Mike Imbayan
EAP 2 writer’s workshop
Ms.Wright
Essay
September 6,2007
Professional athletes income
Do you know that the average salaries of basketball player in NBA?. Its around 2.2 million per year. But for superstar Micheal Jordan received $200,000 for every shot that counts(“Show Me the Money”,1997). All professional athletes work hard to get to the point that they are called “professional athletes”. Even though they have a lot of salaries but they are human and human is all the same. They still work for money and sometimes they work hard to earn more money. They build commitment to themselfs to be professional altheles. It is hard to be a professional athletes because they need both fitness and mental ability to be one. Professional athletes should be allowed to make big salaries because they need the talent to use in the games, they need the private life to get compromised and they need a commitment to be a professional athletes.
Firstly, to be a professional athlete is really hard because not everyone can be an athlete. The lucky person with a talent will be a professional athlete. Talent did not come from a normal person but it comes from extraordinary person that he knows he got the talent. For instance Allen Iverson in the NBA is a superstar and he play very well in basketball because he got the talent and the talent he got make him a professional athlete. For example, when he play basketball he will beat the other team because he use the talent and bring his team to a victory. But some people can build the talent from young like they spend the whole life trying to be a professional athletes and also dreaming about becoming one someday. This is why all professional athletes get a lot of money.
Moreover, it need a commitment person to be an athlete. This is because if they want to become a athlete they need to be a better person that people will respect. People do not want athletes that are bad in life. For example an athlete man who rape a twenty year old college girl. This is a bad example to the society if this is one of the athlete. Therefore,athlete need to maintain their lifestyle and behavior. Such as, just don’t be crazy to people control the behavior and when meet people greed them. Moreover, they help the charity by donating money,cloths,food and pants. According to Henderson from the hawks team on NBA(2007) “the Hawks organization and HOT 107.9 FM are teaming up to help the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless by holding a coat drive”(para.1). That is what people want professional athletes to be a role model to every young ones and also give credit to this athletes because they help people to get a better life in future. They are many reason professional athlete to have money and this is one of the reason.
Furthermore, athletes are busy and they need to have private life in someway. Many athletes private life has been disturbed by being a professional athletes because they are really busy in life. For example, they leave their family at home and go to a basketball tournament and won’t be back at home in two weeks. Also they only have around one day to be at home and spend time with their families. After that they are going to another tournament. Sometimes they do a commercial and have no time for family. For instance, like magic Johnson have children to take care of but he is always not at home to have some time with his children. Professional athletes private life get compromised every time. Moreover, they always have the passion to be a successful athlete. This is why athlete get paid so much money to be a professional athletes because it is not easy.
Opponents of the athlete the got huge salaries is the think it is only a game that people play and like to watch and also that easy to get that much money. However, this is untrue because it is not that easy to be become an athlete. It is the life they had putting on risk they make. For example, they risk their families at home and go to a game that are so far away from their families.To be a professional athletes is like putting a life on the edge that will fail. For instance, like basketball game they love to play and know how to play but sometimes they put their life on that game. Like Tracy Mcgrady , he love to play and also put his life on it to become a professional athletes. This is because all of the professional athletes get huge amounts of money.
In conclusion, professional athletes is fare enough to get a huge amount of money because they got the talent, commitment and risk they put on. To become professional athlete is hard because it needs a pontential and talent people. They still need be passion in life to become a professional athlete that get a huge amount of money everyday is set your mind on it. Everybody can get what they want but the talent can go higher than the average people.
Reference
Show me the money! Do pro athletes make too much money?(1997, may 5). Retrieved September 6,2007,from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n26_v96/ai_19437488
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