The writer cherry picks a few athletes pay and compares it to average doctors pay. It is statistical fraud. My guess is if we average all athletic salary including all sports and all paid participants the average would be lower than doctors.
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/