Trey Burke Traded - Again

He still made $23MM

Equivalent to $23M for a career is an avg of $575k/yr over a 40 year career. These people are in the same tax bracket. The difference is Trey got all that in 10 yrs and can invest it to make even more over the next 30 years. 

Poor guy still doesn’t qualify for those stimulus checks even after you subtract taxes and management fees. 

I still watch that game on occasion. I remember having a few friends over to watch it live and when it looked like Michigan was done and was definitely going home to watch the rest of the tournament like fans my friends had left my apartment and as I was cleaning up the empty beer cans and paper plates with pizza crusts left on them I had the game on of course and I was occasionally glancing at the tv as I was finishing cleaning up my occasional glancing quickly became sitting back on the couch and watching with unbelief as the Wolverines steadily closed the gap and I began to fire text messages at my friends who had departed that Michigan had went on a run and had made it a game again. As I watched I really didn’t believe that they would come all the way back and win the game because I had seen so many games where teams had given their best efforts but had either run out of time or just couldn’t make enough shots and get enough stops against a really good team like Kansas to actually come all the way back and eventually win the game but little did I know that Michigan had a real life Superman himself on the team named Trey Burke who would nail a 3 point shot from about 30 feet with bodies falling all around him to actually tie the game with about 6 seconds left. I could not believe what I had just witnessed with nobody around me to high five or look at with amazement I just sat on my couch with goosebumps and thought I can not believe what I had just seen and we all know what happened from there and the rest is a storybook moment in Michigan basketball and NCAA tournament history. That was one of the greatest games I have ever seen in NCAA tournament history. What a team effort and what an amazing game. I still get chills just thinking about the effort that team gave that night. You can watch basketball for the rest of your life and you still might not see another game like that. What a time to be alive!!
 

Go Blue!!

I wonder also: that chart is as of 2018, so if we subtract 11 from 2018 we get 2007.  Was that a particularly good year for NBA players coming out of college?  Maybe that 11th year spike represents a group of above-average players who came out at the same time and are working their way through a longer-than-average NBA career.

Maybe a better way is starters.     NFL 7 players for 22 starting positions  30%, NBA 2 players for 5 starting positions 40%

I think that must be a mistake. Vince Carter recently retired as the NBA player with the longest career, and he played 22 seasons.

Gordie Howe homie. The man was indestructible.

That has to be an error, the longest nba career is 22 years by Vince Carter.

Agreed, but at the very least, thank god it's no pie chart...

To your second point, my thought there is that NHL's athlete's bodies' are in much "healthier" shape than a football which is a sport that by and large emphasizes otherwise excessive playing weights, all the more so for lineman. All that weight on top of the hits can't be good for the joints long-term. Might be able to examine my hypothesis better if one were able to break out length of NFL career by position

Someone that ran out of color ink in their home printer, or knows how expensive that crap is.

My uneducated guess is that NHL careers are longer than NBA careers because skating is easier on the body than running on a hard floor.  As for MLB, most players' ability to hit a fastball declines significantly after age 29.  I'd suspect that the average career of pitchers is much longer than that of position players for that reason.  You see more pitchers at the top of their game in the late 30s/early 40s, like Verlander and Scherzer.