With what Bryant is worth in revenue

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His new contract will have him earning 23.5 James Harden Youth Jersey million for the first season and 25 million for the second season, ensuring that he remains atop the NBA's salary leader board for the next two seasons. Obviously, from a business standpoint, this is a major steal for the Lakers, as Bryant brings in ridiculous amounts of cash with merchandise and PR every year. What's really surprising is, according to Bryant, the Lakers didn't even negotiate; they simply offered him this contract and Bryant quickly accepted. This isn't normally how contract negotiations are done in the NBA, especially not with an aging star that a team wants to keep, but still needs to focus on the future.

Of course, nobody in their right http://www.authenticrocketsshop.com/authentic-34-hakeem-olajuwon-je... minds expected the Lakers to really play hardball with Bryant, who is quite possibly the greatest player to ever put on a Lakers uniform, but to simply hand Bryant another max contract isn't good for the Lakers in a basketball sense, especially when the Lakers could have realistically saved up to 10 million in cap space if they would have simply negotiated; Bryant is no fool and he is aware of the Lakers cap situation, but at the same time, I won't fault him for taking the deal that was on the table, considering that he is worth substantially more than what can possibly be offered under the limitations of the CBA.

With what Bryant is worth in revenue (his net-worth is estimated at a whopping 220 million dollars), this Josh McRoberts Youth Jersey contract really speaks to what the cap situation is in the NBA, where there is a limited amount to what you can give to a star player, despite said player being worth more to their teams, both on the playing field and financially, than a top player in baseball or football, for example. If this was a true open market, Bryant would be worth so much more than 25 million a year. However, this isn't an open market; there's a cap limit to take into account, and it seems like that's something the Lakers didn't really think about.

I'm not at all against the contract; keeping Bryant in a Laker uniform for all 20 of his years in the NBA not only is impressive with the NBA's current culture and how the CBA has set restrictions against long and massive contracts, but it also is a service to both the fans and Bryant himself, after all, it is very rare to see a star player stay with one team for his whole career. The http://www.officialheatprostore.com/authentic-41-glen-rice-jersey.html uproar in L.A. would have been astronomical if the Lakers had let Bryant leave this summer. It makes a lot of sense if we simplify it all: A max contract player is supposed to make a lot of money for his franchise, and nobody does that better than Bryant, who, on top of consistently being Top-3 in jersey sales every year, is quite possibly the most popular player in the world, playing in the second biggest market the NBA has to offer. It's a great signing for the Lakers from a business point of view.