Wilt is just an all-around chill ass cat, one of the small handful of people on this site I could imagine having a good conversation with offline.
Somebody mentioned the homie Voulgaris, who is an ill ass dude.
After high school he went away to college to study philosophy at the University of Manitoba. While there he started up his own skycap company at the airport and in two years he managed to scrape together $70,000.
Consider young Haralabos Voulgaris: all he had to his name was $70,000 and a degree in philosophy. But he also had an opportunity.
The opportunity he had was that the oddsmakers were offering 6.5-1 on the Lakers to win the championship in 2000. The year before, the Lakers were eliminated in the second round of the lockout-shortened playoffs by the Spurs. But this season Voulgaris liked them to win it all. He thought the line was an overlay. So he did what anyone else would do. He bet his entire life savings on a 6.5-1 bet that would take over six months to decide. Then he waited. Six months later, after many nights of eating ramen noodles, many days of slinging luggage, and a 15 point deficit in the 4th quarter of game 7 against Portland, the Lakers were crowned NBA champions, and Haralabos Voulgaris had a half a million dollars.
Read more:
Betting It All On Basketball: A Gambler's Grind In The NBA - Business Insider
And he needs that game setup with all the basketball he watches:
I love totals, he said to Pokercast. When Im watching the game, I love calculating if Im on pace for the total. You really start to know which players are good for offense or defense or both more than any other way of watching basketball when you are betting the totals.
This takes its toll on Voulgaris, however. It can be more nerve wracking. When I first started betting I would turn down the volume on the TV and turn on a metronome. He tells me, the regular season definitely feels like a grind for me. There have been years where I have just taken a month off here and there because it felt like too much of a grind.
The grind is what makes Haralabos rich. His predictive models rely on an immense amount of data that is constantly being updated. This requires him to watch a LOT of NBA games. A lot of what I do is just watch more basketball than any other human, he told Pokercast. I watch about 400 games from beginning to end. I watch at least one or two quarters of maybe 85-90% of games. I may just watch every defensive possession or every offensive possession or just watch particular lineups or matchups.
The homey Wilt, I'd say his overall posting stee on all topics is up there with the gawds @
I'm surprised that nikka hasn't fake stanned the Knicks yet this season
