What’s next, a cardboard sign with “Will Dunk For Food” scrawled on it?
Denver Nuggets center Jamal Sampson — who gets the NBA’s $106 daily road per diem in addition to making $798,112 this season — figures he pockets half his meal money, and he isn’t alone. “I’m the Subway king,” Sampson told the Rocky Mountain News. “I don’t do room service. I’d rather walk. … Subway, Quiznos, I’ll go to whatever sandwich shop.”
But Sampson says guard Yakhouba Diawara, who makes the rookie minimum of $412,718, is the Nuggets’ top penny-pincher.
“There’s nothing over a $10 meal for Kouba,” Sampson said. “Kouba will walk three miles. He’ll walk around the whole city just to save some money.”