I caught a bit of the news last night that just made my blood boil. They were interviewing a few NBA players upset over the league's decision to institute a dress code. I don't really care that some of them don't like the idea of a dress code or the specifics of the code the league is putting into place. What really set me off was that a number of players are complaining about the cost and suggesting that the league give them a clothing stipend to pay for their new threads.

USA Today has a nice handy database of NBA Salaries. For 2004-05 the highest team median salary was the Dallas Mavericks at $5,900,000. The lowest was the New Jersey Nets with a median salary of $939.480. The lowest paid player on the Nets is Jabari Smith making a poultry $720,000.

The league minimum for a first year player in the NBA in the 2005-06 season is $398,762.

So the lowest paid player in the league is pulling down $400K and these punks are whining that they are going to have to go out and buy a couple of pairs of khakis?

Laura Ingraham may be fast approaching the world record for the most often paraphrased book title, here's mine.

Shut up and play.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:18 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment