With the salary cap having gone up this year and expected to continue to rise in the future do these players deserve this much money? I will give 2 arguments
With Stephen Curry signing a contract guaranteeing him $40 million a year for the next 5 years, a person starts to wonder whether these players are getting paid too much! As a society should we not make an effort to fund things like science and medicine and so on, rather than forking out millions on individuals who are no doubt exceptional at what they do but at the end of the day are entertainers. Would mankind not be better served if it were to put that much money and resources into making the life of our fellow man better.
At the of the day the NBA, like many other sports is a business and like any business, they are selling something. If people show up at your door buying what you are selling no one is going to judge you for asking a price when the demand rises. These players work very hard for their pay day and are just employees to a massive business. So in the grand scheme, the NBA is just an extremely successful business. No one questions when the employee with the best results gets a pay rise, so why should it be any different for a sportsman
I am a very big fan of basketball and I do believe these players have made a case for themselves to earn what they do. But, I don't feel that it is fair that for instance that a doctor who physically saves lives, or an army serviceman who risks his life, gets paid pennies on the dollar in comparison to what sportsmen get paid to do in essence what they love to do! Humanity should be less concerned with entertaining itself and more concerned with bettering itself but that just how I feel about it.
