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Topic	Do NBA players really need a union? They make 5.15 million a year on average.
Monopoman 07/15/18 4:27:04 PM #20:	TheOrangeMisfit posted... I mean I guess in theory. If you think about it, they are laughably replaceable. Lebron James has a high school degree and that's it, if he never made it to the NBA, he'd be working at Popeye's probably. Idiots who like sports will watch college and even high school level to entertain their minimal minds, so it's not like professional is the only way for them to get their fix. I'm sure there would be people who would play in the NBA for minimum wage if given the chance. Yeah Joe Blow who lives like 2 blocks down the street has the tools to play basketball as well as LBJ. Part of the reason these players get paid so much to play is that they are hard to find, if everyone could play basketball like LBJ then obviously the skill would be far less impressive. It's the same thought process of actors, musicians etc... they get large chunks of money because in most cases their work generates large chunks of money and you can't just replace them. If you are a record label and you have Adele as one of your artists if she loses the ability to sing you can't just search around and find another Adele. You can find cheap imitations but they are just that cheap imitations. Not to mention when talking about basketball players the best ones are coveted by multiple teams so even if one team thinks "LBJ is overpaid" there are 20 other teams that would happily pay him that money or more. --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Elaina, Senbon Miku, Tsovinar <cite>Monopoman posted [p:905128282] in Do NBA pla... [t:76804478]...</cite> <quote><cite>TheOrangeMisfit posted...</cite> <quote>I mean I guess in theory. If you think about it, they are laughably replaceable. Lebron James has a high school degree and that's it, if he never made it to the NBA, he'd be working at Popeye's probably. Idiots who like sports will watch college and even high school level to entertain their minimal minds, so it's not like professional is the only way for them to get their fix. I'm sure there would be people who would play in the NBA for minimum wage if given the chance.</quote> Yeah Joe Blow who lives like 2 blocks down the street has the tools to play basketball as well as LBJ. Part of the reason these players get paid so much to play is that they are hard to find, if everyone could play basketball like LBJ then obviously the skill would be far less impressive. It's the same thought process of actors, musicians etc... they get large chunks of money because in most cases their work generates large chunks of money and you can't just replace them. If you are a record label and you have Adele as one of your artists if she loses the ability to sing you can't just search around and find another Adele. You can find cheap imitations but they are just that cheap imitations. Not to mention when talking about basketball players the best ones are coveted by multiple teams so even if one team thinks "LBJ is overpaid" there are 20 other teams that would happily pay him that money or more. --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Elaina, Senbon Miku, Tsovinar</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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