Some more perspective for you: Clyde Drexler career earnings: $29,872,000 Greg Oden in five years (*plus $8.8 QO): $30,595,444
Yeah, inflation is weird. It's almost like the real world value of a dollar changes over time. Did you know that in the good old days, you could get a newspaper, a cup of coffee and trolley ride for a nickel? Shopkeepers (and trolley conductors) are just ripping us off nowadays. I blame it on the Internet.
As a quick approximation, grabbing the halfway point (or close to it) of Drexler's 15 year career... 1991. $30m in 1991 dollars is $49.77m in 2011 dollars. Just to give some clarity how much (little) Drexler made in his career. Ed O.
That is more useful. Player salaries have grown a lot. It would be interesting to see a full analysis of owners' books to get a sense for how owner profits have changed over time.
A proxy for that (since we won't get that data) would be to look at how the price of buying a franchise has changed over time. barfo
