Hoos Going Pro 2022-23 NBA Season

Men's Basketball
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Totally agree, I didn’t have Jaylen on my card as next max guy from the Celtics but I get it. I also won’t be surprised when they are trying to move him and the contract ala Portland and Dame.

@NorVaHoo I get the point you’re making and it’s valid. But that’s simply not the way the world works unfortunately and I say that as someone who works in education and politics. The economics of it are the NBA and all sports support those type of salaries and if the market can take it, it will. Now if we want to discuss the ethics of an athletes pay comparative to a teacher sure have it, it’s a valid one.

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They might not but the big pharma that is selling the cure sure will.

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Does anyone deserve the money they are paid? I don’t know, that’s a philosophical/ethical question far outside my area of expertise.

What I can contribute to this conversation is a link to a story about a German basketball team whose mascot is Karl Marx. Enjoy: Basketball: Karli Marx - Germany's most unusual sports mascot - basketball - Archysport

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2254

No LRA needs to give me a much needed pay raise for being me.

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2255

Can’t trade him for a calendar year

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Jonas Salk comes to mind

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2257

I think NBA players are way underpaid actually

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They’re doing great compared to NFL players

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I dont see the comparison between the two sports but too long for me to type on my fone ha

Quick math NBA has 450 players during the season. Thats pretty exclusive and if teams and the League are making lots and lots of money we could proly do math on the middle of the league underpaid

Edit: maybe NFL guys are underpaid too

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Yeah I agree with both of you. In the world we live in, where the NBA as a league makes billions of profit, the players are very underpaid (especially top end talent for the value they bring). However, in the grand scheme of things, I do wish the world was different enough to where high level professions that take equal effort to reach (doctor, engineers, etc.) are paid in the same range or more (because they bring VALUE to society as a whole). The second point is kind of meaningless though, because that isn’t the world we live in.

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End of the day it is “only” money. People make what they are paid for and sadly intangibles (teachers etc) dont factor that in

Edit: the number of like Particle Physics PHd on Wall Street is actually alarming.

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Exactly, you’re only as valuable as the cost of the person who could replace you

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Being said I think Brown just became massively overpaid and not sure any Celtic fans will agree with the contract

Sidenote: I am not a Celtic fan

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Yeah, I think this ends up handicapping the Celtics in ~2-3 years when the deal is in effect. The trade kicker and Brown getting older will have teams a lot more hesitant to trade for him and unless he gets his turnovers under control he probably isn’t worth the percentage of the cap he’ll be taking up for a championship team (But the Celtics absolutely HAD to do the deal)

But towards the end of this deal (5-6 years from now), I imagine it will be quite easy to get out of it if he doesn’t progress just due to the cap rising and he’ll still be in his prime.

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Had me until this.

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Larry Bird made ~$25M in his entire 13 year career

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So did Magic, right? Signed 25 years 1 million per and chose Cons over Nike stock ha

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Think the middle of the NBA has it best of any athletes in any sport. No other sport is a Brogdon level player making $80 million on a contract. The limits on the stars really help out the middle level guys

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Weapons were the shoe before Mike though.

There was a life sized cardboard cutout of this ad in Leggett’s of all places when I was a kid. I wanted it for my room. Didn’t get it.

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Thats a good point but is also a business decision by organisations. And obviously the money is there (for now)

Remember when Joe Harris was kinda talked about as the perfect NBA guard in todays game?

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