Sports entertainment has a price, and the four major North American sports have made plenty of athletes very wealthy.
During the respective 2023 seasons in the NBA and NFL, eight players hold contracts with average salaries north of $50 million.
MLB and NHL numbers are considered but fall below the mark. Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer share the MLB’s top annual mark at $43.3 million, while Nathan MacKinnon is the NHL leader at $12.6 million.
Looking ahead to 2024, newly signed Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani may hold the No. 1 spot thanks to his average $70 million deal. (Of course, since 97 percent is deferred for a decade, maybe that’s more a conversation in 2034, anyway.)
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