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 Posted: Wed 12:45, 14 Aug 2013 Post subject: Tony Parker earns minimum wage in Europe for a goo |
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Tony Parker earns minimum wage in Europe for a good reason,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Farewell,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], San Antonio,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and hello Villeurbanne. The Spurs star will play for peanuts in France and he's dipped into his own, admittedly deep, pockets to pay for his own insurance, too.
So why bother? Because Parker is taking a long view. Having worked alongside the likes of coach Gregg Popovich at the Spurs, Parker plans a management role for himself, too, in his post-NBA future. Boss Parker. Has a good ring to it.
Rather than fritter away the next few weeks or months - however long the NBA labor dispute lasts - Parkerwill invest the time in the French club he partly owns, Asvel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], based in Villeurbanne in the city of Lyon, one of the food capitals of the world.
He will play for minimum wage: 1,500 ($2,000 a month). But he'll also get valuable hands-on front-office experience working alongside club president Gilles Moretton. Asked if this was something of a business internship for him, Parker said: "Exactly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], exactly."
"I always said that after my career I wanted to be the president of a club and manage a club," Parker said at a news conference at a luxury Paris hotel on Thursday. "With Gilles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I have the perfect president to learn from. He can train me so that I am ready in 10 years when I retire.
"I'm learning marketing, how to speak to sponsors, how to push projects forward and all that. I want to learn."
Parker bought shares in the 17-time French champions in 2009,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], some three years after he,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Tim Duncan and other Spurs players played a preseason game at Asvel's 5,600-seat arena,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Astroballe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and routed the French club 115-90. After the first two years learning the ropes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Parker became general manager of basketball operations at the club this June,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], giving him a large say over player hires,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], contract negotiations and dealings with agents.
Parker said he wants to grow Asvel into "one of the biggest clubs in Europe" and build an academy there for young players,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], next to its planned new arena.
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