No, you do that with post docs who are lucky to get $20k.

Of course, curing cancer hasn't worked out all that well.

P.S. There are a handful of perfectly paid guys, having earned on the court a salary within 1 or 2 percent of what they were paid...

CJ Miles
TJ Ford
Kyle Korver
Caron Butler
Darius Songalia
Tayshaun Prince
Malik Allen
Ron Artest
Charlie Bell
Marcus Camby

Close were Iguodala, Nene, Oden, Okur, Wallace (G), and Miller (Andre).

If you don't think any player is worth more than x because it's basketball, then you have to realize that the savings will go directly to the owner.

If an owner agrees to pay a player $20M/year, then it's because the owner thinks the player is worth at least that much. It is entertainment and the players are what makes people pay $50 for a small uncomfortable seat and fork over $10 for a macro brew beer.

They could be juggling, ice skating, telling jokes, singing, throwing a ball through a hoop... it doesn't matter what they're doing out there as long as people want to watch it. And we should know, because we are mega-fans (I would say anybody who regularly posts on a forum is in the top 1% of fans).

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You can never have perfect introspection: because if you could, then you could determine what you were going to do ten seconds from now, and then do something else.

On the other hand, was it still worth it for the team to overpay for them as opposed to losing them to a team that would overpay, and miss the chance to win a championship?

I don't care if we don't do anything big this offseason as long as we do exactly that.

dba, can you email me the spreadsheet for this data please?

Winging it's way through the ether...

Isn't it funny how everyone ignores the group that funds most of the money out of their own pockets (tickets, merchandise, etc), and is the driver for the rest of the money to flow in (TV contracts, endorsements, etc)? These groups seem to think they operate in a vacuum, that whatever they do, the fans will continue to support them. Big, huge, disastrous mistake.