NBA Tips

Hot and Cold Tippers

If someone went out to find out about who tips the most in today's NBA, who do you guys think would be on the list?

Allan Houston should tip big out of guilt.

SHAWN KEMP, Cavaliers: It's not hard to find limo drivers, waiters and waitresses who say the Reign Man left them little or no gratuity.

the man needs his crack....leave him alone.

Theres no way Spree is gonna be tipping

KEVIN GARNETT, Timberwolves: Pizza-delivery people complain that he never tips, despite his six-year, $125 million contract.

Take that Riot.

I reckon Damon Jones must be a stingy bastard

KEVIN GARNETT, Timberwolves: Pizza-delivery people complain that he never tips, despite his six-year, $125 million contract.

Take that Riot.

Pizza delivery? I don't tip them and I'm sure you don't tip them either.

Plus, he would love to tip Pizza Delivery men but he is too busy giving over $1 million dollars to Hurricane Katrina relief and millions more in his own charity funds. Maybe he doesn't tip well but he makes up for it with his charity work.

Allan Houston should tip big out of guilt.

Grant Hill also.

KEVIN GARNETT, Timberwolves: Pizza-delivery people complain that he never tips, despite his six-year, $125 million contract.

Take that Riot.

I don't tip them and I'm sure you don't tip them either.

I'm sure neither of you have $125 million on bank account.

Pizza delivery? I don't tip them and I'm sure you don't tip them either.

Can't refute that. Fair enough.

i dont know what it's like in the states, but pizza delivery guys get paid jack shit, a lot of them really only make any money through tips.

wouldnt expect thousand dollar tips, but give them something.

Allan Houston should tip big out of guilt.

Grant Hill also.

So should JOsh Smith. I heard he was pretty cheap

i dont know what it's like in the states, but pizza delivery guys get paid jack shit, a lot of them really only make any money through tips.

wouldnt expect thousand dollar tips, but give them something.

I have a friend who delivers pizza for Papa John's and he gets paid $8.00/hr.

I usually tip $2 for pizza delivery people...I thought everybody did. Those high-schoolers need some dough to soup up their hatchback Honda Civics, c'mon now!

I tip pizza delivery people all the time. As a matter of fact, I tip people all the time. You see, my wife works at a hair salon, and much of her income comes from tips. I can appreciate what it is like to work and depend on tips. Besides whats a couple of dollars? So I drink one less bottle of pop a day or something. KG should be ashamed that he doesn't tip, let alone tip well.

It says he doesn't tip pizza delivery people (and I question who the source is). How do you know what he tips his waiter at a restraunt? My friends sister works at a restraunt in downtown Minneapolis and Garnett and a bunch of his friends came there and got a room all to themselves. At the end of the night Garnett left a $100 bill for the tip. Now, they spent a lot of money there but still...$100 tip?

Just because you make a lot of money doesn't mean you should be throwing around $1,000 checks. Garnett gives a good amount of money away to charity. You see a site that says "pizza delivery people complain that Garnett doesn't tip" and you automatically believe it is true? Not to mention you think it applies for everything in life.

So I guess I did make an unfair assumption that the information was true, and I guess I did apply it a bit liberally. But I also don't feel you can equate tipping to giving to charity. Two tottaly different things. Anways, so he tips $100 at a restaraunt, thats fine and dandy. But I can easily imagine Garnett and his buddies going to a restaraunt and laying down $400. So a $100 tip is 25% of the bill. I tip 25% on occasion, so that isn't anything to brag about. I'm not trying to say that Garnett is evil, I think he is one of the true gentlemen in the NBA. I would LOVE to have him play for my team. I just dont think you always look objectively at what he does. BUT, thats ok because you are a fan, and that is what being a fan is all about, being totally unobjective!

I don't understand how this source is considered legit, though. It has a one sentence blurb about how he never tips when he orders pizza. Where did they get this information from? Did they go around polling random pizza guys about it?

Not to mention the article is nine years old. Garnett was merely 20-21 years old.

Funny, i've actually heard that complaint about Pippen before.

Maybe it's local...if you don't tip a delivery person in Chicago you can get killed. My girlfriend has gotten into two (verbal) altercations because the delivery guy didn't think she paid enough for their time and we had to call the restaurant and complain about the guy starting something up.

When you order food the last thing you want is to have a fight delivered to yor apartment.

Funny, i've actually heard that complaint about Pippen before.

Maybe it's local...if you don't tip a delivery person in Chicago you can get killed. My girlfriend has gotten into two (verbal) altercations because the delivery guy didn't think she paid enough for their time and we had to call the restaurant and complain about the guy starting something up.

When you order food the last thing you want is to have a fight delivered to yor apartment.

Yeah, I was surprised when Riot said he didn't tip pizza delivery guys. I only tipped a guy 30 cents once, because that's all the money I had, and he flipped out on me and started screaming shit and was like "you forgot your change asshole!! You clearly need this so much worse then I do! Peice of shit!"

I never tip my pizza delivery guys. It just never really entered my mind. None of them have ever said anything to me about it like they have to you guys. Maybe I should start tipping pizza delivery guys?

riot is now doing garnett apologizing on Pizza delivery tips?
maybe it's a force of habit. Garnett's used to having someone else take of things late in games so maybe it's the same thing with tips

Funny, i've actually heard that complaint about Pippen before.

yeh- actually the NO tippin' Pippen thing originated in Chicago

some of you guys are Mr Pink-like, cheap, penny pinching, bastards. just tip the pizza delivery guy- especially if there isn't a delivery charge included in the bill.

if anything just to not have your next pizza spit on. trust me- in the food industry, the workers remember the assholes

This is why I love Australia, we don't tip at all.

actually, i went to a restaurant once, and they had a bowl at the front counter labelled "Tips". practically demanding them. needless to say, the food/service was shit.

actually, i went to a restaurant once, and they had a bowl at the front counter labelled "Tips". practically demanding them. needless to say, the food/service was shit.

Yeah I find that to be rather common in Melbourne these days. Only problem is I'm a poor student and can't afford giving away a couple dollars here and there when I'm only getting a sandwich or a coffee. I will tip if I get a nice meal or something, but anything else you can get stuffed.