Mamma Mia...here you go again...my, my...Stanford really taught ya!One of our favorite Stanford-bred hoopstars, the #1 Josh Childress, is packing his fro and shipping it to the tropical paradise of Skopelos Island in Greece, to play for the Olympiacos CFP basketball club.
What does the CFP stand for? None other than "Club of Fans of Piraeus". So Childress is playing for the Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus. This club isn't just about basketball either. They also have football (soccer?), volleyball, water polo, swimming, and ATHLETICS. Pretty neat, huh? I learned all that from my good old reliable encyclopedia of Wikipedia.
So why would anyone jump from the NBA, the league that has the world's greatest basketball players, and land with a basketball club that's immersed with a bunch of small Euroleague teams?
For starters, Childress went to Stanford. He's one smart cookie. Besides winning the NBA championship and winning the MVP award, or even appearing in an All-Star game, he's done all he could in the NBA. I mean, he's already been in the NBA playoffs this past year with the Atlanta Hawks. The Boston Celtics won, but the Hawks ALMOST beat them in Game 7 in round 1. If that had happened, imagine the entire city of HOTlanta going crazy with a Hawks championship. So yeah, he's already had his moment in the NBA. But the one true dream that every NBA player loathes in their NBA career is to be on the cover of a video game. And look what Josh Childress accomplished:
What else, you ask? Was it the 3 years of guraranteed money of $20 million? Nope. He could've made more in the NBA. The only other reason Childress decided on this intelligent move was because he watched Mamma Mia over the weekend and absolutely FELL IN LOVE with Skopelos Island, the location where Mamma Mia was filmed. The singing, the dancing, the blue waters, the happiness....WHO COULD RESIST?!
Just look at that. Wow! Who wouldn't want to live there? Way to go, Josh. Your Stanford edu-mammamia-cation really came in handy. You're going to be a huuuuuuge star in Greece, with the BIGGEST fro the Greeks have ever seen. I'm soooooooo jealous of you right now, retiring at a young age in paradise. Take this little tour of the Skopelos Island if you need a little more convincing why everyone would want to be in Josh Childress' shoes right now.
1 comments:
$20 mill for 3 years is more than Josh Childress could ever ask for from the Hawks, he's not even good.
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