{"id":6299,"date":"2023-05-16T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:48:23","slug":"econ-major-declares-for-nba-draft-cites-fact-that-most-draftees-make-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/econ-major-declares-for-nba-draft-cites-fact-that-most-draftees-make-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Econ Major Declares for NBA Draft, Cites Fact that Most Draftees Make Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UChicago student Brad Henderson declared his candidacy for this June\u2019s NBA Draft Wednesday. Henderson, a third-year major in Business Economics, cited monetary considerations as the primary factor in his decision. \u201cMost players in the NBA Draft make upwards of $1 million a year. At that salary, it would be a horrible idea not to declare for the draft, because of, uhh, opportunity cost, and uhh, what\u2019s it called, uhhhhhh, the Laffer curve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henderson\u2019s economics professor, Milton Krugman, weighed in on his decision. \u201cThat\u2019s dumb Wait, who is this guy? Ohhhhh, Brad. He\u2019s the worst student in my class, by far. He once wrote a paper consisting only of the word, \u201cStonks,\u201d and after I gave him an F, he tried to bribe me with $20.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice Brecht, a classmate of Henderson\u2019s, agreed with Krugman\u2019s assessment. \u201cBrad thought that the best solution to poverty was to print more money. I asked him what he thought about Bretton Woods, and he said, \u2018Who? The golfer?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scouting report on Henderson is quite poor, calling him \u201cthe worst draft prospect in the past 50 years. He combines Shaquille O\u2019Neal\u2019s three-point shooting, Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s free throw percentage, and the defensive prowess of the Maginot Line. No NBA team is dumb enough to even entertain the idea of drafting him. Well, maybe the Hornets.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henderson has attended a few pre-draft workouts with teams, and has demonstrated a miraculous affinity for getting the basketball stuck in the backboard somehow. When asked by teams of his\u00a0 alternative plans, if \u201cby some miracle he is not selected by any team,\u201d Henderson replied, \u201cI dunno, I\u2019ll probably just work at my dad\u2019s hedge fund or something.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sportsbooks are already taking bets on Henderson\u2019s chances. At 5\u20196\u2019\u2019, 150 lbs, and a 1.98 GPA, he is given 70,000:1 odds of making the NBA and 45:1 odds of graduating college within four years. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scouting report on Henderson is quite poor, calling him &#8220;the worst draft prospect in the past 50 years. He combines Shaquille O\u2019Neal\u2019s three-point shooting and Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s free throw percentage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":6300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}