Long time no post... but I just read this today and had to share. SI just published their top 50 highest paid American athletes for the year. No surprise, Tiger Woods is way ahead of the pack at $99 million for last year and that's actually down from the previous year. First basketball player is James at $42 mil, then Shaq, Garnett, Kobe, Iverson, yada, yada. That's all expected. The sad/funny part comes at #30 and 31... Rashard Lewis and Shawn Marion. LOL... that's a shammockery of the NBA salary system and economic model if there ever was one. I mean, sure lots of the people on the list are making way more than they deserve right now (i.e. Shaq & AI), but at least they were worth that much at some point of their contracts. But Lewis and Marion? A couple of third options on winning teams? And the fact that this is just the 2nd year of Rashard's 6 year, $118 million dollar deal means that we'll be seeing his name on this list for years to come.
You can check out the list yourself here...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/2009/index.html
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