2020-21 NBA Player Contracts

[sakaimma]

Kids dream of making the NFL/NBA not UFC. MMA talent pool remains small until the pay goes up.

 

[chance mccoy]

Each team plays 82 games a year, that’s a lot of TV time = more money

 

[Daelh]

NBA players have the benefit of their sport bringing in a shitload of money, while only needing small squads, so the money gets divided between less players.

There are more players in the NFL than in the UFC and they have NBA salaries anyways.

 

[Andrusz]

People always bring up Basketball whenever it comes to athletes pay and what not, but realistically it's just how Basketball is set up.

There is next to zero upkeep compared to pretty much all other Sports. What do you need to operate a Basketball game? Wooden floor that they just piece together, an inflatable ball and some sneakers. There is so little operational overhead that the league can afford to pay their athletes tens of millions of dollars.

The Sport also has the lowest amount of players compared to any other League, next to no minor league system and it's really an Individual Sport masquerading as a team Sport. When your Top 2 make upon 60-70% of your offense of course you're gonna pay them 30 million while your bench players make 1 million a piece.

Also another aspect of Basketball that is unique to the Sport is how it is basically two businesses in one: the Sport itself and Sneaker sales. This alone guarantees the NBA a huge amount of cashflow just from the fanboys buying new shoes every year.

Honestly the only other Sports that has such lucrative side business is the NFL with its gambling.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

There are more players in the NFL than in the UFC and they have NBA salaries anyways.

Yeah, but aren't the biggest NFL teams alone worth as much as the UFC as a whole?

 

[Andrusz]

There are more players in the NFL than in the UFC and they have NBA salaries anyways.

No they don't. Some players have salaries that are similar but if you were to average out the amount per player is less than the NHL.

 

[Cracked_Rib]

That's what unions help you achieve, but according to some (the employers and their shills) that's just evil communist lies.

 

[tripleo]

Each team plays 82 games a year, that’s a lot of TV time = more money

I'm interested to see how the major teams can sustain to still pay that much salaries when there is no live gate

 

[tripleo]

Kids dream of making the NFL/NBA not UFC. MMA talent pool remains small until the pay goes up.

MMA talent pool is surprisingly huge around the world, any sort of combat trainings are related to mma, from boxing, karate, bjj, wrestling etc.

There are more players in the NFL than in the UFC and they have NBA salaries anyways.

they don't, nfl and nba bring in similar level of revenues but pay is divided much more in nfl than nba, because one nfl team has like 50 players

 

[Andrusz]

1 is a legit sport & other is joke circus show ran by greedy tomatoes

Yeah honestly.

Basketball always feeling like a carnival anytime I work a game. People just walking the concourse, the stadium blasting music all the time while the game is even on, kids running around. It doesn't even feel like half the people there are even fans of the spectacle.

 

[tripleo]

Honestly the only other Sports that has such lucrative side business is the NFL with its gambling.

don't forget Soccer

 

[Andrusz]

don't forget Soccer

Yeah soccer is definitely up there, but I don't know if it even comes close to the NFL. Especially since it feels like the NFL's entire scoring system is set up specifically for gambling and spread manipulation.

 

[wwkirk]

This is insane, who in UFC other than Conor can make this much, the 120 ranked in salary is making 10 millions a year
they don't have to suffer cte to get it either, don't have to pay for their coaches, have personal coaches from the team, their boss have personal planes for their teams

they can eat train and sleep in their franchise facilities for free, their own medical facilities and doctors, trainers, coaches, it's insane how the treatment is so different, while both being popular sports in the world

If UFC fighters were attracting the kind of dough NBA players do, they would have also have huge contracts. If NBA players were pulling in UFC level revenue, their players would have correspondingly lower salaries.

Also, it's a little amusing to hear Sherdoggers complain about UFC salaries, when so many of them brag about not paying for streams.

 

[dildos]

 

[Rocket Punch]

I lived in China half my life, while it's absolutely true basketball is the most popular sport in China
Nba does not make that much from it. For starter chinese government has completely stopped broadcasting nba games after the hong kong incident, the average basketball fan can only access illegal streaming online and nba does not get a cent from that

second, the average chinese income is low, they can't afford the nba merchants, shoes, t-shirts, jerseys. most buy the knock offs.

not to mention nba teams cannot make money from selling ticket to oversea chinese fans

Lebron supported China because he has his 1 billion dollars nike contract to protect, he was protecting his own brand, and since he is a global phenomenom, his shoes and clothing line sells a lot worldwide. Lebron's merchants sell more than entire teams in China.

China is not very lucritive of a sports markets if you really dissect it. it's less than 10 percent of nba's total revenue

Lebron didn't support China. he basically said players shouldn't have to answer questions about a complicated geopolitical situation in a foreign country that they know fuck all about. it was actually an incredibly intelligent take from him.

there is no good decision, because if you speak up for Hongkong protesters, you alienate and offend many Hongkongers and a lot of mainland Chinese. if you speak up for China, then you alienate a lot of Americans. there is no upside to speaking up

 

[kflo]

No they don't. Some players have salaries that are similar but if you were to average out the amount per player is less than the NHL.

Most sources I see have nfl at 3.3m vs nhl of 2.7m. Close. Nba blows them away at 8.3m. Of course, they are all crazy. Mlb is 4m.

 

[USA!USA!]

Wow Russell Westbrook is the most overrated player ever, he is straight up robbing whoever is paying him that blind. And this is what happens when the boss doesn’t save the money for himself to fuel a gambling addiction+transporting snow to the Las Vegas desert.

Westbrook is a triple double god wtf you talking about son lmaooo

 

[USA!USA!]

There are more players in the NFL than in the UFC and they have NBA salaries anyways.

2 things:

1 - football is the most popular spectator sport in the USA.. MMA is not.

2- football contracts are not guaranteed - only the top of the top gets anything like what the top NBA players make.

 

[Andrusz]

Most sources I see have nfl at 3.3m vs nhl of 2.7m. Close. Nba blows them away at 8.3m. Of course, they are all crazy. Mlb is 4m.

The source I checked was a 4 year old Forbes article that had NHL at $2.9 and NFL at $2.1.

 

[Andrusz]

Westbrook is a triple double god wtf you talking about son lmaooo

God, this is why Basketball is stupid.

Stat stuffing bs so they can get bonuses at the end of the year. Westbrook is the mastermind of this entire style of play. It's all just phony uncontested rebounds or last touches to stat stuff the assists and rebounds.