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NBA minimum pay ain’t exactly chopped liver.

“Listed below are 2019/20’s minimum salary figures, sorted by years of NBA experience. If a player spent any time on an NBA club’s active regular season roster in a given season, he earned one year of experience. So any player with zero years of experience has not yet made his NBA debut.”

Years of Experience Salary
0- $898,310
1- $1,445,697
2- $1,620,564
3- $1,678,854
4- $1,737,145
5- $1,882,867
6- $2,028,594
7- $2,174,318
8- $2,320,044
9- $2,331,593
10+ $2,564,753

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/06/nba-minimum-salaries-for-201920.html

So a new player with not even one game under his belt is guaranteed to make $898,310 as long as he is on the roster forONE game.
Pretty cushy.

The base pay for a drafted NFL rookie is $325,000 as long as he is on the team opening day.

The MLB minimum pay is $555,000.
Pretty cushy for a pine rider on the big team.
For guys stuck in the minors, not so much.
“According to The Athletic, the average salary for a minor league baseball player was $6,000 in Single-A, $9,350 in Double-A and $15,000 in Triple-A in 2018.”

https://fanbuzz.com/mlb/minor-league-baseball-salary/