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Welcome to the millionaire tax bracket, NBA rookie!

I have a good friend who spent most of her adult life as a freelance artist. Months ago, however, she got her first real "full-time" job. A job she was ecstatic about getting. Two weeks into her new job she called me up and asked, "what happened to my money?" Huh? "They took like thirty-three percent of my money! Is that normal?"

Enter NBA rookie Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who is a newly-minted, 20-year-old millionaire playing for the Brooklyn Nets. With a $1.3 million guarantee in this his rookie season, Hollis-Jefferson is learning a fast lesson in life: there's nothing fun about paying taxes.