college player will no longer be a rare thing, even for SOME standout players.

College/ Universities are corporations with their own big markets. North Carolina
Tar Heels are a bigger brand than the Sacramento Kings, so a big time college player
going to NC could possibly make the equivalent to a rookie player who plays
for a small market nba team, and definitely make more than a G league player.

Top draft pick Cade Cunningham’s nba salary was
10 million this season. Page Bueckers made over 1 million dollars just off her
social media following, and I think Shaq’s son caked about 5 million. The average
salary in the WNBA is like 150,000, and the avg rookie nba salary is what
around 2-4 million per year( guessing)?


College players are going to exhaust every bit of eligibility that they have to take
advantage of the national exposure and big markets that come with playing in
the NCAA to generate as much revenue as possible.

A lot of those kids will not even make it to the pros, so being the big guy on campus
will be seen as more lucrative than leaving school after 1-2 years to become
the new kid on the block on a rookie deal in a small market.That can wait.