2012! Part of being a pro athlete is all
about having confidence. But this is taking a bit too far? You don’t need to look it up,
the Panthers didn’t win a superbowl that year, nor any other year since Kalil took out that ad.
For what it’s worth, Kalil played center for the Panthers his entire 12-year career
and actually was one win away from a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl 50 in 2016. When the Panthers
got to the Super Bowl that year, some journalists started to say that Kalil was just a few years off
in his prediction. But it’s better to be off in a prediction than be off on a budget like:
4 - Antoine Walker Despite making more than $108
million dollars during his NBA career, Antoine Walker has had money troubles.
We’re not really highlighting any single one of his purchases, but really,
just his spending problem. Anyone can go broke if they spend more than they earn!
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, he claimed to have a thing for cars.
By his own admission, he usually had six or seven new cars at any given point. On top of that,
he was buying homes, expensive jewelry, and all kinds of other things that he really didn’t need.
His habit of lending money to friends and his gambling issues didn’t help either.
In 2010 Walker filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy, just 2 years after retiring from the NBA.
However, his story didn’t happen in vain. He now works with Morgan Stanley to help educate athletes
on how to manage their wealth responsibly. 3 - DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson famously bought an ATM. Just why?! Stevenson entered the NBA right out of high
school in 2000 and played for 13 years. Stevenson made more than $27 Million dollars playing in the
NBA. So why did he put an ATM in his house? Apparently he was inspired by Rob Dyrdek,
because HE had one. That way, his friends could withdraw cash when they needed it because
c’mon, even if you’re rich, it has to get tiring loaning people money!
You could make the argument that the ATM is technically an investment, since he charged
a $4.50 convenience fee. You would think he would charge an even 5 bucks, cuz you know….that whole
Abraham Lincoln 5 dollar tattoo. 2 - Rafael Nadal
Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal just finished buying this yacht that’s worth a whopping 80 million
dollars! Okay okay, just kidding. It ONNNNLY cost him around 6.2 million dollars. It would have been
ridiculous if he spent 80 million on it, because that would be more than a third of his estimated
Two hundred million dollar plus net worth. 6.2 million for a yacht is actually quite
reasonable for someone worth 200 million dollars or more.
Plus it also makes sense when the house he owns has a yacht club in the backyard.
In fact, this purchase isn’t ridiculous at all. In fact, it’s beginning to look like
a smart move, Watch this video to learn more! Nadal has been a long time yacht lover and he
finally made the splurge in 2019, and the yacht was delivered this year. It’s a 80 foot Sunreef
Power catamaran that he named “Great White.” Nadal designed the interior himself prior to it being
launched at Sunreef’s shipyard in Poland! 1 - Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony posted a picture of himself beside a camel with the
caption quote “Everybody gots dogs and cats as pets, I got a camel.” Okay, makes sense.
When you’ve been a 10 time NBA All-Star that means you...buy a camel?! With the money he’s made,
getting a camel is barely a drop in the bucket. But it’s still….just strange. Do you know how long
he kept the camel?! Let us know in the comments! Here’s what’s next!