The minimum salary for a first-year player this season is a little under $1.2MM. Contrast that with Victor Wembanyama, whose uniform can fetch more than half that amount.
A jersey worn by the Spurs’ big man in his NBA debut just sold at the Sotheby’s for $762K, BasketballNews.com tweets. It’s the highest amount ever paid for a rookie jersey.
We have more from around the basketball world:
- Amazon is bidding for an NBA rights package and the company isn’t just looking for regular season games. Amazon Global Head of Sports Jay Marine told John Ourand and Andrew Marchand in a podcast (hat tip to RealGM) that the company would want to add playoff games to its Prime Video service beginning in 2025. Amazon Prime currently holds right for most Thursday NFL games.
- Former NBA guard Naz Mitrou-Long has signed with Greece’s Olympiacos, according to a team press release. Mitrou-Long appeared in 20 NBA games, most recently with Indiana during the 2019/20 season.
- The underrated impact of veteran NBA players who see little action but provide sage advice and leadership on the bench and in the locker room is detailed by The Athletic’s John Hollinger.
Is the last paragraph basically an ode to Haslem?
Veterans are important but everyone wants 15 players jacking up threes. This is basketball at its worst
After the Indy Atlanta game last night, AND HOW. 6.4 points per minute they scored.
Most teams are scoring 57 to 62 a quarter.
I can draw only one conclusion when a sports jersey is sold for more than most people make in a lifetime. There are some people in this world who have more money than sense, and that money would be so useful at for example feeding the poor, housing the homeless, or more pedestrian things like building bridges. Wealth inequality is at an all time high in modern times.
On that note, here’s hoping that Amazon does not lock up the NBA playoffs behind an annual subscription from a company that is documented to mistreat its workers on a daily basis, and treats customers like a commodity. Why not just stream everything through League Pass and cut out the internet monopolist middlemen?
Yes I am feeling a bit socialist today, my bank has me angry. 8))
Meh, it happens. Just don’t go full commie on us. Communism is just socialist-flavored fascism. Goulash, not gulags xD