I'm quite a bit older than you. If I limit it to the players I have seen, Kobe falls right around 10ish. Jordan, Johnson, Bird, Irving, Olajuwon, James, Shaq, Duncan
They make $180 million. And that's tiny compared to the interest they make on the education dollars donated to them each year. Or the over $2 billion in tuition they collect each year. Yeah, not a lot of money. Sorry.
No one is arguing it, but is' very small. Take Texas A&M. They get just under $200 million per year from athletics which is the biggest for all the colleges. Their endowment is just under 12 billion dollars. At just 5% interest and that's 3-4 times the amount of money per year. That does...
Take a look at any campus. All those buildings are named for athletes. Oh wait. I misspelled None of.
Take a look at the endowments schools have. Astronomical. Harvard has 36.4 Billion in endowments. Yes, 36.4 Billion. Forget the money they pull in from students and donations that are...
They Orioles have said they want pitching and near ready pitching. When Did any of those minus Maples pitch? Maples is a pitcher who at best will be a journeyman. That's going to be his top end.