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NBA superstar worth $50M a year, Kobe worth $70M
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08:09 AM ET 09.30 | Just how much is a superstar in basketball worth? Let owners bid on the true value the elite stars bring to a franchise, to the league, and [Dwyane Wade] was asked where he believes the bidding would rise per season? "I'm sure it would get to $50 million," Wade told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday afternoon. He's right, and there's still a compelling case that it wouldn't properly compensate what a Kobe Bryant, a LeBron James, even means far beyond his own team. Privately, Jerry Buss has told people that Bryant -- who will make a league-high $25 million this season under his current contract terms -- is worth perhaps $70 million a year to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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They ain't worth $h|t if they don't have a league to play in. Actors are useless without a stage, director and supporting cast.
h2opololpunk
Gainesville, FL
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It's even simpler than that. Billionaires are richer the millionaires. Game, set, and match!
Teemon_216
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Not everyone brings in more than they cost, Bros.
I Love LA
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good point
ClevelandGuy
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Greed kills sports.
Home Theater Guy
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Now that's a lot of pennies in someones piggy bank!! And why are we having a lockout again?
SPORTSFan_Future_Ana…
Perry , GA
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This lockout isnt going to last long bc the players arent the brightest ppl in the world.
What is going to happen is that the owners are going to get the players to agree to 3-4 year contracts, some form of lower pay structure to keeping their own players, more rules that will make it harder to go over the flexible salary cap, and the same revenue sharing they get now but they wont install a hard cap.
The owners I think never wanted a hard cap. They just was using it as a bargaining chip.
K.I.G.
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I know, some of us believe some independent magazines like Forbes who claim it's worse than they are saying. You are easily the dumbest person in the history of this site.
cobracommander
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BOOOMMMM POOOWWWW!!!!
K.I.G.
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Exactly. The owners can always count on the jealously of fans. To side with them. While the owners pay their workers minimum wage in the stadiums, and refuse to extend them any benefits. For a lockout they created.
But hey. Blame the players. Makes me feel better about earning 25k this year.
JoeClyde0853
Bowie , MD
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