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Three-fifths busted: The financial future of an NBA player

Except that the Denver Nuggets' Gallo, Chandler, and Jokic can't afford to buy a beer.

What the hell kind of a joke is that? What a crappy punch line. Poor structure, too many characters, just kind of a turd taco of an attempt.

Except it's not a joke. It's a math problem. One introduced to us by former NBA star and player's union VP Adonal Foyle.

Foyle was a part of a great story recently run in Belleville, Illinois' Belleville News-Democrat, detailing the financial rise and fall of Darius Miles, a Belleville native who had been signed to the NBA directly out of high school, spent eight seasons in the NBA with career earnings of 82.