NBA Players Salaries - What Happens After TV Deal ends 2025

[lilojmayo]

When this sports rights bubble pops -- and make no mistake, it's going to pop -- it's not just the cable companies that are going to get crushed, it's the players and the leagues too.

So enjoy those contracts while you can, pro athletes, they may not happen again for 25 years.

This article got me thinking. NBA players are now making a ridiculous amount money due ESPN overpaying for television rights. ESPN though is now feeling affects of cord cutting cable movements. I don't see how they will overpay for NBA Again after 2025.

So what happens then ? Will NBA player salaries go back to how it used to be in the 00s ? Or will NBA sign big deal with streaming services like Netflix & Hulu ? Etc

Can anyone fill me in on This topic ?





http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/the-nba-tv-contract-isn-t-sustainable-070616

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11652297/nba-extends-television-deals-espn-tnt

[OmegaAtrocity]

I'd say we're too far out to project. That's 9 years from now, and in 2006 I doubt anyone thought streaming services is the direction everything was heading in, Netflix didn't introduce their streaming service until 2007.

[jbk1234]

In the words of Bob Dylan: "A hard rain's gonna fall."

[Ballerhogger]

Really it depends on the popularity of the NBA who's the stars going to be . Will we see better teams out there. The NBA does need buckle down on super teams or the money they got this time will definitely NOT be there. I would project at least 25% loss .

[Sark]

How many times in the history of sports, have salaries gone down? Maybe during the Great Depression? Maybe during WWII? Our country's appetite for entertainment and sports entertainment has only increased, and there will always be new revenue streams for sports leagues.

[montestewart]

Witness ATT trying to acquire Time Warner. Communications providers will continue looking to partner with content providers, and ESPN (or some other provider) will try to funnel NBA content through whatever device(s) are most prevalent in 2025, perhaps Google glass or equivalent via subscription backed by an ESPN/Google/Verizon partnership.

[lilojmayo]

Witness ATT trying to acquire Time Warner. Communications providers will continue looking to partner with content providers, and ESPN (or some other provider) will try to funnel NBA content through whatever device(s) are most prevalent in 2025, perhaps Google glass or equivalent via subscription backed by an ESPN/Google/Verizon partnership.

So you predict salaries will be roughly the same because of NBA ability to adapt to economic ?

[montestewart]

Witness ATT trying to acquire Time Warner. Communications providers will continue looking to partner with content providers, and ESPN (or some other provider) will try to funnel NBA content through whatever device(s) are most prevalent in 2025, perhaps Google glass or equivalent via subscription backed by an ESPN/Google/Verizon partnership.

So you predict salaries will be roughly the same because of NBA ability to adapt to economic ?

It wouldn't surprise me, but I can't predict whether the economy or fan appetite will support salaries staying the same or going up. I anticipate NBA providers adapting to changing technology, markets, and cultural trends. I don't see any reason in 2016 to not predict an approximate continuation in 2025, although maybe ESPN won't have anything to do with it after the current contract.

[Shock Defeat]

The NBA signed a broadcasting deal with ESPN at the perfect time, right before the sports bubble popped. ESPN is now on the hook for 1.5 billion annually to the NBA in spite of declining ratings and plummeting subscribers.

[Chuck Everett]

NBA has a good position here, primarily because it's not simply ESPN and Turner bidding on their games. NBC Sports and FOX Sports put ESPN in a tough spot because they have channels they would love to air content on. I think the NBA will be just fine in the long run because their sheer volume of games makes them an attractive partner for advertisers. And they attract the youth demographic.

[Warspite]

Inflation and tax rates are more volatile IMHO. The starting point of any deal will be the current one.

[richboy]

The NBA signed a broadcasting deal with ESPN at the perfect time, right before the sports bubble popped. ESPN is now on the hook for 1.5 billion annually to the NBA in spite of declining ratings and plummeting subscribers.

It wouldn't have changed anything. If ESPN had allowed Fox to steal the NBA they really be in trouble. The only reason ESPN has held its position is because they still have the most live Sports content. They may feel and recent decisions may suggest they may focus more on live sports and less on paying talent.

[vxmike]

Sports programming is valuable because it's one of the few things on TV where people still sit through commercials. Don't quite a few people just watch regular shows on DVR or Netflix/Hulu/etc?

[Hindenburg]

Doubt ESPN will be around for much longer

They're losing money and subscribers at an alarming rate and they deserve it

[Bergmaniac]

ESPN deal is only part of the reason the revenue has increased. Even before it was made the revenues kept rising in the last several years. The old deal was for 930 mln. per year, yet the NBA total revenue was 4.75 Bln. in 2014/15.

[BadMofoPimp]

Well, in 2025, the television contract should break a Trillion, so do the math.

[Sofa King]

Netflix deal

[boomershadow]

Surely at a certain point before the current deal is up, having the NBA App for your android, smarphone, tablet, computer, television, headset, virtual reality simulator, living room hologram projector, or Google Eyeballs, or whatever we're using for entertainment in 2025, and using it to buy games directly from the NBA will become the norm. Almost certainly.

The money will come in one way or another.

[lilojmayo]

Netflix deal

I don't think that would be likely because beauty of Netflix is the low cost

[lilojmayo]

The NBA signed a broadcasting deal with ESPN at the perfect time, right before the sports bubble popped. ESPN is now on the hook for 1.5 billion annually to the NBA in spite of declining ratings and plummeting subscribers.

This is what I was alluding. The timing was definitely perfect. But what happens after ? It would seems that it would regress to mean.

Then I understand accounting for inflation

5 years 80 million used to normal max NBA player deal. I could see it going back to that