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NBA players turn down latest offer from league

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Average salary of an NBA player : $5 million

Average salary of an NFL player : $2 million

Guess which sport is more popular in the States?

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mrkobayashi,

It's a matter of # of players. Statistically, it's harder to make a NBA team than to make a NFL team, and the salary reflects that. Each NBA team has only 12 players on the bench; each NFL team has 51. Thus statistically, a typical NBA player contributes more to his team's plays (due to fewer players) than a typical NFL player contributes to his team's plays (due to more players). But if you look at:

Average NBA team payroll: $55 million Average NFL team payroll: $113 million

The NFL is the much more expensive sport to field a team, with the # of home games x average attendance just about evens out the total attendance (NFL: bigger stadiums but fewer home games, NBA: smaller stadiums but more home games).

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The players should have taken this deal. They won't get a better one.

Taka

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Who really cares. Billionaires fighting with millionaires over billions of dollars that the FANS end up paying in the end. They all are just spoiled brats. Talented many are, but still spoiled brats!

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Geez these guys already get a gazillion bucks from their personal sponsers and team owners....how much more do these greedy brats want? Too bad the actual players sponsers don't stop paying them for time off the court (duringa a lock-out) as well...if they did the players might be in more of a hurry to accept the deal they were given.

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What an insignificant squabble. If they don't save their money in their short careers it's not my problem. What they ought to be doing is petitioning for college athletes to get paid.

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Yubaru: Who really cares. Billionaires fighting with millionaires over billions of dollars that the FANS end up paying in the end. They all are just spoiled brats. Talented many are, but still spoiled brats!

Well said!

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Who cares about selfish basketball players with limited vocabulary. I hope the owners shut down for the whole season or two. I would not want to go any NBA games. Let them go on unemployment line like the rest of the population and look for real job.

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