#player salaries

[bitcoinversus]

Sports: Andre Ingram Advocates for Higher G League Salaries

Andre Ingram, a seasoned NBA G League player, has been a vocal advocate for increased salaries for G League athletes. Ingram, who has spent over a decade in the G League, has firsthand experience with the financial challenges players face. He has consistently highlighted the need for better compensation to support players’ livelihoods and career development. Ingram’s advocacy gained significant…

[grantmentis]

I’ve said it before but so much of the current salary structure and cba was designed like no one thought about how it would effect things after the first season and now we’re seeing them try to fix it which fine but like at least be transparent about it

[jeynearrynofthevale]

Was listening to 32 Thoughts and a really interesting point about salary negotiations was brought up. If you take a pay cut and sign a “team friendly deal”, that can be seen as screwing other guys in the league over. Because it’s used against them by teams in their negotiations. So, when agents are negotiating deals for their players, there’s not only the component of what is good for the individual player vs the team but also what’s good for the nhlpa, which is a union. Friedman brought up that he actually will sometimes get that same thing brought up when he’s negotiating deals as a broadcaster. Other people in the industry have asked him not to compromise and take lesser deals because that also compresses their potential wages.

[sailoryooons]

MLB needs a god damn salary cap. I cannot deal with the Dodgers having Monopoly money and just buying everyone out from under teams!!!!!

[muirneach]

idk i just hope the tournament organizers see this (and tbh probably inevitably rome also) as a real wakeup call as to how scheduling goes and how they need to give them a goddamn break. i honestly doubt it because i do not think any organizers really give a shit about the actual players (otherwise this would probably not have happened tbh) but i hope they get it together

[swaggypsyduck]

it's not a want anymore it's a need

[haleigh-sloth]

I think I'm figuring out what is feeling so ominous about Blue Lock's current arc right now. I definitely feel like Blue Lock is going dark in the sense that everything happening is being televised and used for profit, the money-hungry dudes are talking in the background about god knows what, Kunigami is a test subject and we don't even really know what that means, and the kids all keep looking at social media and looking at the comments being made about them online, and their ranks are literally dependent upon the salaries being offered to them.

Everyone is all worried about the characters spiraling which, yes that's a thing that's happening. But the more I observe the details of these chapters the more I realize that lots of characters are feeling offput by their new environment that is monetizing their wins and losses and exposing them to the public's opinion of them as well.

On an interpersonal level I think the relationship Isagi and Rin have is the main conflict, Isagi's dynamic with Kaiser is something like a side show that drives the situation with Rin forward since they're similar in nature. On a big plot-level I think the issue that is stirring is something much larger scale having to do with the fact that these teenagers are slowly losing their self worth over salary offers and internet opinions.

Just overall as soon as the NEL arc started the SHIFT in the energy of the story changed so quickly. Isagi was immediately separated from everyone he found comfort in from his earlier days at Blue Lock, isolating and setting him up for a lonely environment on top of what was about to be an already stressful and competitive environment. We started seeing "tweets" and internet comments about the kids and the kids taking that to determine how valuable they are. And then the salary thing...fucking crazy.

It's giving the same energy as the hero rankings from my hero academia which, not good. The major difference is that in Blue Lock it'll likely be upheld as a bad thing lol.

Like these people were always lurking in the background but haven't really been that important, and I just breezed past this interaction several times because I wasn't interested when I came across it. But upon re-reading everything I'm seeing that yeah this is Not Good lol.

I think what feels so Ick (intentionally, I don't think this will go unaddressed) is that they've all been turned into products. And that's not a good thing.

[mik0is0bored]

Dude i gotta watch squid games season 2

[fereldanwench]

i've been considering resuming job hunting again but i think I'm still, like, traumatized from what i went through in 2021 lmao

[hungwy]

nrg and acend have left apex within the same week because apex is being kept unprofitable by EA. really fucked

[agnesandhilda]

these guys are on the same team and they're sabotaging each other like this I'm gonna lose it. my man you sink or swim together you benefit no matter who scores the point

[grantmentis]

Wish we had salary information it make trades make way more sense

[reformedmercymain]

Seeing this on Twitter is making me laugh because at the highest level competitive overwatch pro players are considering retiring after Stockholm this year because the meta is so fucking painful 💀

[the-physicality]

Knight is also making the most money (most likely) so you need her producing, versus a younger play who is closer to the average or minimum salary

If she was smart she would be open to renegotiating

[muirneach]

few good things abt the tennis payscale but one enjoyable thing is that theres no contracts

[sergeifyodorov]

in fairness the reason for stating that the draft should be abolished is players' labour rights which is kind of fair however there are ways to improve players' rights that also are like. good for the long-term health of the league lmao