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It’s well known that Jarrett Allen is a big computer nerd who likes to build his own computers. This instantly makes him the most relatable NBA player to me, even more relatable than players who are a closer fit to my physical attributes and my skillset, like Matt Thomas or Luke Babbitt (RIP in peace), because I am also a computer-building enthusiast. If Jarrett and I were to hang out (unlikely unless I take up residence in a dumpster outside the Cleveland arena), we could talk about things like CPU cores, custom watercooling loops, and RGB keyboards.
This is getting me thinking about a new type of charity work that Allen could undertake. I’m guessing that most of the “normal” charity stuff is on pause right now, like helping out at homeless shelters or decorating pans of brownies at grocery stores. Can’t have the NBA players hanging out with the teeming hordes of riff-raff while there’s a pandemic going on after all. But this new type of charity work would be totally socially distanced and totally safe for everybody involved.
Since prices for video cards are so ridiculous right now (for a multitude of reasons), a lot of people have put their computer builds on hold. It’s one of the silent tragedies of 2021. What if Jarrett Allen just went out and bought a bunch of GPU’s for extortionate prices and then donated them to the needy members of the Cleveland community who can’t afford them? People with average incomes don’t want to pay $1500 for a GTX 3080, but Allen’s contract pays him enough money where he wouldn’t even feel the hit buying a hundred of them. He’s still on his rookie-scale contract, but his rookie-scale contract pays him four million bucks, and soon he’s going to be getting some kind of max deal, so if he blows the entire four million on computer hardware for the common man, it won’t even matter really.
Or he could just hoard all the video cards for himself and set up a godlike Ethereum mining rig. Then, when Ethereum moves to a proof of stake system rather than proof of work, he can develop and mine his own cryptocurrency called Frocoin. If he needs help getting that project off the ground, I hereby volunteer to release the Frocoin whitepaper which is full of meaningless buzzwords and unwarranted hype.