Cheap KD 9 was the first to arrive at the team’s training facility on a recent weekend morning. James Michael McAdoo turned on the stereo, laced up his sneakers and joined three members of the Golden State Warriors’ video department for a workout before practice.They call themselves the Breakfast Club, and McAdoo, a 6-foot-9-inch power forward, enjoys the relative solitude of these early-morning sessions. They are also necessary because he spends most games watching from a courtside folding chair. He needs the extra work. His teammates, who know him as Mac, appreciate his approach.
Latest Jordans 2017 have been mainstays on the Warriors’ roster: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston and James Michael McAdoo. That McAdoo has stuck around is a credit to his work ethic, his team-first attitude and his cheap contract.Curry has made 851 3-pointers over the last three seasons. McAdoo has played 499 minutes.“It’s tough,” the assistant coach Ron Adams said, “because we have so many good players.”Despite the unforgiving calculus of playing for a superteam, McAdoo arrives early and stays late, both to develop as a player and to help motivate his teammates.
Jordans For Cheap share a modest apartment in a quiet neighborhood here with two dogs and a cat. Most of McAdoo’s neighbors seem oblivious to his line of work. Lauren McAdoo has adopted her husband’s view of life in the N.B.A.“We don’t take it for granted,” she said. “There are a lot of guys who would kill to sit on the bench of a championship team.”
The Warriors have their own form of income inequality. The team’s top five players consume 76 percent of the payroll, with Durant and his $26.5 million salary accounting for about a quarter of it. Eight players on the current roster will make less than $2 million this season. Among them is McAdoo, who agreed to a one-year deal worth $980,000 in July.
