{"id":74,"date":"2013-03-22T12:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/?p=74"},"modified":"2014-09-17T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:21:07","slug":"when-athletes-retire-is-the-next-step-bankruptcy-or-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/2013\/03\/22\/when-athletes-retire-is-the-next-step-bankruptcy-or-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"When Athletes Retire, Is the Next Step Bankruptcy or Paradise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;paradise&#8221; stories for the post-playing careers of professional athletes are without a doubt under told. The success of Roger Staubach in building a real estate empire, the multiple businesses of NBA all-stars Magic Johnson and Jamal Mashburn, as well as success in politics by the likes of Steve Largent and Bill Bradley, are known to some. Also, consider the Super Bowl&#8217;s most valuable player, Joe Flacco, the proud recipient of a $120.6 million contract, alongside option bonuses of $15 million and $7 million, and superstar Ray Lewis, who, in retirement, has recently joined a new team: ESPN. Let&#8217;s not leave out baseball, with Alex Rodriguez in the midst of a $275 million contract running through 2017. Then what?<\/p>\n<p>This recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/when_athletes_retire_is_the_next_step_bankruptcy_or_paradise_4804.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alert<\/em><\/a> takes a look at what comes next for athletes after their playing days are over, and how they can avoid unhappy endings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;paradise&#8221; stories for the post-playing careers of professional athletes are without a doubt under told. The success of Roger Staubach in building a real estate empire, the multiple businesses of NBA all-stars Magic Johnson and Jamal Mashburn, as well as success in politics by the likes of Steve Largent and Bill Bradley, are known &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/2013\/03\/22\/when-athletes-retire-is-the-next-step-bankruptcy-or-paradise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Athletes Retire, Is the Next Step Bankruptcy or Paradise?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226,225,51],"ppma_author":[303],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-athletes","tag-bankruptcy","tag-duane-morris-sports-practice-advantage","tag-retirement"],"authors":[{"term_id":303,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}