Michael Porter Jr Quickly Became A New Yorker, Saying He'd Rather Spend $250 A Day On Ubers Than Drive In Traffic

One of us! One of us! Listen, every person in New York knows that you have to budget for a couple of things unless you're a zillionaire: rent, going out with friends and other weekend activities, and Ubers. I don't know when Ubers decided to become crazy expensive here, but I used to be able to take a 8 minute drive home from the NYC office for like $17. I looked the other week and it was $42 at the exact same time I would have left otherwise. That's outrageous.

So what does an NBA player on a 5 year, $180 million contract do? Hire a private driver? Sit in the back of a Rolls Royce? Not Michael Porter Jr. Besides his outlandish media tour this summer from touring with the Nelk Boys to showing up at every celebrity party, you'd think he's adjusting to the bright lights of NYC quite well. And look, I'd like to think that $250 a day doesn't even make a dent in this guy's bank account. It's like his morning coffee, but he's riding in the back of a black SUV to the like 4 different places he probably goes everyday. But to every other normal NYC person who is stuck with the dilemma of a surge $80 Uber for a normally $20 ride, MPJ feels you I guess.

This comment made me laugh because it's probably true:

If you're a math nerd, if he truly spent $250 every single day for the entire year, he'd end up paying around $91,000 for the entire 365. He made $33 million in Denver last year, and stop being a tax nerd, but that's 0.27% of his income and it's arguably the most important part of his job: showing up. Man it would be nice to have those problems.

P.S. MPJ might BALL out in Brooklyn: