NBA Players Forced to Save Toward Retirement for First Time - Bloomberg

English: Chicago Bulls Scottie Pippen 1995 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NBA Players Forced to Save Toward Retirement for First Time - Bloomberg:

To combat the near epidemic problems of professional athletes going broke after failing to safe for tehir retirement, the new NBA agreement includes a forced saving plan:

"Beginning next season, players also will surrender 5 percent to 10 percent of their salary for retirement. They automatically will be enrolled in the program and would have to opt-out to keep from participating in the plan, Klempner said."

Note how the plan makes use of defaults (lesson learned from behavioral finance!)

Didn't know lack of saving was a problem? Here from the article:

"Former NBA players Scottie Pippen, Latrell Sprewell and Antoine Walker are among retired professional athletes who have experienced financial difficulty after careers in which they earned tens of millions of dollars. Walker filed for bankruptcy after being paid more than $100 million over 12 years in the NBA.


“It’s a start,” player agent Keith Glass said in a telephone interview. “It does force you to save something, and that’s a good idea.”