2020-21 NBA Player Contracts

[Dbreiden83080]

Imagine being this invested what about a suits think to a sport you clearly don't like.

Couldn't be me.

I don’t like? Is that what you said? I am a lifelong fan of the sport. Old-school. I saw Michael Jordan in his entire prime. Yeah I’m old.

 

[RicardinhoPT]

Just don't pass the buck of income inequality in America on NBA players and people choosing to use their free time how they see fit.

You should actually research as to why safety nets that would greatly deter these problems we currently face were taking away, and I assure you the NBA won't come up once, outside of a stadium being built, and even then it's a stretch.

Oh I'm sure you're right that there are way bigger issues that cause this. My reaction to the original post was that the argument of the UFC fighters making little money compared to the NBA players makes no sense because 1) Basketbal players make ridiculous amounts of money and 2) We're not doing the same comparison for other jobs that really should be compared.

 

[keepemup]

When did he acknowledge what you're saying?

https://www.nbcsports.com/washingto...ale-back-social-justice-messaging-next-season

Fans do not really watch sports for politics regardless of party affiliation or ideologies

 

[pudgelarson36]

Some of the responses in this thread are so fucking retarded. The only thing you really need to consider when assessing athlete pay with the UFC vs the NBA is the following:
-Both have roughly the same number of total athletes.
-The NBA’s yearly TV contract pays out more than 10x the UFC’s.
-The NBA has roughly 1200 live gate event opportunities (pre Covid) per year in the regular season alone, which is about 25x more than the UFC.

The NBA has around 15x more total revenue to spread across the same number of athletes. It’s not very complicated.

Also, to those saying NBA players are overpaid... if that were true, NBA franchises would be bankrupt which they clearly are not.

 

[wlu.29]

Ratings were shit. In the playoffs and in the NBA finals.

Ratings for all sports have been down

It has more to do with people cutting the cord and streaming rather than the quality of the product

 

[Dbreiden83080]

Ratings for all sports have been down

It has more to do with people cutting the cord and streaming rather than the quality of the product

We will see what happens down the road because this seems to affect revenue and advertising dollars. Which affects the players demand pay raises.

 

[apap]

You're comparing playing a ball game to a fight...

What a doofus

Nope, not comparing. But I am saying if fighters fought as much as NBA players played, they could make that much money. That is of course if the fights generate as much revenue for the company as games do for the NBA. Economy of scale and all that.

That's why you won't see the majority of fighters ever sniff the kind of money made by NBA players.

 

[Kb7]

mma fighters have a way more difficult road

a lot start out as elite wrestlers, and then they have to compete in lower organizations, and hope ufc pick them.
once they are in the ufc, if they lose 2-3 fights right away they get cut
they be lucky to make six figures in their first year
then they have 3-4 trainers to prepare them for fight, which they need to pay
they have to pay the gyms they train at too
if they get injured they pay for their own medicals
it's a thankless sport

Now compare it to Boxing. If your going to cry about MMA payout, cry about Boxing payout also

 

[kflo]

I'm not sure about now, I was trying to look it up and didn't get information on current policy. Before Reebok, companies had to pay a (tax) to the UFC if they wanted to sponsor fighters. It was variable but one company on record paid 50,000 to the UFC for the ability to endorse a fighter.

That was a “tax” to display their sponsorship in the cage during the event.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Team sports should never be compared to individual sports and the NBA has been around a lot longer than the UFC. Some of the largest teams make as much as the UFC, if not more each year.

I know the boxing model is completely different from the UFC but that's the closest thing we got to work with.

 

[nore5]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30624750/nba-ratings-opening-week-significantly-2019?platform=amp

Guess again, they just had their highest opening week ratings since 2011

The fact that the NBA is blatantly using misleading statistics to paint a picture of healthy ratings should be a big red flag. This is the only time in history that an NBA season started during Christmas, which always sees the highest regular-season ratings of the year. Why are they comparing opening-week ratings from a normal season (games from late October) to Christmas games this year? And on top of that, they're citing a completely useless and irrelevant stat of "total time watched" without accounting for number of games being broadcast and the channels on which they're being shown (Christmas games being on national television vs. TNT/ESPN for opening-week games every other year). They're deliberately being manipulative, which is very unlike the NBA and makes me wonder why they're resorting to such scummy press tactics.

 

[USA!USA!]

Some of the responses in this thread are so fucking retarded. The only thing you really need to consider when assessing athlete pay with the UFC vs the NBA is the following:
-Both have roughly the same number of total athletes.
-The NBA’s yearly TV contract pays out more than 10x the UFC’s.
-The NBA has roughly 1200 live gate event opportunities (pre Covid) per year in the regular season alone, which is about 25x more than the UFC.

The NBA has around 15x more total revenue to spread across the same number of athletes. It’s not very complicated.

Also, to those saying NBA players are overpaid... if that were true, NBA franchises would be bankrupt which they clearly are not.

/thread

 

[Dreyga_King of Sherbums]

Some of the responses in this thread are so fucking retarded. The only thing you really need to consider when assessing athlete pay with the UFC vs the NBA is the following:
-Both have roughly the same number of total athletes.
-The NBA’s yearly TV contract pays out more than 10x the UFC’s.
-The NBA has roughly 1200 live gate event opportunities (pre Covid) per year in the regular season alone, which is about 25x more than the UFC.

The NBA has around 15x more total revenue to spread across the same number of athletes. It’s not very complicated.

Also, to those saying NBA players are overpaid... if that were true, NBA franchises would be bankrupt which they clearly are not.

Thank you for using logic

 

[Quacky Chan]

That don't mean shit at all.

Yes it does.

 

[johnnybeebob]

And it actually serves China’s interests to push divisive social agendas in America. NBA is literally China’s personal psyop

Alright Alex Jones. Chill