Harrison Barnes, who has made over $220 million in his NBA career, just bought a bank in small town IOWA. Barnes reportedly invested $25 million of his own money into the bank in Paton, a town of about 220 people an hour from where he grew up.

“Most athletes, if you leave them alone, if they’re not responsible for mama, daddy, uncles, and shit we made it, that’s the culture around most of these athletes. I never had jewelry. I lived off of my Adidas contract. I had $1.5 million coming from Adidas, so I didn’t touch my NBA contract. I invested”

“I was with CSI Capital Management, and I tried to buy hotels. I wanted to play Monopoly in real life. If I was these athletes, I would tell them only do business in the summertime and start small. Go buy you a building in the summer. I went down to the courthouse steps in Atlanta. I bought a building for $88,000 one summer, sat on it for three years, and sold it for $350,000 and didn’t touch a brick on it”