Hoops

Are NBL players rich?

If you were on $400k you could afford to pay someone to check time stamps for you

depends how smart they are with their money

When compared to other Australian sports, not the NBA, they earn much less on AVERAGE than players in the NRL, AFL or even the A-League.

Some of the players are not on top money their entire career, then there are those who's careers do not last very long

If you were to go around to the top name guys who are now retired after 10year plus careers in Australia to see how they are doing, comfortable would probably be their lifestyle, but I know a few who are working really hard for money post retirement and their names even surprise people to think they wouldnt be well off.

In the long run, the money they make does not set the up for life. There is not on Australian basketballer who could retire and just enjoy retirement, the all have to work in some way to survive, just like Andrew Gaze who has done fantastically with his opportunites and probably makes more now commentating than what he did as a player.

rich no, comfortable yes.

Its a fair question, Some players have their own business ect which can make them rich but playing salary alone would only make you rich if you invested it properly.
You guys above^ making fun of the question asker suck, yep you do.

Sure Mike has not worked out as we had all hoped and sure his time is up and should be replaced.
But for the first time in 20 years of going to home games I felt disgusted in what I saw, and had I been sitting behind the sixers bench would have given Phil a few words of advice.
With 11.20 to go in the game and being down by 11, Phil made the change of the year by taking off Mike C.

With the game, and we may as well say the season, hanging on those last 11 mins, despite all his form problems Mike had to be on court to give us some kind of chance.
Why would you not put your best 5 on and live and die by that decision. Now I'm not a big Mike C fan but he has the potential to put some points on the board
Instead he had Brad, Darren and Sutton all out there. (why do we need 3 guards out there at crunch time)Sutton did nothing but turn the ball over and give the Crocs more confidence.
Get Sutton off and give Mike a 'chance' to save himself and the team and the season.

Our one foray into a trapping defence was farcical and let them stoll down the middle for two easy lay ups.
Do you think Phil watched the trap that South put on us last week, or the trap that Bris always uses to upset us?
Does he know how to coach a team and teach new ideas?
All his coaching career he has lived behind his marquee players (Mee, Brooks, Maher, Cat) who know how to flat out play. When he has needed to develop players/skills (Holmes, Forman, Hill, etc) he has come up with a big fat donut.
Sorry to go on but, the frustration has finally got the better of me and i needed to vent.(and by the looks of Boti's article he feels the same way)