Media Brunson wonders about NBA players' pay.

[accolyte1022]

Most basketball teams actually lose money too from what I've read

...... yeah.

 

[Bjjpitbull8]

$900K minimum is pretty much getting it.

And that’s just a rookie. If you have 2 years of experience, the minimum is 1.6M.

 

[kflo]

And that’s just a rookie. If you have 2 years of experience, the minimum is 1.6M.

Lebron and other max players are subsidizing that.

 

[Anaconda99]

Well it isnt payed out of good will lol.

 

[Steve Pliskin]

How does the NBA melt steel beams though?

 

[GolovKing]

Yeah that's why smart business men are willing to pay a Billion dollars to get their mitts on a team.

UFC fighters are definitely underpaid but an NBA team brings in tremendous revenues and only has 12 players on each team to dispense the big money to.

...... yeah.

A confidential report shows nearly half the NBA lost money last season. Now what? (espn.com)

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Either he's being facetious or are MMA fighters just this clueless (leading to one - sided bargaining in contracts).

The NBA generates 8 times as much revenue

 

[Apollo33]

Most basketball teams actually lose money too from what I've read

A lot operate at a loss. However, the value of a franchise also increases over time. When you eventually sell the team, you make that money back.

Most owners own it just so they can join the elite club of other billionaires, they don't try to make a operating profit out of it.

Some franchises are worth more than the entire UFC

 

[superpunch]

They get half of the revenue. Ufc only gives fighters 20%

% of revenue to the athletes is a pretty useless stat. Fixed costs are going to be less in the NBA because they're just there, whether you make $4b, $20B, or $100B revenue, they're just there. So they're going to be a bigger portion of $4B revenue than $100B revenue. A more useful number would be the % of profit that goes to the athletes.

Even that would be useless because athletes might be responsible for more revenue in the NBA than the UFC; the UFC sells tons of UFC shirts and hot dog branders -- the NBA sells tons of athlete specific jerseys. So of course the athletes will get a bigger chunk there.

You can't compare 2 completely different sports like that. But if you do, look at % of profit.

IMO the UFC is clearly the highest paying organization for fighters at all levels. Especially at the bottom. Over half the card on Bellator often makes under $5,000 or $10,000. You see multiple guys making $1,000 a fight!! The UFC pays way better.

 

[Deleted member 510653]

Being a ref?

Baller

 

[Deleted member 510653]

There is a Brunson in the NBA.

Never knew that

 

[Local Plata]

Reminds of that scene in Louie where Louis CK talks to his accountant about buying a multi million dollar house while he has 6000 dollars to his name. "Let's look at the numbers."

 

[560ti]

Tv deals. Locally, nationally, and internationally.

Not only that NBA has over 1250 events a year.

UFC has what like 50 ? (lmao)

 

[Apollo33]

% of revenue to the athletes is a pretty useless stat. Fixed costs are going to be less in the NBA because they're just there, whether you make $4b, $20B, or $100B revenue, they're just there. So they're going to be a bigger portion of $4B revenue than $100B revenue. A more useful number would be the % of profit that goes to the athletes.

Even that would be useless because athletes might be responsible for more revenue in the NBA than the UFC; the UFC sells tons of UFC shirts and hot dog branders -- the NBA sells tons of athlete specific jerseys. So of course the athletes will get a bigger chunk there.

You can't compare 2 completely different sports like that. But if you do, look at % of profit.

IMO the UFC is clearly the highest paying organization for fighters at all levels. Especially at the bottom. Over half the card on Bellator often makes under $5,000 or $10,000. You see multiple guys making $1,000 a fight!! The UFC pays way better.

Well the problem is we will never know, not the fighters because there's no fighters union and therefore no transparency.

You can say the UFC pays fighters nothing or they pay 100 percent, but at the end of the day it's all guess work. And that's shady.

NBA salaries are negotiated with the financials on the table, the UFC salaries are pulled out of Dana's ass.

 

[DaleBoca]

A lot easier to be some third rate karate fighter than be a NBA pro.
Imagine having to fight for a living. Sad.

 

[Do The Evolution]

A lot easier to be some third rate karate fighter than be a NBA pro.
Imagine having to fight for a living. Sad.

True dat.

 

[Patman]

A lot operate at a loss. However, the value of a franchise also increases over time. When you eventually sell the team, you make that money back.

Most owners own it just so they can join the elite club of other billionaires, they don't try to make a operating profit out of it.

Some franchises are worth more than the entire UFC

This. It’s like buying a house. The return in investment is made during the resale.

In the period that an owner has a franchise, it’s more of a status symbol and about being in an exclusive club rather than operating it like a revenue maximizing business. Most of the owners have other ventures where they make a fuckton more money than they do operating a franchise.

 

[grimballer]

Because a clown isn't running the NBA.

Yes he is

 

[mjfan23]

I'm inclined to agree. Derek even assumes "everyone" in the NBA is getting it, which isn't really accurate. 150 million/5 years contracts (like the one for D'Aaron Fox) are normally for All - Star tier players.
On average, NBA salaries far dwarf MMA fighters', though.

Average nba salary is 8.2 or 8.3 million. Frigging Gordon Hayward who is a cripple just signed for 120 million in 4 years. NBAs collective bargaining agreement is very strong.

UFC is a slave model in comparison. That’s why WME and those Hollywood folks spent billions to buy it. The revenue sharing (or lack thereof ) and fighters contracts could make ufc very very lucrative .

 

[JosephTessaro]

$900K minimum is pretty much getting it.

He should have taken a different career path...