re: Average NBA Salary exceeds $6.3 million

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They need to pay rookies more. They are doing this at the expense of not raising the rookie scale.


The first pick of the draft, Ben Simmons, makes 10 million dollars a year less than Cody Zeller will get next year

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I completely agree. I don't like the locked in payscale.

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Average NBA salary exceeds $6.3 milion

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This is a bubble and it is bound to pop. Only a matter of time.

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Basketball along with Soccer are the healthiest sports in the world in terms of youth participation, international fanbases that are diverse and young, no health issues for players. The bubble will pop for NFL and MLB but not NBA

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It's not about the popularity of the sport in general. It's about the fact that these astronomical TV contracts that the NBA (and other leagues) has signed are not sustainable. These multi billion dollar TV contracts are the reason salaries have soared.

The fact is, the majority of people who watch TV are not sports fans. But everyone who has cable or satellite still pays for TNT and ESPN and whatever other channels are airing these games. That is what allows these networks to afford the billion dollar contracts.

So what's changing? People are cutting the cord. Switching to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon prime, etc. and finding other ways to consume their content and save money.

Steven Adams is not worth $100M dollars. This is a bubble, and it will pop.

That is a long way off

i don't mind the locked payscale. but it's too low.

first overall pick should be getting 10 million ish a year not 5.


if the top 10 picks in the draft were locked in at


12 million
11.2 million
10.5 million
9.7 million
9.2 million
8.5 million
7.8 millino
7.1 million
6.3 million
5.7 million


it would

- prevent superteams. all super teams are doing is signing 3-4 superstars and filling the rest of the roster up with rookie contract players


- benefit college basketball because you're going to think twice about taking that 2 years away guy at the number 4 overall pick if you're paying him 10 million dollars a year. Who givea s frick if Dragon Bender doesn't produce this year he's getting paid 4 million a year bench warmers / locker room guys are getting 8 million in this market

of the 11 lottery picks this past year that played college basketball in the united states, 9 of them came from traditional families with both parents (all but Kris Dunn and Buddy Hield). 3 of the lottery picks come from families with professional athletes and half the people in teh draft have another reliever or family member that plays or played professional sports.


This thought that basketball is like football is absurd. NBA players are the elite of the elite, come from elite stock usually and elite stock doesn't grow up poor and taking handouts from nick saban


next year's college recruiting class includes kids from Shaq, Greg Anthony, Gary Trent and Ed O'Bannon. all in the top 40.