LaMelo Ball is next up to get paid: $260m/5yr Hornets extension

[bison]

Seems like 50 mil is the new 30 mil. These boys getting rich.

[Kblaze8855]

Seems like 50 mil is the new 30 mil.


60 is about to be the new 40.

KAT and Booker are both already set to pass 60.

And we still have people shocked and appalled every time they hear some non legend makes 50. Guys will sign deals that get them 70 like…year after next.

[Jimmy Rustler]

That's going to come out to about $10 million per game.

[1987_Lakers]

That's going to come out to about $10 million per game.

So he's gonna be making 820 million a year? :facepalm

Learn math

[Smook A.]

These contracts are ridiculous

[tpols]

It's crazy how much these guys get paid to part time throw a ball through a hoop. I get they're a lot more talented at it than you or I can ever be but damn...

We really a big enough fan base that we are willing to pay a guy to lose over and over and be a borderline billionaire?

We don't have anything better to do with our time? This is bread and circuses to the max.

Ceasar himself would be jealous of these deals.

[MrFonzworth]

So he's gonna be making 820 million a year? :facepalm

Learn math

Yikes you're autistic

[1987_Lakers]

Yikes you're autistic

No you

[Spurs m8]

Yikes you're autistic

Lol 1987 loses again

Christ

[90sgoat]

These contracts are ridiculous

There's something about these contracts yes. Best not to think about them if you want to be able to enjoy watching stupid kids play sports.

[SouBeachTalents]

Assuming they play somewhere in the ballpark of 60 games a year and 30 minutes a night, these dudes are making something like $25k-30k every minute they're on the court. That is fcking insane :lol

[90sgoat]

This is bread and circuses to the max.

Yeah, at some point, even the most apathetic of fans have to stop and think why owners are ok with paying absurd generational wealth to average professional basketball players.

Why are they getting paid 50x the best cardiac surgeon in the country? Why are they getting paid 1000x what a teacher who changes lives?

At that point, you realize the bread and circus must be extremely important. It must be extremely important that Lebron James doesn't rock the boat for real and just hates on white people.

At some point, you just can't watch that shit once you realize it's literally made to keep you dumb and not looking behind the curtain. I'm at that point with Hollywood, have watched less than a handful of american movies in 5 years.

I'm still watching basketball, but that's mostly because there's a bunch of eastern euros and slavs in the league. Those are typically from countries not yet bought fully by the american machine.

[Jimmy Rustler]

So he's gonna be making 820 million a year? :facepalm

Learn math

Wow, this guy has to be the dumbest idiot on this forum. :roll:

Nice try, loser.

[1987_Lakers]

Wow, this guy has to be the dumbest idiot on this forum. :roll:

Nice try, loser.

full court, no need to embarrass yourself any longer.

[Jimmy Rustler]

full court, no need to embarrass yourself any longer.

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Bet you're literally in tears. Aren't you. :lol

[1987_Lakers]

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Bet you're literally in tears. Aren't you. :lol

"10 million per game" - full court

:roll:

[Kblaze8855]

Yeah, at some point, even the most apathetic of fans have to stop and think why owners are ok with paying absurd generational wealth to average professional basketball players.

Why are they getting paid 50x the best cardiac surgeon in the country? Why are they getting paid 1000x what a teacher who changes lives?.


Because people who buy in for 30 million can now sell for 4-5 billion and it takes very few people to generate the revenue to make that possible. The end.

[Jimmy Rustler]

"10 million per game" - full court

:roll:

Yet another post went waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy over this idiot's head. And he keeps on taking losses. :lol

Everyone in this thread is playing chess, '87_moron is playing Go Fish.

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[1987_Lakers]

Yet another post went waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy over this idiot's head. And he keeps on taking losses. :lol

Everyone in this thread is playing chess, '87_moron is playing Go Fish.

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No, if it was someone else who made that post, I would have ignored it. But since it was you, I knew you were serious about the math. We already know how dumb you are.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?512256-Seriously-how-does-one-not-detect-the-sarcasm-in-this-post

[Jimmy Rustler]

No, if it was someone else who made that post, I would have ignored it. But since it was you, I knew you were serious about the math. We already know how dumb you are.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?512256-Seriously-how-does-one-not-detect-the-sarcasm-in-this-post

I don't even need to make you look stupid. You make yourself look stupid.

I bet you drool alot. You do, don't you?

[tpols]

Because people who buy in for 30 million can now sell for 4-5 billion and it takes very few people to generate the revenue to make that possible. The end.

It begs the question though how much of this wealth is real and not just part of the inflation scam.

Nobody watches Lamelo ball play basketball.

Pat ewing made 4 mil a year in 1994. Hakeem made 3 mil. Jordan before his 1st retirement made 4mil a year.

Prices in the economy have maybe... tripled. That would mean the average superstar on a relative basis should be making max 15 - 20 million a year. Yet scrubs get that.

This house of cards is gonna fall. This doesn't add up.

[1987_Lakers]

I don't even need to make you look stupid. You make yourself look stupid.

I bet you drool alot. You do, don't you?

You're not even denying it. Wow.

[Jimmy Rustler]

You're not even denying it. Wow.

Funny how EVERY SINGLE OTHER person in this thread got the post.

Except this moron. And then he doubles down on stupid. :roll:

Makes Ja Morant look like a genius.

[1987_Lakers]

Funny how EVERY SINGLE OTHER person in this thread got the post.

Except this moron. And then he doubles down on stupid. :roll:

Makes Ja Morant look like a genius.

They didn't know the person making the post was full court.

I did.

I saw right through your serious ass post.

"10 million per game"

:roll:

[Jimmy Rustler]

They didn't know the person making the post was full court.

I did.

I saw right through your serious ass post.

"10 million per game"

:roll:

With your level of retardation, I bet you're a big Lebron fan. Aren't you?

:lol

[1987_Lakers]

With your level of retardation, I bet you're a big Lebron fan. Aren't you?

:lol

Seriously, how do you routinely manage to say dumb shit all the time? It's quite remarkable.

"10 million per game"

:lol

[Jimmy Rustler]

Seriously, how do you routinely manage to say dumb shit all the time? It's quite remarkable.

"10 million per game"

:lol

Ooooooo, too ashamed to answer the question. :lol Well, here's a simple basketball IQ test that will tell us.

It's only two questions, and you only need 50% to pass.

Question 1: What is an advanced stat?

Question 2: Who has more choke jobs, Lebron James or Larry Bird?

[1987_Lakers]

Question 1: What is an advanced stat?
That question should be directed to yourself considering you thought "basic +-" was an advanced stat? Remember that? Good times. Every single other person in that thread went against you, but you still doubled down like a moron.


Question 2: Who has more choke jobs, Lebron James or Larry Bird?
Remember when you labeled LeBron the biggest choker ever because you listed a bunch of games he he shot 40%, then you ran away when I showed you Bill Russell had like 75 playoff games where he shot 40% or worse in the playoffs, but still has 11 rings? Good times.

[Jimmy Rustler]

That question should be directed to yourself considering you thought "basic +-" was an advanced stat? Remember that? Good times. Every single other person in that thread went against you, but you still doubled down like a moron.


Remember when you labeled LeBron the biggest choker ever because you listed a bunch of games he he shot 40%, then you ran away when I showed you Bill Russell had like 75 playoff games where he shot 40% or worse in the playoffs, but still has 11 rings? Good times.

Ouch. You failed your basketball IQ test.

CONFIRMED BRONIE FLUFFER.

:roll:

[1987_Lakers]

Ouch. You failed your basketball IQ test.

CONFIRMED BRONIE FLUFFER.

:roll:

"10 million per game"
:roll:

[Jimmy Rustler]

"10 million per game"
:roll:

Anyone who didn't know about the Bulls/Pistons rivalry shouldn't be allowed to start threads on here.

:lol

[1987_Lakers]

Anyone who didn't know about the Bulls/Pistons rivalry shouldn't be allowed to start threads on here.

:lol

"91 Bulls-Pistons series which was a 4-0 sweep was just a competitive as the '87 Celtics-Pistons series" - full court.

:roll:

[Jimmy Rustler]

"91 Bulls-Pistons series which was a 4-0 sweep was just a competitive as the '87 Celtics-Pistons series" - full court.

:roll:

Another true statement that you look stupid by denying. :roll:

Any retard that doesn't know Sabonis was an all star shouldn't even be posting.

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[1987_Lakers]

Any retard that doesn't know Sabonis was an all star shouldn't even be posting.

You mean the time you didn't know who Arvydas Sabonis was?

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[Jimmy Rustler]

You mean the time you didn't know who Arvydas Sabonis was?

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You're not taking your hero getting swept like a dirty chimney well at all. You've been reduced to a blubbering retard throwing epic bitch fits. :roll:

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This next season's going to be FUN!

:yaohappy:

[Kblaze8855]

It begs the question though how much of this wealth is real and not just part of the inflation scam.

Nobody watches Lamelo ball play basketball.

Pat ewing made 4 mil a year in 1994. Hakeem made 3 mil. Jordan before his 1st retirement made 4mil a year.

Prices in the economy have maybe... tripled. That would mean the average superstar on a relative basis should be making max 15 - 20 million a year. Yet scrubs get that.

This house of cards is gonna fall. This doesn't add up..


Your main problem seems to be thinking the money comes from how many people watch these people. The ratings. It doesn’t.

Ratings mostly drive ad dollars that mostly go to networks. The nba doesn’t live off that. The nba lives off the networks having the right to air their games no matter if you watch it or not. Why? Because espn, tnt, and so on charge every home in America with cable an ever increasing fee to carry the network. Live sports are the load bearing wall of an otherwise dying cable system. They’re the last thing to go. If your cable service doesn’t have live sports it’s not real.

That’s why you hear “Hulu has live sports” all the time when you actually watch sports. To cater to the cord cutters. Same thing apple and Amazon are doing. You may leave cable but you’ll never leave sports. And they’re transitioning things to pay services that can be streamed. The Super Bowl is finally going to espn in 2026 or 2030. They’ll also put it on abc(also Disney) for now but just wait. They also have the college football playoff. FIFA managed to exclude Disney from bidding on the 2026 American World Cup so that’s safe for now but streaming is coming for all of it to replace the old pay tv model.

Instead of 100 million homes paying ESPN 4 dollars a month out of their cable bill(unknowingly) they’ll have 200 million paying 15 a month for a Disney plus bundle including espn.

Disney plus is mostly old content, Hulu is almost all network tv just in a different place….espn is where the live content is.

And them, Amazon, and apple all need top league live sports to justify your subscription long term. It’s why apple has MLS the very year Messi arrives. It’s why Amazon stole Thursday night football and is now taking more games. My league pass runs through Amazon now. And the bidding war for the nba and nfl is what drives up the rights fees.

And that’s not even getting into international rights fees which dwarf the American pay tv model of the 90s. As does their internet presence and in time…licensing to sports books to offer bets on their games. 18 million people watching Jordan play in the finals was nice for NBC. 200-300 million having a Disney bundle, Amazon prime, or Apple TV and them having to cut the nba in is nicer for the leagues.


Long story short…the nba doesn’t need you to watch Lamelo ball. They only need to to have cable, a streaming service, the internet, and to gamble occasionally.

They can reach the entire earth now. 18 million Americans would be sweet ratings wise but the nba doesn’t get those AD dollars. Its not shit to the money a streaming giant has to pay the league to be able to say “Hulu has live sports” or to get you to add Apple TV to your subscriptions.

Turn the tv off for all they care. Long as a streaming or cable service gets your monthly subscription they have to pay the nba a lot more than NBC had to. Add them toppling state legislatures one by one to spread legal sports gambling while negotiating with Vegas mother casinos for 1 percent of all bets placed on basketball? Sports just helped casinos defeat the seminole tribe in Florida trying to keep legal sports gambling out of the state(protecting their monopoly). If they don’t push it to the Supreme Court that’s another state added to draft kings and so on to pad nba revenue.

Adam Silver doesn’t give two shits if you ever watch a game. They smartened up long ago.

Ratings are for ego. Rights deals are for revenue.

[ArbitraryWater]

That's going to come out to about $10 million per game.

how dumb is full court?

Here is your answer

[Jimmy Rustler]

how dumb is full court?

Here is your answer

Another moron who had that post go completely go over his head. :roll:

You and Dudley think Lamelo's going to play 82 games?

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Nobdoy ever accused Bronie fluffers of having intelligence.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Yikes you're autistic

:roll:

[ArbitraryWater]

Another moron who had that post go completely go over his head. :roll:

You and Dudley think Lamelo's going to play 82 games?

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Nobdoy ever accused Bronie fluffers of having intelligence.


what exactly went "over our head" in your assessment that 52 mil equals to 10 mil a game?

[coin24]

What’s with all these bulshit narratives? Dame deserves to win etc..

He’s had a few decent teams, played a few good first round series then fizzles out.. he shoots them out of games a lot of times tbh.

Shouldn’t have signed the massive deal to stay if winning was so important, that team isn’t ever going to spend the amount of cash needed to win a title

[Jimmy Rustler]

what exactly went "over our head" in your assessment that 52 mil equals to 10 mil a game?

If he plays 5 games, that's 10 mil per game.

I know this is almost like rocket science to your tiny brain.

:biggums:

[1987_Lakers]

what exactly went "over our head" in your assessment that 52 mil equals to 10 mil a game?

:roll:

[tpols]

Your main problem seems to be thinking the money comes from how many people watch these people. The ratings. It doesn’t.

Ratings mostly drive ad dollars that mostly go to networks. The nba doesn’t live off that. The nba lives off the networks having the right to air their games no matter if you watch it or not. Why? Because espn, tnt, and so on charge every home in America with cable an ever increasing fee to carry the network. Live sports are the load bearing wall of an otherwise dying cable system. They’re the last thing to go. If your cable service doesn’t have live sports it’s not real.

That’s why you hear “Hulu has live sports” all the time when you actually watch sports. To cater to the cord cutters. Same thing apple and Amazon are doing. You may leave cable but you’ll never leave sports. And they’re transitioning things to pay services that can be streamed. The Super Bowl is finally going to espn in 2026 or 2030. They’ll also put it on abc(also Disney) for now but just wait. They also have the college football playoff. FIFA managed to exclude Disney from bidding on the 2026 American World Cup so that’s safe for now but streaming is coming for all of it to replace the old pay tv model.

Instead of 100 million homes paying ESPN 4 dollars a month out of their cable bill(unknowingly) they’ll have 200 million paying 15 a month for a Disney plus bundle including espn.

Disney plus is mostly old content, Hulu is almost all network tv just in a different place….espn is where the live content is.

And them, Amazon, and apple all need top league live sports to justify your subscription long term. It’s why apple has MLS the very year Messi arrives. It’s why Amazon stole Thursday night football and is now taking more games. My league pass runs through Amazon now. And the bidding war for the nba and nfl is what drives up the rights fees.

And that’s not even getting into international rights fees which dwarf the American pay tv model of the 90s. As does their internet presence and in time…licensing to sports books to offer bets on their games. 18 million people watching Jordan play in the finals was nice for NBC. 200-300 million having a Disney bundle, Amazon prime, or Apple TV and them having to cut the nba in is nicer for the leagues.


Long story short…the nba doesn’t need you to watch Lamelo ball. They only need to to have cable, a streaming service, the internet, and to gamble occasionally.

They can reach the entire earth now. 18 million Americans would be sweet ratings wise but the nba doesn’t get those AD dollars. Its not shit to the money a streaming giant has to pay the league to be able to say “Hulu has live sports” or to get you to add Apple TV to your subscriptions.

Turn the tv off for all they care. Long as a streaming or cable service gets your monthly subscription they have to pay the nba a lot more than NBC had to. Add them toppling state legislatures one by one to spread legal sports gambling while negotiating with Vegas mother casinos for 1 percent of all bets placed on basketball? Sports just helped casinos defeat the seminole tribe in Florida trying to keep legal sports gambling out of the state(protecting their monopoly). If they don’t push it to the Supreme Court that’s another state added to draft kings and so on to pad nba revenue.

Adam Silver doesn’t give two shits if you ever watch a game. They smartened up long ago.

Ratings are for ego. Rights deals are for revenue.

That is a really good explanation. Basically the trickle down effect of globalization and the internet has made the billionaire class so filthy rich that they can afford to make 250 million dollar concessions to guys who will never get them anywhere in terms of winning. Which isnt to say lamelo isn't a really good player because he is but moreso the hornets just aren't winning an NBA championship (or coming anywhere close) during this term due to outside factors.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Yikes you're autistic

^This.

:roll:

[tomtucker]

insane......buying a ticket to a game make you look like a moron in my opinion, there is no need for those huge jacked up prices, and they would not be any reason for the high prices, if the player salaries were just on a sane level.

of course big stars should get paid big money, but now it's getting ridiculous.
and scrubs making 40 mil a year... bullshit.

If TV networks suddenly collapses and go bankrupt, like bally sports.... the cash flow will quickly stop.

ESPN is already feeling the heat, firing 7000 workers, including Jeff van Gundy.

[1987_Lakers]

Another true statement that you look stupid by denying. :roll:

There you have it folks, full court stating a series that ended in a sweep was just as competitive as a 4-3 series that came down to the final minutes.

[Kblaze8855]

That is a really good explanation. Basically the trickle down effect of globalization and the internet has made the billionaire class so filthy rich that they can afford to make 250 million dollar concessions to guys who will never get them anywhere in terms of winning. Which isnt to say lamelo isn't a really good player because he is but moreso the hornets just aren't winning an NBA championship (or coming anywhere close) during this term due to outside factors.


Yep once the internet gave them access to the entire earth instead of just Americans with cable it was destined to blow. And consider this….

These players make LESS than they used to by percentage of revenue. Players used to make 57% before the last lockout. Now it’s 50/50.

The players are making all this because the money coming is insane not because owners gave them a raise.

Theyre working with a paycut. Just a much bigger pie to divide.

[Jimmy Rustler]

There you have it folks, full court stating a series that ended in a sweep was just as competitive as a 4-3 series that came down to the final minutes.

Someone should tally up your posts. I'm curious whether you spend more time doing damage control for LeShrivel or damage control for your own stupidity. I showed you dictionary definition of "competitive" and you still don't get it.

I'm surprised you even have enough intelligence to log in to ISH. :lol