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The MBA Players Association, You Know, Is Getting Much More Money Than Majorly Baseball
The top paid majorly baseball player at the time was willi mays, who made a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. In nineteen sixty eight, when wilts signs with the lakers, he signs a landmark five year deal for two hundred fifty grand per year. And i think sets the stage for what the now, the m b a players association, you know, all the force that it would become to day. It really starting to be an early precursor to sort of tilting the balance of power in the economics to that of a fair one - which is close where we are today....