Bucs join NFL players jealous of 'NBA money'
He retweeted NFL player Terrance Knighton, who wrote: "I'm not saying NBA players should make less. NBA teams have much smaller rosters -- 15 players instead of 53 -- and play an 82-game season instead of 16 as the NFL plays, but their huge contracts can make even well-paid NFL players feel lacking. Just that NFL players should be making more." Baker is hardly the first NFL player to notice the lucrative NBA deals -- Bucs linebacker Lavonte David also tweeted Saturday that "I'm here when y'all ready NBA," with a shrugging emoji, and Bucs rookie tight end O.J. It's become an annual rite of summer -- ridiculously huge NBA contracts handed out in free agency reminding NFL players that their contracts aren't fully guaranteed and aren't as ridiculously huge as their basketball counterparts.And then, a few years from now, maybe NBA players will be complaining during March about all the money NFL players are making in free agency. Posted by Mike Florio on July 8, 2017, 6:42 PM EDTAs NBA free agency continues, NFL players continue to gripe about how much more money NBA players make. That's far easier said than done, for one very significant reason: NFL players don't want to miss game checks. So if NFL players want more money, they need to cut a better deal. Ever since the failed strike of 1987, a sense has lingered that NFL players won't sacrifice money and the ability to play football to improve the broader financial circumstances for themselves and, ultimately, for the next generation of NFL players.
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