Basketball has a roster of only 15 players, while football has rosters of 53 athletes. Therefore, the pay has to be split among more players. Football also has only one "star" position that garners a lot of attention and generates large contracts: quarterback. In basketball, any of the five position players could be worthy of max contracts due to the nature of the game.
Each sport also has different collective bargaining agreements between the player unions and the respective owner's associations.
Football
The first MLB player to earn $1 million per year was Nolan Ryan in 1979. I haven't been able to find the NBA & NFL players as of yet.
ALOT!!! Baseball,basketball and football earn alot. in the millions
alot alot
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The amount of money a professional Basketball player earns will vary. It will depend on how good they are and which team they play on. The average pro basketball player salary is about $2 million per year.
2000$-5000$
In football, a player earns a half sack when they contribute to sacking the quarterback along with another player. This means that both players are credited with half of the sack.
A couple million.
It depends. But quite a lot. E.g. basketball players make 1 to 4 millions.
On average, about $1,000,000