Are Professional Sports Players making too much money?
347739
yes they are making too much money.  and the proof of this is that the average family can hardly afford to be a fan anymore because ticket prices are priced really high so they owners can pay the players.
84871
I haven't followed the NBA for many years for this very reason.\n\nWhile all professional sports seem to have their share of athletes who seem to only care about their statistics and how that translates into a paycheck, there seems to be a lot more of it in the NBA.
680347
Yes, they are overpaid...BUT, who pays these guys?  The owners.  Why do they pay them so high?  Because they can!  The owners, especially in Baseball because there is no salary cap, make so much money from the revenue they get from T.V deals, marketing, ticket sales, parking, etc. etc.  Yes it's not fair that military, police, teachers, are not even in a baseball players galaxy in compensation, but the owners pay them.  If your boss was a multi-multi billionaire at your company, and you were at the top level of your craft, wouldn't you think you would be compensated well.  As long as WE THE FAN continue to go to the games and pay enormous prices for everything, that money that we earn, that we in turn give to these teams, will go to the owners checkbooks, which will be deposited into players bank accounts.  It's unfair to us, but that's the world we live in when in comes to professional sports.
611584
Aah let me guess; "SMART"people answered these questions, well let me set the record straight  I think some athletes are worth the money that they receive because they had to work hard to become PROFESSIONAL athletes, and a major fact is that most of them put their own bodies on the line just for the entertainment of fans. So they deserve every penny.
757892
YES!! Not just football either. professional athletes get paid an obscene amt of money...oh, are they saving lives and changing the world?  Doctors earn their salaries.  Nurses,policemen, and all civil employees need a bump up.  No family of an American soldier should have to be on PUBLIC ASSISTANCE in order to care for their families.  Something is egregiously off center here.\n\nlike I said...obscene.
622706
When you make all that money just to play a game, and millions of people watch sports, before long you get to thinking they are just there to see you play. You get the big head, and your ego goes crazy. Same thing that happens with those overpaid actors in Hellywood. It's all ego and sinfull pride.
1131964
Entertainment as not real value, some people are will pay a lot of money for stuff that other will hate so entertainers will make money base on people attendance. As long as basket ball will be follow and love as much as it is players salaries will keep increasing coz those who pay them get their money back somehow, it is business so don't forget if owner start losing money they will stop paying if they keep making it they will make sure that the spent more to gain more, don't know if you rae following but the whole point is don't debate on it, either boycott or enjoy the game that it is!
511943
For playing or watching? You can't just pay to play with the pros if your asking that.  If you mean how much to watch if depends where, major or not, whose playing.  If you have all of those things it will be alot more than if it is a none major and no big names are playing.
845035
i think they get paid way too much. i do the exact same stuff just for fun and i'm not a multi millionaire. getting paid millions of dollars to hit a ball with a stick basically...
79328
Well at least it makes you uncapitalistic. Follow this line of logic. Wherever you have a need (in this case entertainment) you have people willing to spend money. So you hire people to support this need (athletes) and pay them a percentage. The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business. It's only fair that these athletes take their percentage.\nI think you are way over generalizing athletes. While there are certainly selfish immature players. There are also classy, generous, respectable athletes as well, It's just that the more immature players tend to stay in the public eye do to their hijinks.\nNow the olympics are a complete abomination. They secure television contracts, charge unGodly prices for seats, yet they don't even pay the participants that make the olympics a reality. How is that fair? \nIt's not wrong to be rich. To make the money you earned. It's wrong to be an child and a thug. But these two things aren't really even related.
105740
Before we discuss that you have to take into consideration that teams make lots of money due to tickets, broadcasting payments and advertisements …etc, the more the money inflow the more they pay on players’ wages. The players playing in a professional team dedicate all their time to the team so its their only job, and players playing in good teams are so unique and exceptionally good that they are paid lots of money, the better and more unique the player the more they are paid, its like any other job, the better you are the more you are paid, the stronger the firm you work in the more you are paid. You can’t just find the skills of professional players anywhere, therefore teams need to compete to secure the services of the good players and the only way they can compete is by using money
629484
i agree with you, smoke and star29. those players are getting payed millions, but they should be able to say whats on their minds without getting fined for it. its only their opinion and even though i dont think they should get paid as much as they do, i still think they should be able to voice their opinions without getting in trouble for it. i know the nba has rules and stuff about this, but they should be able to voice their opinion shouldn't they?
1138101
Entertainers in general are overpaid in this country. Think about it: What's more important? Educating the young minds of America, or kicking a field goal? Who gets paid millions of dollars more?
666470
Let's face it..nobody's getting rich playing cricket now are they? Your question could apply to footballers, golfers, tennis players, etc. etc. Outstanding athletes in any sport are a marketing tool for sporting goods companies to sell more stuff, and I think if an athlete has the kind of talent it takes to catch the eye of these companies then they should be compensated for it.
692945
people spend more than 60% of their income on entertainment. we live for that stuff. since sports players "entertain" fans, they open new avenues like other endorsements that could make the company they work for very profitable. often, the people that make a real difference like stay at home moms and teachers are overlooked and seen as "ordinary".
369032
The top players earn enough money these days to not have to work when they retire.  The less well paid players will often go into management or the media and some will re-educate themselves towards the end of their career.
680044
Because someone messed-up and offered a player good money therefore ever one wanted more. ( Greed )\n\n\nOLD DAYS\nBecause back than 100,000 was good money or less.\nVery few made that so they stayed for less \nbecause the love of the game that's why.\nMoney has pushed the respect of the game to different \nlevels like i said its greed. But getting run over \nby a man 300 plus pounds running 4.8 speed over a 1,000 times a year worth it if you look at it that way