Brittney Griner Sounds Off on New G-League Payment For High School Stars [NBA/WNBA]

SI ^ | October 19, 2018 | Alaa Abdeldaiem

[C19fan]

Brittney Griner has a lot to say about the NBA's new G-League offer to top prospects.

In an Instagram post that she shared on Friday, the Phoenix Mercury center called out the new G-League contracts, which are offering $125,000 to elite prospects who are at least 18 years old but not yet eligible for the NBA draft as an alternative to the NCAA's one-and-done route.

"Must be f------ nice coming out of college getting that," Griner said in the post. "We def didn't see any money like that till we went overseas. AWAY FROM OUT FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES AND HAVE TO PLAY YEAR ROUND."

[xkaydet65]

Not holding MLB up on a pedestal. The stuff that goes on in Latin America especially the DR, is awful, but that works both ways as many Latin playrrs get phone BCs that show them 5,6 years younger. See Cespedes who is likely 36 not 32. My point was that for American draft eligible players the MLB model is fairer to the player and the college they may attend.

[Figment]

Griner should quit trying to pass himself off as a she and see what he can earn

[Redwood71]

I appreciate you have an understanding of the questionable hiring practices of MLB, also. It means you also understand the advantages that MLB is using in those regions. As of the start of the season, there were 259 players on Opening Day rosters were born outside of the U.S., marking a new high for the league since it began tracking this data in 1995. Those athletes make up 29.8 percent of the league’s total 868 players. (The previous record for highest number of foreign-born players was 246 in 2007, while the record for highest percentage of foreign-born players was 29.2 percent in 2005.)

The Texas Rangers boast the most players from countries outside the U.S., with 14 players from six different countries and territories. The San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Los Angeles Angels and the Philadelphia Phillies all have more than 10 players from other countries. In total, 19 countries and territories are represented in the MLB, including the Dominican Republic (93 players), Venezuela (77) and Cuba (23).

And in the land of $30K contracts for 16 year olds that look big by their standards, poverty level by ours, the clubs are really cheating the players. And all those $30K players are talking up spaces from the college and amateur players in the US based upon money and nothing else, including talent.

To be honest, MLB is probably the worst of the sports using questionable tactics to present their sport to a public with an attitude of acceptance of sub standard performances. And they’ve perfected the art as they have been doing it for over 60 years.

rwood

[xkaydet65]

Good article on MiLB salaries on Marketplace.org.

[Redwood71]

Read the article, but here’s some info I picked up, also from another article:

Major League Baseball has only recently changed the international signing rules to assign each team an international pool of money to be spent on international players based upon franchise value and recent success. This should certainly limit the amount of money being handed out to international players and keep salaries mostly in line with domestic and international players. This rule only applies to those players who are younger than 23 and who have less than two years of experience at the professional levels. Those players older than 23 and with three years of experience still face no limit on the contract they may be offered. But that can be high or low as it can depend on the success of the team’s capacity to get TV contracts which raises the available money, up to the salary cap, to be used. (Along with the competition for the player) This is why the same ball clubs pay more for their players as the TV contracts generate huge revenues. The Yankees and Dodgers consistently bust the salary caps each year in their efforts to gain it back in post season. Not questionably they are in the minority of sugar daddies to the players. But that gets into another nasty topic: large and small market teams. And that’s a bad topic and a black eye for the business. But it is directly related to salary capacity.

rwood