Michael Jordan vs Erick Dampier career earnings

[Neutral 123]

just as a side note: back then the CBA had a way lower salary structure (including max salary)

Kobe's made nearly $100 million less that Garnett despite playing in the league only 1 year less because there was no max salary in place until the '98 work stoppage. Hence, Garnett got the richest deal in history before the change and Kobe got crumbs afterward.

By no means were they uping and uping max salaries until '98 and then forcing them to come crashing down. Players salaries just kept escalating and escalating and Jordan at his peak was making more than I believe KG or Kobe ever made.

EDIT: btw, this is what makes it so amazing that NBA teams claim to be losing money now. They got the players to absolutely cave on everything a decade ago, and NBA's revenue growth has easily eclipsed the economy's. They also have it in place so that the actual amount of NBA salaries they pay gets capped at a certain percentage of the revenue so it's not even like Rashard Lewis type salaries should be killing them. There's really no business on the planet who gets to cap talent costs as a fraction of revenues, gets to have revenues exceed reasonable expectations, and still manages to lose money without heavy doses of incompetence.

You are right. Although I'll say I don't think it's incompetence. They're just lying.

[phx#7]

You are right. Although I'll say I don't think it's incompetence. They're just lying.

Or horrible revenue sharing.

[Neutral 123]

You are right. Although I'll say I don't think it's incompetence. They're just lying.

Or horrible revenue sharing.

That too. Although I'd still say losses and how many teams aren't profitable is greatly exaggerated.

[thamadkant]

Capitalism has maxxed out in the USA I think... in the last decade, pretty much every thing, houses, services, salaries have tremendously increased and today its showing that the economy is so inbalance.

You see players, sports athletes getting $15,000,000 annual salaries, when the unemployment is going up... most will say, Sports vs Normal Job doesnt compare, but Sports is a Business that relies on the middle class to bring in the money... if you break it down, the business proprietors give the middle class sports to CONSUME, the money goes to the business and to the players... sadly a tiny chunk comes back to the middle class and its getting smaller and smaller every year as Accountants on these corporations find little things to cut back on and increase the profit margin even by a fraction of a cent, but builds up to be hundreds of millions a year.

I think SPORTS need a correction as much as any other industries.... Government wants to reclaim some of that 14 trillion debt?... start taxing the multi millionaires "good will tax", anything over 10,000,000 earned goes ALL to the government and the nation... after all, these players wouldnt be earning any money if it wasnt for the nation/country's upbringing.


Europe and other countries are struggling too, so they can implement this all over.



... yes I went off topic, because its ridiculous seeing players like Erick Dampier, who was born to be 6'11 and happens to know how to catch a ball and jump... and gets this much money....


Even better, players should all have the same base salaries, but incentives like All-Star appearances, and fan voting dictate how much extra each player gets.... lol, crazy but would be fair.

[hourockman]

just as a side note: back then the CBA had a way lower salary structure (including max salary)

Kobe's made nearly $100 million less that Garnett despite playing in the league only 1 year less because there was no max salary in place until the '98 work stoppage. Hence, Garnett got the richest deal in history before the change and Kobe got crumbs afterward.

By no means were they uping and uping max salaries until '98 and then forcing them to come crashing down. Players salaries just kept escalating and escalating and Jordan at his peak was making more than I believe KG or Kobe ever made.

Kobe's lucky in that regard, though, though he wouldn't concede it. If he had a grandfathered contract like Shaq did when they traded him in 2004, he'd be asking for nothing less than max money. He'd be bitterly angry about Buss not being able to pay for the supporting cast that helped him add 2 more titles to his total.