aka the Dough Boy.

I hope to be that well conditioned

bounce

And hillarious.

Dude, it’s one thing to make fun of fat people. It is a VERY different thing to make fun of fat NBA players.

389?

ANY of us would get fat living there with million of dollars to eat out every night.

Jerome and Eddy Curry can’t be blamed! They are the victims here.

M—

I’m sure he would like to be a more successful player than he is and doesn’t enjoy always sitting on the bench watching stars and never playing in the last years. But isn’t motivated enough to do everything for it, kinda like Eddy Curry who (aside from his known heart condition) would have the physical tools to be a mini-Shaq. With his injury last year, his motivation and self-discipline to stay in the best shape he can be seems to have gone completely out the window.

Controlling weight has much less to do with working out than with what, when and how much you eat. It’s physically impossible to work away everything if you eat too much (especially fat, salt, sugar, …). For less than 1 additional piece of cake, you would have to run or bike hard for 30 minutes. If an athlete even with a top metabolism eats half of what courtsideerrantboy describes above, it’s impossible to work that out without adding weight. Working out is important and doubly so for an athlete to e.g. keep your heart and blood vessels in check and your muscles active, but it has less to do with keeping your weight in check than people think. If Jones would pay a nutritionist and a cook, he would be in better shape even if he would just ride a (stationary) bike and run and play a bit in the off-season.

The simple fact is these guys have a better chance of just about anyone in the world to live a healthy lifestyle. Their employer is demanding / begging for them to stay in shape. The team will supply dieticans, personal trainers, life trainers, private workouts, world class facilities the plebs / proletariat would die for. They can drift, and go with the flow of a regular nba team schedule and still stay in pretty good shape. They really have no excuse for getting like that.

I lost 70lbs last year, and realized my weight became an issue because of choices I made, and made the correct choices to lose it and live a healthy lifestyle. Granted, very poor people ( the majority of our obese population is poor ) are going to be less likely to make the correct decisions regarding health, but these guys are not, and have an army of people pushing them to make good lifestyle choices.

I hope he can pull it together and salvage his career, but I don’t feel sorry for him or any obese people really. I work as a paramedic and have to lift these people when they fall, get into car wrecks and get very sick, and it is a huge hazard when we respond on them. I have hurt my back several times because people just can’t put the fork down.

…especially for Duck, since he clearly had a problem even though he wanted to make us happy by being skinnier.

James just has given up and doesn’t even pretend he isn’t just getting paid 6 million a year to do nuthin’. That sort of behavior deserves our mockery.

Duck was sad, James is laughing all the way to the bank to me.

Morty