How long until an athlete signs a 1 billion dollar contract?

[MJ Freedom]

I'm only 18, I got time

That's what you think.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Breh, we've been seeing $250 Million contracts for the last 15 years.... and literally none of these have happened but parking prices.

once these BRICS countries really get somewhere, it'll be a soccer star that gets that.

Brehs got it wrong. It won't be soccer, it'll be F1. Its the series thats had the highest yearly salaries. The problem is the years. Its such a results now based business deals last 3-5 years.

Kimi Raikkonen's first deal with Ferrari was at $51mil a year (which I belive is the highest yearly salary in sports ever). It was the last and the biggest of the F1 mega deals before the economic collapse brought prices in the sport down.

 

[DStyles]

All I'm going to say is that it will happen in football first.

R Madrid will probably be that fukkboy team to offer that 1 billion contract.

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

So first of all it will be baseball and the biggest contracts have doubled in the past decade or so, so evem if we slow that rate i can see it happening by 2050

A miggy/trout guy will get one from the yankees or dodgers by then...12 year 85 million per

Definitely not baseball...

Unless you feel that MLB team values are going to sky rocket in the next 25 years. Unfortunately, I am of the opinion that baseball begins a slow decline once its core fan base (50 year old white men) begin to die off.

It has to be a sport with global reach and the room for expansion.

1.) Soccer- its pretty global already, so hard to imagine it growing any further. However, If they start consolidating teams in Euro, rather than having 5 leagues full of silly names, you could easily have a $500mm+ athlete

2.) Basketball- Probably the most likely. The NBA still has plenty of room to expand globally and to make teams even that more valuable.

 

[superunknown23]

I remember how shocked I was when A-Rod signed that $250m contract with the Rangers...
shyt seemed so surreal

 

[Ohene]

We will be dead in hell by then

 

[unit321]

I think it is inevitably going to happen.

I don't mean like some Zimbabwe hyperinflation type shyt, I mean a clear one billion. Like, a 1 percenter billion.

Interesting question. This link shows top paid athletes.
http://www.forbes.com/athletes/

Floyd Mayweather is the highest paid. For a player to get a billion dollar contract, the team he's playing for has to be worth more than a billion. I don't think any of the big team sports are even close, soccer:hockey, baseball, football, basketball. The Dallas Cowboys are estimated to be worth 3.2 billion. Salary cap prevents them putting all their eggs in one basket. As for individual sports, like boxing, golf, tennis, car racing, the sport has to bring in more revenue than the overall winnings in a year of that sport. And I think the bottom of the world's economy is going to drop before an athlete gets paid $500 million (of half a billion) for playing a game.

All the big money athletes are getting multi-million dollar contracts... spread out over multiple years.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Worst thing is.....someone will blow that money too and be broke at the end

Some niccas just cant money manage brehs

 

[Montez]

Only sport I can see this happening in baseball but that's still far off. You essentially need a world sport with strong digital reach. Basketball, Formula 1, and Soccer all have that but they're all implementing cost measures.

If the NBA didn't have a cap, Lebron would've been pulling in 300-400 million, maybe even $500. I just don't see owners doing they're stingy fukks.

With leagues having collective TV deals I don't see this happening.

Can't see in soccer because of all the cost measures in place.

 

[Quarterback]

Only sport I can see this happening in baseball but that's still far off. You essentially need a world sport with strong digital reach. Basketball, Formula 1, and Soccer all have that but they're all implementing cost measures.

If the NBA didn't have a cap, Lebron would've been pulling in 300-400 million, maybe even $500. I just don't see owners doing they're stingy fukks.

Breh, the cap is necessary for the league's health. If they didn't have a cap, it might have folded by now, no lie. Small market teams need the help. So LeBron wouldn't be making the loot you said, he'd be in some regional league because the NBA would collapse.

 

[BXKingPin82]

my lil man gonna be the 1st

cant wait too

he'll be buying my weed for the rest of my life :jrpoitup:

 

[Montez]

Breh, the cap is necessary for the league's health. If they didn't have a cap, it might have folded by now, no lie. Small market teams need the help. So LeBron wouldn't be making the loot you said, he'd be in some regional league because the NBA would collapse.

Lebron is worth that homie, at the very least, that was my point.

Lakers, Clippers, Nets, and Knicks would be willing to pay him a King's ransom.