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The World's Highest-Paid Athletes

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Biggest take away from this list....
NBA players are significantly overpaid.  Many of which are meh talents, particularly from a historical perspective.
Not hating, good for them getting what they can but some of those salaries are eye opening.


NBA and MLB is where the money is at. Structured that way. Ryan Howard made the list at #51 and doesn't even have a job. Lots of mitigating factors though. Both have long seasons also.


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LinvilleGorge Grand Master

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Where are they coming up with that $23.2M figure for Kalil?

For this season per his contract, he has a $1M base salary, a $2.4M signing bonus, and a $600k roster bonus totaling $4M. Even if you give him credit for the full $12M signing bonus that he received at the time of signing, that's still "only" coming up to $13.6M. 

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35 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Where are they coming up with that $23.2M figure for Kalil?

For this season per his contract, he has a $1M base salary, a $2.4M signing bonus, and a $600k roster bonus totaling $4M. Even if you give him credit for the full $12M signing bonus that he received at the time of signing, that's still "only" coming up to $13.6M. 

Gotta be factoring in the total guaranteed portion of the contract which is somewhere close to $25M but not sure on exact number. Some that ~25M is a conditional guarantee so it wouldn't be the full amount.  So, guaranteed money along with salary and bonus would be close to number they came up with.

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4 minutes ago, shulasmyhero said:

Gotta be factoring in the total guaranteed portion of the contract which is somewhere close to $25M but not sure on exact number. Some that ~25M is a conditional guarantee so it wouldn't be the full amount.  So, guaranteed money along with salary and bonus would be close to number they came up with.

Might be. If that's the case, that's a really poor way to come up with a list of highest paid athletes because it's going to be heavily biased towards guys who just recently signed a new contract.

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1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Where are they coming up with that $23.2M figure for Kalil?

For this season per his contract, he has a $1M base salary, a $2.4M signing bonus, and a $600k roster bonus totaling $4M. Even if you give him credit for the full $12M signing bonus that he received at the time of signing, that's still "only" coming up to $13.6M. 

That's how much they made last year total.  Ibrahimovic is unemployed with a torn ACL in 2017.  He makes nothing.

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1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

That can't be right. Kalil made a shade over $11M last year.

It's salaries plus promo deals and everything else... including income from own run companies for some.  It's a stupid  estimate.

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1 minute ago, ARSEN said:

It's salaries plus promo deals and everything else... including income from own run companies for some.  It's a stupid  estimate.

Not many offensive linemen have much in the way of promotional income. They're figuring in $75k for him on that.

I agree it's a stupid estimate, I'm just struggling to figure out where they came up with that figure for Kalil. I think shulasmyhero probably came up with the best guesstimate for their guesstimate. 

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3 hours ago, shulasmyhero said:

Biggest take away from this list....

NBA players are significantly overpaid.  Many of which are meh talents, particularly from a historical perspective.

Not hating, good for them getting what they can but some of those salaries are eye opening.

Kinda like Stephone Gilmore at #39? Yah NFL guys getting overpaid as well 

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3 hours ago, shulasmyhero said:

Biggest take away from this list....

NBA players are significantly overpaid.  Many of which are meh talents, particularly from a historical perspective.

Not hating, good for them getting what they can but some of those salaries are eye opening.

It's pretty easy to figure out why NBA players make a poo ton of money.

NBA = 13 players x 30 teams = 390  

NFL = 53 players x 32 teams = 1696

NBA = 82 regular season games

NFL = 16 regular season games

Same thing holds true for baseball.

MLB = 40 players x 30 teams = 1200, but... 162 regular season games

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