this is how most nba players spin their first check [Music] and tyler hero used his first check on a six-figure shopping spree copping a custom 25 carat diamond chain for 55 000. spending a hundred thousand dollars in designer clothes and most importantly buying himself his dream car a brand new 2020 mercedes s63 amg and this thing wasn't cheap because it cost tyler over two hundred thousand dollars yeah our boy balled out sometimes spending your first check can go horribly wrong because for gilbert arenas his first check made him go homeless in 2001 19 year old gilbert was convinced he'd go top 10 in the nba draft and in his mind he was going to sign a rookie deal worth at least 3. 3 million so a few months before the draft gilbert took out a four hundred thousand dollar loan and balled out but you know you think you're gonna go top ten like i'm you know i'm thinking millions you know so i bought an escalade had five tds in it four 12s had the suede i seen gary payne with suede on the top i want the suede roof you know so i spent all of that money yeah gilbert really thought he made it but at pre-draft tryouts he ruined everything not only did he refuse to take part in mandatory workouts but he also made sure to tell every nba team that his lifelong dream was to be an international pimp yes he really said that and of course nba scouts were not amused so instead of going top 10 his ass fell all the way to the second round signing for 330 000 his first year that's 70 000 less than what he owed this man was broke broke i couldn't even drive back and forth to the arena so i had to stay at the arena sometimes you slept in the i slept in a professional nba player slept in a room sleep was basically homeless basically take me back to the park i basically hope that's right but i just couldn't afford the guys when they did my budget i can only spend 500 a month for you know that's gas mac gas money girlfriend two dogs like i i don't know i don't really need money damn gilbert really fumbled the bag but not as bad as lamelo ball because the way mello spent his first check is getting him sued for millions yeah in 2019 right after graduating high school the melo hired publicist amber johnson to find him some big money brand deals promising her 10 percent of the profits and over the next few weeks she went to work pitching a lamello documentary to fox landing him a sponsorship on caffeine tv and most importantly negotiating lamellae's biggest offer yet a deal with puma worth 10 million dollars but oddly enough lamelo heard about the offer he told his publicist to decline and end negotiations immediately so amber canceled the deal and never spoke to puma again but in 2020 something suspicious happened a month before the nba draft it was announced that mello had signed his first big contract a 100 million dollar endorsement deal with none other than puma and after securing the bag lamello spent big topping a 276 thousand dollar ferrari f8 trabuto a million dollar richard mill and a 2.
6 million dollar condo in the heart of charlotte mello was dropping money on everything well everything except his publicist who claims she didn't receive a dime from lamella not for the caffeine deal not for the documentary and not for the puma deal so in january of 2022 she decided to sue lamello for 10 million dollars and our boy mello is still battling it out in court to this day but look not every nba player blows their first bag on themselves cause zion williamson spent his first check saving thousands of families from disaster see in march of 2020 during zion's rookie season kovid forced the nba to shut down entirely leaving tens of thousands of arena workers without jobs overnight people living paycheck to paycheck had their income ripped away and with no other jobs available they were left feeling hopeless the saying life can change in an instant it's as true as it gets so with people desperate for help rookie zion pulled through and changed lives saying a mother has always set an example for me about being respectful to others so today i'm pledging to cover the salaries for all smoothie king center workers for the next 30 days yeah that means zion donated at least 300 thousand dollars all from his first check damn i mean zion knows how to spend his money he needs to teach other nba players how it's done because the stories we got coming up are on another level [Music] but before we get to that we got to talk about kelly ubra because this dude is being blackmailed for millions all because of his first check see in 2015 right after signing his rookie contract kelly went out and dropped twelve thousand dollars on two new puppies saint and soul and over the next few years he built an unbreakable bond with his dogs even taking them on the road for away games but in 2019 something terrible happened after an ugly breakup kelly's ex-girlfriend went psycho refusing to leave his house slashing his tires and worst of all kidnapping his dogs this woman was out of her mind but to be honest for a pretty good reason it turns out his ex went completely psycho cause kelly never dropped a like and subscribed to the channel yeah that's right i got this crazy chick on speed dial and if you ain't subbed then she's gonna steal your pets and eat them trust me dog you don't want that to happen so just go ahead and subscribe okay but anyways kelly was heartbroken so he called the cops and even filed a lawsuit desperately trying to get his dogs back but somehow she was able to keep custody of saint and soul and it seemed like kelly's situation couldn't get any worse until january of 2021 when kelly's ex allegedly threatened to keep saint and soul unless he paid her 3 million dollars so kelly filed another lawsuit claiming he was being blackmailed and he's still fighting for his dogs back to this day man i just feel bad for kelly but who i don't feel bad for is lebron because this dude turned his first check into millions of wait no billions of dollars back in 2003 just a month before the nba draft eighteen-year-old lebron signed his first big contract a deal with nike worth 90 million dollars and with that kind of money you think a teenager would have just blown it all but instead lebron decided to hire his best friend maverick carter as a business partner for 50k a year this was genius cause maverick went on to close all kinds of big money deals for lebron turning a one percent stake in beats into 30 million creating lebron spring hill company an entertainment brand worth 725 mil and in 2015 maverick negotiated the biggest contract in nba history a lifetime deal with nike worth a ridiculous 1 billion dollars god damn this man lebron hired a financial wizard so inspirational but not everyone's as fortunate as lebron because what trey young bought with his first check got his ass clowned in front of his entire team see in 2018 just a month after being drafted trey used 166 000 of his first check to cop his dream car a brand new 2019 audi r8 it's here and this thing is crazy 600 horsepower custom matte black paint zero to 60 in 3. 1 seconds if trey wasn't on the court he was whipping the audi until a few weeks later when during team practice his teammate secretly stole his car and trashed it i guess the rookies got popcorn oh my goodness yo that's crazy [Music] that's high level popcorn trey trey might be smiling but i know his ass is crying on the inside and according to this fan his r8 still smells like popcorn damn but at least trey had a car because how giannis spent his first check literally put him on the streets yeah in 2013 when janice signed his rookie deal he wanted to give back to his family so right before a game in milwaukee he took a taxi cab to a local bank and that's where he wired all of his money back home to greece every last dollar and that's nice and all but there was one problem this man has no car no money for a cab and he has a game in 30 minutes so a boy started hauling ass this six foot nine famous nba player was sprinting down the streets of milwaukee to try and make it to his own game but it turns out he didn't have to run very far because after just a mile janus caught the attention of one generous box fan first cold day of the season we're out shopping and i see like two blocks away i see a very tall person running and i think looks like might be giannis he is running and he's wearing jeans and a windbreaker and it is 18 degrees out and i say can we offer him a ride he says sure he climbs into the backseat of our car and we have a really little car we have a honda fit right yeah so he's and he's sitting in the back seat all like folded sideways knees to chin i mean it's the only way he could have fit in yeah giannis pretzel looking ass didn't have a dollar to his name and neither did shaq because this man spent his entire first check one million dollars in just 30 minutes how is that even possible well in 1992 before even making it to the nba shaq signed a trading card deal with classic for a million dollars and the very next day he went on the craziest shopping spree of his life i always tell people this story i spent a million dollars in 30 minutes always wanted a black on black mercedes-benz so i go get it boom 150 000. my father said that's nice where's mine at i was like you know what you're right go get the exact same car for him we get home my mom's a little jealous where's mine at you know what so we go and we give her the smaller bins version so we got three benzes and then after that i drop them off i was like i need some jewelry so i buy a big old diamond ring similar to this one i get another ring for the other hand i get a bracelet i get some diamond earrings i get a necklace and i get a call the next day from the uh bank manager and he says i need to have a conversation with you so i come up there and shows me the spreadsheet of where all the money went i forgot about the agent fees i forgot about fica i forgot about state tax and sales sex so i probably netted like 700 000 but i didn't know that i thought i had one million dollars yeah this dude forgot about taxes man shaq's gotta regret that one but i can't say the same for john moran because he spent his first check on his parents and it changed their lives forever see in the early 2000s when john was just a kid his parents knew he was special so much so that not only did his mom give up her biology career but his dad walked away from pro basketball just to train him thinking that one day jack could become one of the greatest players in nba history and as john got older his parents pushed him every single day from backyard nba drills to having him play kids twice his age hell they even put a basketball hoop in the living room all to help him make it to the nba by 2019 john officially achieved his dreams being the second overall pick in the nba draft owing it all to his parents and jai you always said that your dad gave up his basketball dreams to help you accomplish yours so tell your dad what this means it means a lot for both of us we both know what i've been through i want to get a little emotional up here man but i just want to thank him for everything he's done for me um he made me who i am today and i'm just thankful for it all great job and after signing a 39 million rookie deal jaw figured what better way to blow his first check than by showing his parents some love not only copping them both brand new whips a hellcat for his dad and an audi for his mom but also buying them their dream home a 9 000 square foot mansion in tennessee worth 2.
