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NBA Players Want To Be Paid For The All-Star Game
by Larry Leo
February 20, 202418 Comments
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The NBA All-Star game might get a little awkward in order to possibility save the lame event. According to veteran writer Sam Amick of The Athletic, the league may have to look into an "uncomfortable" option: paying players to participate in the annual showcase...quote:(The Spun)
"But here’s the uncomfortable truth: In this season in which the league’s inaugural In-Season Tournament paid players of the winning team $500,000 apiece, that may be the only way to fix this problem," Amick wrote. "This, apparently, is the pay-for-play era. Even if the league already has players topping the $50 million mark in annual salary and a seven-figure minimum ($1.1 million).
"As one league source shared afterward, when the players had talked privately about why they’d chosen this tough-to-watch style of play, the IST set the kind of precedent that won’t be forgotten anytime soon."
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