Mark Cuban: NBA Players Will Soon Make More Money Than Their Billionaire Team Owners

The earning potential between professional basketball players and team owners has always been present. While players are able to become multimillionaires as talent, owners have been able to become billionaires while watching from a stadium box. But Mark Cuban, current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, believes the earnings gap might change in coming years.  YouTube screenshot, “Club Shay Shay” In a recent interview with Shannon Sharpe on “Club Shay Shay,” Mark Cuban shared the idea that NBA players might one day earn more than team owners. “They’ll be making more money a year than I will. You’re going to have players making more than the owners, and that’s OK,” Cuban told Sharpe. “There is no league without them. They are the league and they earned every penny of it.” The NBA recently signed an 11-year deal valued at more than $77 billion with ESPN, Amazon and NBC. According to Cuban the earning potential of players is expected to increase, if its media contract continues to rise as this would allow the league’s salary cap to increase.& Cuban, who sold his majority ownership in the Mavericks for $2 billion in 2023 and is still currently a minority owner of the...