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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Official word on the actual cap number is expected this Saturday.
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Shouldn't it be settled by Thursday so that teams know what they're working with going into the Draft?
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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
You look at what the other 3 top leagues pays their stars.
https://howmuch.net/articles/sports-leagues-by-revenue
This is from 2016 but still the NHL is in the same ballpark as the NBA.
Ibaka makes 22 million a season. There are countless guys like this in the NBA who are good but making salary like that.
Hockey stars are realizing they deserve to get paid. Should McDavid be the top paid player in the NHL but be paid half of what a played of Serge Ibaka makes in the NBA?
Doesn't seem right to me. Someone is taking home a nice big piece of the pie and it ain't the players. |
Not only does the NBA have significantly smaller rosters (where a star player's value is much higher than the best NHLer's), but they also have significantly higher revenue.
The NBA gets more money in one year on their current US TV deal than the NHL gets over the entire 10 years of their current deal. The NBA's deal pays $24 billion over 9 years, or $2.67 billion per year. The NHL's deal pays $2 billion over 10 years, or $200 million per year. The Canadian tv deals are significantly in the NHL's favour, but the combined totals still see the NBA's numbers dwarf the NHL's.
Each NBA team receives just under $90 million per year from the US national tv contract alone. That doesn't include the regional broadcast deals, sponsorship revenue, ticket sales, in-arena sales, or merchandising.
The NBA is a merchandising machine as well. I read an article a few years ago about sports licensing and it mentioned that in the previous year, the NBA had sold more LeBron James' jerseys than the total number of all NHL jerseys sold league-wide.