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Big 3 salary, prize money breakdown: How much will players make in 2022 3-on-3 basketball league?
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Participating in Big 3 competition not only allows professional basketball players to extend their careers, but also gives them a chance to keep earning good money.
The Big 3 features 12 teams playing in 3-on-3 games throughout the summer. The league, which was founded in 2017 by rapper Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, has been able to consistently land talented players in part because it offers solid salaries.
How much can Big 3 players earn? Here are the financial figures.
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Big 3 salary, prize money: How much will players make?
Multiple reports have indicated that Big 3 players earn $10,000 per game, plus additional bonuses based on team performance. That means players can reach $100,000 in a single season.
How many players are in the Big 3?
As of July 2022, there are 62 total players on Big 3 rosters. Most teams carry five players on their rosters, but the 3 Headed Monsters and Enemies each have six.
Big 3 rosters
3 Headed Monsters
Rashard Lewis (captain)
Jonathon Simmons
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Quincy Miller
Kevin Murphy
Jamario Moon
3's Company
Mario Chalmers (captain)
Michael Beasley
Brandon Rush
Julian Wright
Derrick Byars
Aliens
Dusan Bulut (captain)
Karlis Lasmanis
Tomislav Ivosev
Deshawn Stephens
Adam Drexler
Ball Hogs
Leandro Barbosa (captain)
Jodie Meeks
Will McDonald
Stacy Davis IV
Kuran Iverson
Bivouac
Gerald Green (captain)
Corey Brewer
Will Bynum
Jeff Ayres
Garlon Green
Enemies
Nick Young (captain)
Isaiah Austin
Elijah Stewart
Jordan Crawford
Sek Henry
Keith Benson
Ghost Ballers
Ricky Davis (captain)
Mike Taylor
Chris Johnson
Darnell Jackson
Jermaine Taylor
Killer 3's
Franklin Session (captain)
Donte Greene
Josh Powell
K. J. McDaniels
Dominique Johnson
Power
Cuttino Mobley (captain)
Nikoloz Tskitishvili
Royce White
Glen Rice Jr.
T.J. Cline
Tri-State
Jason Richardson (captain)
Justin Dentmon
Larry Sanders
DaJuan Summers
Ray Nixon
Trilogy
James White (captain)
Earl Clark
Amir Johnson
Isaiah Briscoe
David Hawkins
Triplets
Joe Johnson (captain)
Jeremy Pargo
Jannero Pargo
Alonzo Gee
Ryan Hollins
BIG 3 season schedule
Week
Dates
Location
Week 1
June 18-19
Chicago
Week 2
June 25-26
Chicago
Week 3
July 2-3
Dallas
Week 4
July 8-10
Dallas
Week 5
July 17
Dallas
Week 6
July 23-24
Dallas
Week 7
July 30-31
Dallas
Week 8
Aug. 6-7
Dallas
Week 9
Aug. 14 (Playoffs)
Tampa, Fla.
Week 10
Aug. 21 (Championship)
Atlanta
Week 11
Sept. 3-4 (All-Star)
Atlantis, Bahamas
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BIG3 Basketball Salaries: How Much Money Do Players Make?
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The BIG3 basketball league was created in 2017 and has continually grown in popularity heading into year No. 3. It’s become wildly apparent that the league, which was founded by rapper/actor Ice Cube, is doing something right, as many new sports leagues fail to see growth after their inception. But the BIG3 has done things a bit differently, and part of it stems from the fact that the players are paid well for being a part of the league.
The BIG3, which is made up primarily of former NBA or international professional players, has a pay structure which offers a bit of a moving scale, but even the guaranteed money revealed from the 2018 season was noteworthy. As SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell reported, players in the league received $10,000 per game last season. Assuming that number remains the same, it equates to $90,000 in 2019 over the span of nine weeks.
It’s also worth pointing out that the above number does not include playoff games or any additional bonuses. No specific amount has been revealed for the pay players receive if their teams make the playoffs, although there are bonuses. The weekly salary is also not the only way players will have a chance to make money throughout the year.
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BIG3 Salaries: Revenue Share & Contracts
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The projection on weekly game checks of roughly $100,000 or more including the playoffs was the same number revealed near the end of the 2018 BIG3 season by Def Pen’s Esfandiar Baraheni. They cited the added financial security that this league offers to former NBA players while allowing them to continue playing the game they love.
Beyond just their salary, Baraheni points out that the players also receive bonuses based on the team’s performance. Even going one step further, Ice Cube and the BIG3 have made sure to take care of their players by reportedly getting them in on the revenue the league itself draws in.
Per SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell, players not only get their weekly paycheck (which comes after every game) but also a share of more than half of all league revenue. It is worth noting that all of these figures came prior to the 2019 season, so there’s a chance the salary structure and revenue share could have changed or been tweaked a bit.
The players receiving a piece of league revenue adds to the appeal for all parties to continue growing the brand and increasing interest throughout the year.
BIG3 Teams up With CBS After Year 2 Growth
As hard as it is for new sports leagues to get off the ground, it’s even tougher for them to grow after the first year. When a new league, especially with former professional players comes together, the interest right out of the gate will likely be there. But what’s been so impressive about the BIG3 is their growth from year one to year two.
As Maury Brown of Forbes.com reported, the league averaged 10,756 in attendance during the 2017 inaugural season. That number jumped 25 percent to 13,484 (revealed in August of 2018), while the story also notes that the BIG3 drew in north of 16,300 people in the opening weeks of the 2018 season.
The television interest growing has certainly helped the BIG3 and this led to the league announcing that their official broadcast partner in 2019 would be CBS and the CBS Sports Network. Ice Cube released a statement on the move, as CBS Sports’ Kevin Skiver revealed.
Since day 1, BIG3 has always been about hard-nosed, fierce competition. Now we’re ramping it up with more teams, younger players, and a shiny new TV deal with CBS Sports,” Ice Cube said in a statement released Thursday. “Our first two years were about showing that our vision was credible. This year is about taking the game to a whole new level. This is a big deal.
Along with the new television deal to show BIG3 games on CBS networks, the league also signed a three-year deal with Adidas, per PRNewsWire.com. This deal includes BIG3 sneaker, clothing and equipment lines.
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How much do NBA stars earn? Salary rating-2019 - Blogg on the floor - Blogs
We count other people's millions.
Many people know that the NBA has a salary cap. It is set at $109.14 million for the 2019/20 season.
But not everyone knows that the salary cap is directly tied to the league's income. And with it - the salaries of all players. Basketball players make millions of dollars because the NBA makes billions of dollars.
8.2 billion, to be exact - that's how much the NBA expects to receive in the coming season in the form of "Basketball-related income" (BRI, basketball-related income). This BRI includes only $400-500 million converted from yuan, so don't worry: even a complete break in relations with China won't take more than five or six percent off the BRI.
Under the 2017 Collective Agreement between the league and the players union, 50%* of BRI goes to players in the form of salaries.
* - actually not, but in order not to load the text with nuances, I will explain them in the comments.
There are 510 jobs in the league - each of the 30 teams can apply for 17 people.
51 NBA players - exactly 10% - will receive at least $20 million next season **.
** - and again I suggest going to the comments for those who want abstruseness.
The “Gini coefficient” and other indicators of financial inequality in the NBA as in a single economy look better than the global ones: if in the real world the richest 10% own 75-85% of all wealth (in the USA - 70-75% according to various estimates ), then in the NBA, the top 10% earn only 35% of all salaries.
But even this 35% is more than one and a half billion dollars. Or, in other words, 1,655 NBA rookie minimum contracts.
Let's look at how this one and a half billion is distributed. For a round number, we will limit ourselves to the top 50 earning more than 20 million; The 51st player in the ranking with a salary of exactly 20 million is Indiana guard Malcolm Brogdon. If you go to the basketball section less than once a week, then most likely you don’t even know who it is. And he earns more than Aguero, James, Neuer or any Serie A player except Cristiano.
Who is not in this part of the rating? For example, Philadelphia's rising star Ben Simmons, who signed a five-year, $170 million contract this summer that won't take effect until a year later, is now playing on a "modest" $8 million rookie salary.
For the same reason, Utah leader Donovan Mitchell, Dallas' delightful Luka Doncic, or intimidating rookie Zion Williamson are not yet on the NBA's Most Valuable Players list. All of them still earn a fixed salary (depending on the number under which the player was taken in the draft), for which they need to play 4 seasons before claiming a luxurious life.
Who is in this part of the rating? Giannis. The current NBA MVP - and the future, according to some forecasts, too.
Greek-Frick did not make the top 40 for a number of reasons, the main of which is that the NBA does not revise existing contracts (with some exceptions that are so rare that they do not even deserve an asterisk and a footnote in the commentary). Antetokounmpo signed his contract back in 2016, by that time the Greek had never played in the All-Star Game, averaging 17 points and playing as the main point guard of the very weak Bucks (49losses in a season).
And Giannis, not so long ago a beggar teenager who sold souvenirs on the streets of Athens and ran in patched sneakers, was so grateful that Milwaukee believed in him that he did not insist on either a maximum contract or even a player option in the last year contract. He was told that he would receive $100 million, and he was stunned by this amount - and it does not matter that at the same time as him, Stephen Adams also signed for exactly the same contract, whom Oklahoma renewed only in a panic from losing Durant.
All in all, Antetokounmpo did great humanly but naively economically three years ago: Giannis has already lost $33 million by waiving his maximum wage and has also pushed back his possible free agency entry from 2020 to 2021.
That's why next year he will be so low in the rankings again. But then - hello to the biggest contract in the history of the NBA.
There are now only 32 people in the NBA with maximum contracts of (this number does not include DeRozan, whose salary was maximum only in the first two years of the contract, Horford and Love, who played at maximum levels a year ago, Vucevic, and Millsap and Middleton from the next group).
At the same time, almost everyone has different salaries.
How did it happen?
To answer this question, needs to understand how maximum contracts are formed .
Maximum contracts come in three levels depending on the player's experience:
up to 6 league seasons - 25% of ceiling;
7-9 seasons - 30%;
and more 10 - 35%
A player can jump up one category by becoming MVP, NBA Defensive Player of the Year or making the All-Star Team of the Season. At the same time, all these 25, 30 and 35% form only the salary in the first season. For example, now 25% of the ceiling is the salary of Russell, Porzingis, Booker, Towns. The first two signed a contract this summer, and the last two lasted a year ago, just their agreements implied entry into force in 2019-m.
And then everything changes: Russell, who signed a contract with a new team, Golden State after Brooklyn, will have an annual increase of 5%. Towns, who lasted with Minnesota, has 8%. And next year their salaries will be different.
Other players signed maximum wages in other years when there was a different salary cap. Anthony Davis received 25% of the ceiling in 2016 (he could have received 30%, but he got injured in the key season 15/16 and did not make the team of the season). Then, when he moved to the Lakers, he voluntarily forfeited a trading bonus so the Los Angelesers could sign a third star this summer.
Voiceover: They couldn't.
So it turned out that Davis and three other maximum speeds in 2016 are not included in the top 30, since they are slightly behind the maximum contracts concluded later, in 2017-2019 - the growth rate of the ceiling and, consequently, the new maximum speeds were higher than the increase in their contracts .
Six people signed a new contract this year with a starting salary of 30% of the ceiling. And they are all different:
The strangest one is with Kyrie Irving: 1 million allocated to 8 bonuses, for which he needs to play in 70 games, hit 88.5% of free throws in a season, lose the ball no more than 2.4 times per game and so on. He did not achieve all this a year ago, and bonuses are not yet taken into account in his salary.
Tobias Harris will receive the maximum in the first year of his contract only, and will receive a total of 10 million less in the remaining seasons.
Clay Thompson signed up for 5 years.
Kemba Walker and Jimmy Butler - for 4 years, the only difference is a possible trading bonus in Kemba's contract.
Kawhi signed up for 3. And the third year is a player option, so he should be a free agent again in 2021.
Yes, it's strange to see Kawhi Leonard outside the top 10 - but he chose this path himself (as the last NBA finals showed - he did the right thing). If the forward did not change teams, but remained in San Antonio, then this season his salary would be the same as that of Harden or Durant. But he has a different financial mechanism turned on: better conditions for winning the championship + a large market for new advertising contracts = the opportunity to get much more than the extra 5-6 million a year in the club salary.
Did you really think there was no calculator built into Kawhi's operating system?
P.S. Interestingly, in the top 20 - only Americans, this has not happened since the implementation of the salary cap in 1984! A new generation of super-foreigners, constrained by the financial rules of the NBA, has not yet reached the old American star guard.
King James always wants to be at the top of the list. But he was the most expensive NBA player only once : in the 2016/17 season. Before that, the Miami discount to team up with Wade and Bosch, the move back to Cleveland on a one-year contract, the technical impossibility of reaching Kobe's maximum salary. And then Curry, who has been playing in one club all his career, took the lead - after all, the NBA salary rules reward those stars who do not change clubs: they get a slightly higher maximum salary, a little longer, a little earlier.
But LeBron was always pissed off about the concept of a maximum salary. Why should workers be capped by some sort of salary cap? Why can't he earn in the NBA as much as she earns on him? According to various statistical metrics, the benefit of LeBron in his peak years should have been paid by a contract of 70-80 million a year 2003, with a completely different salary cap.
Even now, LeBron James's salary would be much more than 37.4 million if there were no artificial restrictions in the NBA. Reference point? Let's take Cristiano Ronaldo. Similar age, status, achievements, popularity, the situation with the transition to another club, even advertising contracts they have about the same level of income. Ronaldo earns about 64 million a year from Juventus before taxes; LeBron, it turns out, almost half as much.
Nevertheless, LeBron will still be the first - in terms of total career earnings . In the upcoming season, he (307 million) will overtake Shaquille (286 million) and will be second only to Kobe Bryant (323 million) and Kevin Garnett (334 million), whom he will overtake in 2021. LeBron will earn almost $400 million in the NBA by the end of his career - and even more from advertising contracts. The dream of becoming a billionaire is getting closer.
Fans often demand strict logic in issuing maximum contracts. That they should only be given to MVPs or champions, that clubs shouldn't give big contracts to non-All-Star players, that only five/two/ten people/one LeBron/all 510 NBA players are eligible for the top salary.
Actually there is no logic.
The maximum contract, even the largest possible one (35% of the ceiling), can be obtained for real services to the club, like Harden - and still there will be people who consider his salary too high.
You can - for previous achievements. Kevin Durant will make over $38 million in a season without a game for Brooklyn due to a Achilles tear, but the Nets believe he can return to his former superstar level and add championship experience to the team.
Or you can - for vague promises to become a top player in the NBA, as was the case with John Wall. He sparkled in the second half of the 2016/17 season and made it to the NBA's third All-Star Five, which qualified him for a Supermax contract extension. And "Washington" then gave him this 170 million extension for 4 years, which is effective now.
Since signing, Wall has never played more than 50% of his season and, like Durant, will miss the 2019 season/20 whole. But in 2017, he was a rising star, soon to be the best defenseman in the conference, and was priced into a super max contract...
Or just the Washingtons. A team that hasn't played in an Eastern final for 40 years.
Westbrook and Paul are united not only by the fact that they were traded for each other in July, but also that since 2018 they have an identical salary. They were extended through different mechanisms, but came to the same numbers (although Westbrook has a contract for a year longer).
Why are their salaries higher than the Durant-Harden Wall trio? Again, remember that the maximum salary depends on the ceiling, which grows unevenly . The annual salary increase is 8%, while the salary cap has increased by only 7.14% in the last year.
Contracts in the NBA, as already mentioned, are not reviewed - neither as a result of negotiations between the parties, nor by any automatic rules, so in a year Westbrook and Paul are entitled to 41 million, in two - 44 million each. And this figure will not change, even if all countries, including the United States, follow the example of China, turn their backs on the NBA, and the salary cap falls from 109million dollars to 109 million cents.
Next year, Durant, Harden, Wall, Paul and Westbrook will break the $40 million salary bar with their supermaxes. But they won't be the first.
Steph Curry won his first MVP and first title, being fourth in salary on his team, and 53rd in the league behind JaVale McGee, Larry Sanders and Andrea Bargnani.
Second MVP - fifth salary with the Warriors and 61st in the NBA, behind Amir Johnson, Demarre Carroll and Brandon Knight.
Second title - Curry is the 82nd highest paid in the NBA, and it's too long to list role players earning more. At the time, Curry's salary of $12 million was closer to the minimum (1.3 million) than the maximum (26.5 million).
Just before the third title, Stef was given the contract he deserved. The largest in history at that time - 201.2 million dollars.
The third season of this contract breaks the historic mark of $40 million. However, taking into account inflation, this is not a record, but only the third most expensive indicator.
Jordan has the first two, of course. His 30 million in 96/97 would be $49 million in today's dollars, and his 33 million in 97/98 would be $54 million.
more than the entire salary cap), we may never see again.
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The NBA pays more than football, but the Premier League earns more and competes for subscribers wage market, TV rights and the popularity of the major leagues.
Highlights:
• Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus pay the most;
• The NBA has the highest average salary per league, the Premier League is not even in the top three, and the second is the Indian Super League in cricket;
• Football clubs dominate social media following, Manchester United second only to Spaniards;
• The Premier League is second only to the NFL in terms of TV rights, but receives 48% from abroad;
• NFL with highest attendance, Bundesliga and Premier League in top three;
Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus with the highest salaries, but overall dominated by the NBA
Turintsy jumped into the top three from last year's ninth place. Barça on average pays a first-team player €10m a year, Madrid a little over ninem, Juventus a little over eightm. At the same time, Barça and Real Madrid are not at the top for the first time.
There are only 21 football clubs in the top 100 (and in the ranking of 350 clubs from the top leagues in the most popular sports), only 11 in the top 50 (PSG - 12th, Man City - 13th, Bayern - 22nd, Manchester United - 33rd, Atlético - 39th, Liverpool - 41st, Arsenal - 44th, Chelsea - 45th -e). At the same time, the worst club in the NBA - the New York Knicks (both in terms of salary and in general) pays its players on average more than, for example, Atlético and Liverpool.
Indian cricket clubs are worth mentioning (details below) - there are only eight of them, they fit in the gap between 47th and 58th places. All other leagues are scattered.
NBA highest salaries in the world, second (surprisingly) Indian Super League cricket, Premier League not even in the top three the average in that it more objectively reflects the situation: half receive a salary below this figure, half - above) - 3.
7 million euros.
The second league in the world in terms of average salary is the Indian Cricket Super League. Yes, in India, the superstars of a sport that is popular only in the former British colonies and the UK itself, get more top football stars. The average salary here is half as much - a little less than 5 million euros per year, there is no data on the median. In third place is Major League Baseball, with baseball making about $3.8 million a year, a median four times lower.
At the same time, you need to understand that the NBA and the Indian Super League show annual growth (10-12%), but MLB is slowly slowing down - minus 6% on average. The first football representative is already approaching baseball - the Premier League, the richest football league. Here, on average, they earn about 3.7 million euros, the median salary is about 2.5 million euros per year.
The NFL follows the Premier League (a little less than 3 million euros per year - the average salary, about a million - the median), then - the NHL (about 2. 5 million euros - the average, 1.8 million - the median). And only behind them are the rest of the football leagues - La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. Everywhere, average and median salaries are noticeably lower than in the Premier League. At the same time, American leagues show stable growth in this indicator, with the exception of Major League Baseball. European football leagues are also growing, but not as fast.
Young goalkeepers are paid much more in Italy, older strikers in Spain
It is obvious that the value of a football player is made up of various factors, not counting skills: at least his position and age, as well as the league in which he plays. It is clear that the Premier League clubs pay the most - an average of 3.7 million euros per player. One and a half times less in Spain, two times less in Italy and Germany, three times less in France. At the same time, the higher the player acts on the field - from goalkeepers to attackers - the more expensive he is.
Interestingly, the data also varies by position: experienced strikers over 30 are much more expensive than their younger competitors. In Spain, the average salary of an older striker is under 7 million euros a year, a real phenomenon, which, however, can be explained by the presence of Leo Messi in Barcelona. And in Italy, for example, the highest average salary for young goalkeepers (under 23) is more than a million euros per year. For sure, Gianluigi Donnarumma (and his agent Mino Raiola) should be thanked to a greater extent for this.
Otherwise, everything is stable: the British pay the most, the French the least, and between them come the Spaniards, Italians and Germans.
Football is the most popular: La Liga and the Premier League are tied for first place in terms of subscribers and receive the most from foreign TV rights
The main criterion for popularity is the number of subscribers in the three main social networks of the world: facebook, instagram and twitter. Football unconditionally dominates here: Premier League and La Liga clubs, especially the top 5 in England and the top 3 in Spain, are far ahead of their competitors. At the same time, Barca alone is able to block almost all subscribers of MLB teams.
There are 15 football clubs in the top 20 clubs in the world by subscribers: 6 from England, 3 each from Spain and Italy, 2 from Germany and 1 from France. Moreover, the top 10 is completely occupied by soccer. The top ten includes four NBA clubs and one Indian cricket club.
At the same time, in total, La Liga and the Premier League are very close to each other, but Spain, due to the unrealistic numbers of Real Madrid and Barca, is slightly ahead - about 500 million subscribers per league. Approximately 325 million for the NBA, NFL and Serie A just below and next to each other, while the Bundesliga shares its position with Major League Baseball, the Indian Super League and League 1.
The money that leagues receive from selling television rights abroad can also speak of popularity. In this regard, England dominates: it has almost 50% - this is income from the sale of television rights abroad (47.5%). Only three percent less in Spain, but the Spaniards lose heavily in the total cost of TV rights. The Premier League is second only to the NFL (€4 billion) in terms of total rights fees among the top leagues (€3.5bn), but the NFL's share of overseas TV rights is less than three percent! American football is almost never watched outside of the United States.
The NFL has the highest average attendance of 67,000 people, but you need to understand that the regular season of the major league of American football is much smaller and shorter than in European football, and besides, the level of all teams here is approximately the same. The second most visited in the world is the Bundesliga (a little over 43 thousand people). In the top three, the Premier League (38,000), the Australian Football League (35,000) and the Japanese National Baseball League (31,000) rounded out the top five. What is funny, the Japanese are ahead of MLB, albeit just a little bit.
NBA and NHL in this rating lose to all major competitors (average attendance of 17 thousand people each), but this has an objective feature: closed arenas will in any case be much smaller than open ones.
Premier League: Manchester City and Man United top wages, Tottenham out of top 6, Sheffield last the nearest pursuer, a neighbor in the city, a whole million. There are no more such gaps between teams close in the table.
Liverpool, which is tearing apart the Premier League, is only third - the average salary is a little over six million, then Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton (!) And only then Tottenham and Leicester . In these clubs, the salary is more than four million on average, the rest are lower. The absolute worst in the Premier League is Sheffield, which at the start of the season is trying to wedge itself into the fight for European competition. This is the only team whose average salary is less than a million euros per year.
As for popularity, everything is almost comparable to the budget. The most followed club by social media following is Man United, with a total of 126 million followers, by far the best in England. Next comes Chelsea (81 million), followed by Liverpool, Arsenal (69 million each).million) and Man City (61 million). Of the rest, Tottenham (22 million) and Leicester (11 million) stand out a little, the rest in total will not have subscribers even to Man City.
La Liga: here as usual. There is Barcelona and Real Madrid - and all the other
Barça and Real Madrid - the first and second sports clubs in the world in terms of salary, so there is no chance here. Atlético's payroll is one and a half times less - just a little less than 6.5 million euros per year. The rest of the Spanish clubs did not even stand close - only the remaining eight teams have an average salary of more than a million, nine teams have less than a million, and Osasuna and Valladolid on average pay less than five hundred thousand. If we discard Atlético, then the average salary in Real Madrid and Barcelona together is higher than in 17 La Liga clubs in total.
The most popular clubs are broadly in line with the average salary - Real Madrid has 223m followers, Barcelona has 213m. These are by far the most popular sports clubs in the world. 27 million - from Atletico, the remaining 17 clubs in total will not even collect Atletico subscribers. Interestingly, Madrid and Barca have a much higher share of followers on Instagram than the British.
Serie A: Juventus are in the lead, but the situation is tighter than in Spain
The situation is similar in Italy, but here on average everything looks closer. The Italians lose only by the fact that there is only Juventus among the super giants, this allows La Liga to get ahead of the competitor in terms of average wages. Plus, in Italy there is no spacer between the second tier and the tops - the gap is almost four times. In all other respects, plus or minus the same, from the surprising - the second in salary Roma (almost 4.5 million euros per year), Inter and Napoli are nearby, Milan are also nearby, Lazio is slightly crosses the threshold of 2 million euros per year. All others are smaller. But in Italy, the average level of teams is still closer - more than a million a year, on average, 14 clubs pay, no one pays less than five hundred thousand.
The number of subscribers in social networks in general corresponds to the ranking in terms of average salaries - Juventus has twice as many fans as the second team (80 million versus 38). But the second here is Milan - despite the Rossoneri's current plight, the more successful Inter have 15 million fewer subscribers. Roma are also in the big four, but then there is a sharp dip, only Napoli has more than four million (7.9).
Bundesliga: Bayern is the leader, Borussia is the best among equals
Germany also has its own dominator, and it is so obvious that you don't even have to name it. But you have to: Bayern pay 7.5 million euros a year - twice as much as Borussia Dortmund. In the top three in terms of salaries, Bayer, Leipzig and Wolfsburg unexpectedly also step out of two million, but then everything is already more modest. At the same time, only one club pays less than 500 thousand euros per year on average - Paderborn. Five more teams pay less than a million (but in the Bundesliga they are generally 2 less than in the other top leagues, so in general everything is comparable).
The same applies to social media followers. Here, however, the share of Bayern is 60% of all subscribers of the league clubs (73 million). There is also Borussia, which has about three times fewer fans (27 million), and then the abyss.
France: PSG and no one
The average salary of Parisians is 34% of the average salary for the entire league - almost 8 million euros per year. Monaco, Lyon, Marseille and Lille pay more than a million, everyone else pays less, and eight clubs at once pay less than five hundred thousand.
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3. It’s become wildly apparent that the league, which was founded by rapper/actor Ice Cube, is doing something right, as many new sports leagues fail to see growth after their inception. But the BIG3 has done things a bit differently, and part of it stems from the fact that the players are paid well for being a part of the league.
The weekly salary is also not the only way players will have a chance to make money throughout the year.
It is worth noting that all of these figures came prior to the 2019 season, so there’s a chance the salary structure and revenue share could have changed or been tweaked a bit.
And he earns more than Aguero, James, Neuer or any Serie A player except Cristiano. 
Antetokounmpo signed his contract back in 2016, by that time the Greek had never played in the All-Star Game, averaging 17 points and playing as the main point guard of the very weak Bucks (49losses in a season). 
But then - hello to the biggest contract in the history of the NBA. 
For example, now 25% of the ceiling is the salary of Russell, Porzingis, Booker, Towns. The first two signed a contract this summer, and the last two lasted a year ago, just their agreements implied entry into force in 2019-m. 
If the forward did not change teams, but remained in San Antonio, then this season his salary would be the same as that of Harden or Durant. But he has a different financial mechanism turned on: better conditions for winning the championship + a large market for new advertising contracts = the opportunity to get much more than the extra 5-6 million a year in the club salary. 
And then Curry, who has been playing in one club all his career, took the lead - after all, the NBA salary rules reward those stars who do not change clubs: they get a slightly higher maximum salary, a little longer, a little earlier. 
They were extended through different mechanisms, but came to the same numbers (although Westbrook has a contract for a year longer). 
Barça on average pays a first-team player €10m a year, Madrid a little over ninem, Juventus a little over eightm. At the same time, Barça and Real Madrid are not at the top for the first time. 
7 million euros. 
5 million euros - the average, 1.8 million - the median). And only behind them are the rest of the football leagues - La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. Everywhere, average and median salaries are noticeably lower than in the Premier League. At the same time, American leagues show stable growth in this indicator, with the exception of Major League Baseball. European football leagues are also growing, but not as fast. 
In this regard, England dominates: it has almost 50% - this is income from the sale of television rights abroad (47.5%). Only three percent less in Spain, but the Spaniards lose heavily in the total cost of TV rights. The Premier League is second only to the NFL (€4 billion) in terms of total rights fees among the top leagues (€3.5bn), but the NFL's share of overseas TV rights is less than three percent! American football is almost never watched outside of the United States. 
What is funny, the Japanese are ahead of MLB, albeit just a little bit. 
If we discard Atlético, then the average salary in Real Madrid and Barcelona together is higher than in 17 La Liga clubs in total. 
In all other respects, plus or minus the same, from the surprising - the second in salary Roma (almost 4.5 million euros per year), Inter and Napoli are nearby, Milan are also nearby, Lazio is slightly crosses the threshold of 2 million euros per year. All others are smaller. But in Italy, the average level of teams is still closer - more than a million a year, on average, 14 clubs pay, no one pays less than five hundred thousand. 
But you have to: Bayern pay 7.5 million euros a year - twice as much as Borussia Dortmund. In the top three in terms of salaries, Bayer, Leipzig and Wolfsburg unexpectedly also step out of two million, but then everything is already more modest. At the same time, only one club pays less than 500 thousand euros per year on average - Paderborn. Five more teams pay less than a million (but in the Bundesliga they are generally 2 less than in the other top leagues, so in general everything is comparable). 
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