Poor, Coddled Athletes...Boo-friggin'-hoo

I expected to get irritated over the ridiculousness of religion in sports (and I did) reported in this piece, but what blew me away was the following:

DuPree was hired by the organization Nov. 1 as part of the NBA's four-year-old development program helping players make the transition to the fast-paced, big-money league.

DuPree, 42, envisions the program as a trust-based outlet where a player can come to him with any issue and receive assistance. So far, he has helped rookies Damien Wilkins and Robert Swift find cars and set up bank accounts.

All I can come up with is, "WTF?!?". These pampered athletes -- who make a league minimum of $367,000 a year -- need a program to help them transition from not having money to having money? WHAT...THE...FUCK!!???? They don't know that, in order to "find cars", they need to go to a dealership? Or that, to set up a bank account, one finds a bank, walks in, and talks with a teller or financial advisor? If they can't figure these things out, perhaps they're not worth $367,000 a year!!! I just can't believe this. There are literally billions of people on the planet who make substantially less than these spoiled brat athletes and yet hundreds of millions of them somehow manage to start a bank account and buy a damned car.

A program to help the knuckle-draggers "transition" to the big-moneyed world. I can't fucking believe it.