Salaries Of Professional Athletes

How would you like to be paid twenty-three million dollars a year ? It is conspicuous to state that every person would more than love it. This number is only one of the many outrageous wages athletes are being paid today. True, not all twenty-three million dollars proceeds directly to the athlete because of Uncle Sam. Still these figures are too farthest regardless of the sport, baseball, football or basketball. The athletes here in the United States are without a question the utmost on earth. The only difficulty is so are their wages. Although the athletes pay shows the vastness of their individual proficiency, the amount earned per year is way after reason. Due to these large wages being paid in especially in the games of basketball, the games greatness is being lost. (Herrmann, 202)

One example of the extreme pay an athlete can achieve is shown by an athlete entitled Michael Jordan. This basketball contestant is being paid thirty million dollars for the 96 - 97 season. Last year for the time of the year of 95 - 96, Jordan was only being paid 3.5 million. While being paid this wages, Jordan barely ever deplored too much even though the allowance Jordan was being paid was very reduced for the NBA. During this time of the year Jordan never made any kind of statement about quitting or even leaving for another group to make the cash he may deserve. Other players such as Shaq (Shaquille O'neil), and Reggie Miller, and even partner Dennis Rodman have been renowned to say things like this. The only difference between Jordan and the other athletes is that Jordan appears to have a large devotion in the direction of his team and the other players do not have the same commitment or devotion. The circumstances emerge that Jordan might really play for the meagre love of the game, while other ones only play for the love of money. Regardless of the motivation for playing the sport, a salary of 30 million dollars is outrageous. (Barton, 19)

If you were to shatter down this thirty million dollars into distinct classes such as how much money Jordan earns per game, the factual outrageousness will appear. For instance over an eighty-two game time of the year Jordan will be paid $365,854 a game. Thead covering is more than any middle and even most upper class people make in one year. In one single game, it is hard to believe that one man could make more than one individual for a year. Believe it or not though, most athletes do.

As the years proceed on athletes hold asking for higher salarys. With this want of higher and higher wages, the sports follower begins to believe that the only cause the athletes are playing is for the love of cash, not for the love of the game in which they compete. These expert athlete's are playing for millions upon millions a year, and it is continually growing. So where ...