Talk:Personal finances of professional American athletes

Neutrality tag
I'm not sure what the problem is. Pro athletes get into a disproportionate amount of financial trouble, and it's backed up by referenced stats. I've included successes, but it's hard to present the other side when nobody's claiming that pros are generally savvy money managers. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The first sentence is "The personal finances of professional athletes are 'too often handled badly". In the absence of any objective guidelines as to what is an acceptable frequency, "too often" is necessarily a matter of opinion. There tone of most of the article is very negative, with much emphasis on the negative and very little on the possitive. (Perhaps I should have used Unbalanced instead.)
 * There are also plenty of weasel words, eg:
 * "many athletes are ill-prepared or uninterested in managing their own finance .." (how many?)
 * "many put their trust in advisers or managers who are often unqualified or crooked," (how many?)
 * "players are often turned off by discussions about their money that they do not understand" (how often?)
 * Mitch Ames (talk) 13:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * All weaselly wordings have been fixed or removed. The weakest patch, for "Many put their trust...", has "at least 78 players lost a total of more than $42 million between 1999 and 2002...". As for the negativeness of the article, that's unavoidable. People write about spectacular failures, not mundane successes. There's no List of accidents and incidents avoided involving commercial aircraft, just List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft. No notice = no sources. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks like someone altered the second paragraph of the Football portion of the Successes section... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.1.235 (talk) 00:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

New Section Needed on NBA Player Failures
Mfs57 Personal finances of professional American athletes is a major problem in some athletes after retirement, and in particular of NBA players. With 60% of NBA players going broke within 5 years of retirement, there needs to be more attention to the severity of the issue in certain athletes. What also needs to be addressed is why certain athletes of particular sports face this problem. A lack of education among certain athletes is a major concern, and often stems to financial problems in the future when education is absent. There are plenty of examples and studies about this in different sports, but failures are often not addressed enough, and the responsibilities of agents to assist in hiring financial planners is another issue that needs to be attended to. The sociological issues of this problem are not addressed in this article, and can be expanded on greatly. —Preceding undated comment added 05:34, 10 February 2012 (UTC).

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New section needed on professional athletes elsewhere in the world
Maybe it's just a matter of proper documentation but I suspect that many of the problems that plague American athletes also plagued professional athletes elsewhere in the world.--Xiaoshan Math (talk) 23:01, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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