Last week, Sports Illustrated published its annual list of the "Most Fortunate Athletes," combining salaries/winnings with endorsement incomes to paint a picture of the jocks who are making it rain more than a high pressure system in April. Of course, many of these 50 athletes are NBA players (sidenote: none of these 50 athletes are women).
We decided it would be interesting to look at these take-ins in comparison to how many points each player scored in the 2009-2010 regular season. Sure, this is an oversimplified way of looking at a player's value, and sure, it doesn't account for injuries, suspensions, or any other freak occurrences. But if you're willing to think about pure offensive production as a good measure of a player's ultimate bargaining potential, the below figures are a good indicator of how much certain teams--and companies--must be feeling like they've been straight up had.
As an added value, we've figured out what one point for each of these players could buy them:
