He made $75k last October
140k sep 2019
108k may 2019
now that’s not professional athlete money, but he shouldn’t be broke making over 100k a year salary
I mean, it's not as simple as that. That comes out to a salary of 160k per year. However, he didn't work at all for the first 8 months of this year, so he would be living off of the last couple year's salaries for the first 2/3rds of this year.
Also, your normal company gives a lot of benefits not included in the salary that he has to pay for out of his salary. For instance, he has to pay his own gym dues, when you go for a training for your job the company will pay for the training if it is related to your work. That is a couple thousand a year. He might have to pay for health insurance, you would normally get that from your workplace as well. Now maybe his wife has healthcare coverage and she covers him, I don't know, but that's another possible expense, and he has 3 kids so he would have to pay for family coverage instead of individual. And of course, it was his choice to have 3 kids, but the cost of having 3 children, especially if he's the only income in the household, adds up pretty quick.
Also, prior to 2019 he wasn't making 160k a year, so he might have owed people money that he borrowed while he was on the come up. So some of his salary may not have gone to rectify his past. And finally, he's not a professional financial analyst. He's an athlete, and athletes aren't famous for their money management skills. Even if he didn't do egregious things that we might think of as excessive splurging, he lost money doing things people normally do, like if he lost 1k on the stock market because he's not a financial genius, or he lost a couple hundred sports betting, it adds up. So is some of it probably his fault? Probably yes. But he's also ranked very highly in the division for a guy who is still one bad stock purchase away from having to borrow against his future earnings.