The NBA announced its revenue situation for the 2024-2025 season, but the situation is not optimistic and has not met expectations.

On July 4, the NBA announced the revenue situation for the 2024-2025 season. The situation is not optimistic and has not met expectations. According to the relevant NBA agreement, if the total revenue of the league does not meet expectations, 9% of the players' income will be deducted, which is really a big loss. This fully demonstrates a problem. The current NBA is really not good-looking, and the ratings are constantly declining!

Let's first look at the NBA's income distribution principles. The proportion between bosses and players is 51:49. Because the players' salary is determined before the start of the season. Take James as an example. The annual salary this season is 52.63 million, but how much income the team boss Jenny Buss is an unknown. If the total income of the league does not meet expectations, then at that time, the player's income will be deducted from the players' income, which is 9%!

Then, in the 2024-2025 season, the total revenue of the NBA has been fully released. The specific amount is not stated, but it is lower than expected. The original estimate was US$102.57, and the actual income is not as expected. Then every player will be deducted 9%, and this 9% was deducted before the start of the season and is included in the custodial fund! As a result, the players have suffered a lot of losses this year.

Look at Curry, the highest annual salary this year, has a $59.6 million income, and 9% of the income is equal to $5.36 million. What does this mean? The lost part of the money can be signed to Horford, who is popular with the Warriors this year, which is equivalent to half of the full middle class this year!

Let’s take a look at James’ situation. His annual salary this season is about 52.6 million US dollars. According to a 9% ratio, the loss is about 4.73 million, or almost 5 million!

Apart from James and Curry, the good guys suffered a lot of losses, either more than 4 million or more than 5 million. Of course, this amount may not make them hurt, but after all, you can buy a villa that little money!

And it’s okay for players with high incomes, so what about those players with basic salary? Take Goodwin of the Lakers for example. He has been wandering in the NBA for many years and finally signed a basic salary contract with the Lakers, $2.35 million, which is almost a loss of 220,000 yuan. You should know that for such players, 220,000 yuan is really a big amount.

So, the NBA's revenue did not meet expectations, who is the blame for? After all, Xiao Hua has to be blamed, he made three very serious mistakes.

First, let the traffic team be eliminated early and increase the losses. Take the Lakers as an example. You should know that Xiao Hua actually made the Lakers and the Timberwolves play only 5 games in the game between the Lakers and the Timberwolves. The key question is that in these 5 games, the Lakers have only one game with the two superstars James and Doncic, and the Lakers have only one game of free throws. What does this mean?

The league not only did not help the Lakers in the game, but instead hoped to get the Lakers out early, but only played 5 games. According to the Knicks and the Pacers at that time, the revenue per game was US$300 million. So, even if the Lakers and the Timberwolves played one more game, wouldn’t this be an extra 300 million?

Second, there are constant body whistles, and they are cheating and fouls, and no one dunks. Since Xiao Hua took office, in order to attract attention, he has no idea what kind of game the fans want to watch. He thinks that they score a lot of points in each game, and the data is very exaggerated, so it looks very good. Then all kinds of body whistles are not allowed to defend. In the whole game, they only shoot 3 points, but they also shoot 3 points. It is obvious that there is no confrontational sports, so is it still sports? As the ratings drop, the income will naturally decline.

Third, the control of the game is too obvious, and you can know the result before the game is played. It can be said that this year, the referee's control of the game is particularly obvious, especially the referee does not want any team to win. He blew the opponent's most defensive player at the beginning of the game, and then waits for the score difference to widen, and then adds the whistle. At the end, he feels that the losing side has taken advantage of it. So, it's okay to control the game, but what is the purpose of controlling the game? It was to increase the NBA's revenue. As a result, after controlling for a long time, the NBA's revenue dropped.

But luckily now, James, Durant, Curry and others have not retired yet, and they can still save some ratings. When James, Durant, Curry and others retire, it depends on what he does?

is so big! If the NBA's income does not meet the standards, 9% will be deducted for each person, and James and Curry will lose 5 million!