Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers makes 30 million a year.
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Café — 7 years ago(July 11, 2018 11:08 AM)
Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers makes 30 million a year.
Lebron James makes 38.5 million a year. The fuq? This is literally the entire total salary of a whole TEAM if hockey! And often more!
In hockey, the superstar players, and we're talking the Wayne Gretsky-esque players, like Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin, are lucky to get $10 million a year. Shea Weber is the highest paid with $12 million. And for a team to afford one player to make that much, everyone else on the team has to pure ****, making 500K-$1 a year, for the most part, because of salary caps.
Most skilled, good players are in the 4-5 mil range. The 3rd and 4th liners are in the 500K a year range.
NFL players, like NHL, as a salary cap. They are paid less but still more than hockey. Tom Brady only makes $14 mil a year. Considering how popular he is, he seems underpaid when you compare to what MLB and NBA players are making.
And hockey takes just as much skill if not more than the other sports. You have to know how to ice skate in addition to playing a sport. And it's the most expensive sport to grow up playing - parents have to buy skates, a net, sticks, helmet, and padding.
I understand that MLB has bigger stadiums and pull in a lot more money compared to hockey, and have more games.
But NBA and NHL use the same arenas. The seat the same capacity for games. And basketball isn't exactly a top tier sport in America like baseball and football. They're on par with hockey as far as profit. How does NBA afford to pay that much!? -
2.71828 — 7 years ago(July 11, 2018 11:18 AM)
The NHL has slightly higher ticket prices than the NBA so it must come down to domestic and worldwide broadcast rights. I assume the NBA is more popular around the world than the NHL. And maybe licensing/merchandising.
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— 7 years ago(July 11, 2018 11:33 AM)It’s unreal how someone worries about a sport person making a few millions less than another…
While more than half the world are starving to death or working their asses off at minimum wages…
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Café — 7 years ago(July 11, 2018 11:43 AM)
The **** does that have to do with anything?
“It’s unreal how MLB, NHL, NFL, and NBA players are overpaid compared to minimum wage workers and the homeless” is an entirely different topic. And because poor people exist doesn’t change the fact that NBA players make more than NHL players, where the concern suggests that they are
overpaid.
Let’s never make a posting topic on this board again that doesn’t address that people on minimum wage exist! -
Rocketman — 7 years ago(July 11, 2018 09:54 PM)
Basketball isn't a top tier sport in America? Bitch, it's the second most popular sport.
NHL players are underpaid, but that's due to the fact that hockey isn't as big a draw as other sports, which is reflected in the way they each team is broadcast. Most games are only aired on regional networks, and I think NBC only airs like 10-15 games out of the regular season.
Basketball players make more money because of lucrative TV contracts. The renegotiation of the TV contract two summers ago saw the increase of a lot of salaries across the board, and allowed for a team like Golden State to sign Kevin Durant.
Tom Brady only gets paid $14m because he chooses to so the team can sign better free agents.
And, finally, the NFL needs to seriously get the **** on board with a soft salary cap or no cap at all, and start making all contracts guaranteed. Football is the most popular sport in America, and it isn't even close. Teams can afford to pay players proper wages.
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Rocketman — 7 years ago(July 12, 2018 12:11 AM)
Just about every market with a baseball team has a basketball team: Cleveland, Philadelphia, Toronto, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Oakland/San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, and Denver.
Baseball has become more and more regionalized in recent years, while basketball hasn't. Thanks primarily to Michael Jordan's dominance in the 90s, basketball has now skyrocketed to the upper echelon of sports, not only in America, but in the world. Baseball's reputation has taken a big hit from the Biogenesis scandal last decade, and many previous fans have become incredibly jaded.
LeBron should get paid whatever the **** he wants. Him signing for any team guarantees that that team's attendance rates will skyrocket, and that the team will be given an automatic berth to the playoffs.
And LeBron is hands down the greatest player of all time. Kobe was great, but the majority of his success was the result of having Shaq on his team for eight years.
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2.71828 — 7 years ago(July 12, 2018 12:52 AM)
Its rank depends on the metric. The NBA is more popular than MLB on television with higher ratings and revenue but has less total revenue and lower attendance. When you consider that MLB plays almost twice as many games it has much higher attendance in absolute terms. Overall MLB is in the second position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada#Traits_of_these_major_leagues
