都是領域帶頭大哥 爲啥詹姆斯賺錢不如C羅?大綱

庫裏簽了當時NBA史上最大的合同：五年2.01億美元。勒布朗立刻爲他鳴不平：幹嘛工資要上限呢？斯蒂芬應該拿五年四億美元！說是英雄惜英雄，其實勒布朗也在爲自己那個羣體——巨星羣體，說話。

So tell me again why there's a cap on how much a player should get?? Don't answer that. Steph should be getting 400M this summer 5yrs.
誰來告訴我：爲什麼規定一個球員最多能領多少薪水？這個夏天，斯蒂芬本應得5年4億的合同！

It reopened an old topic: Just how much would James be worth in an open market in which there was no NBA salary cap or maximum salary rule?
這件事開啓一個老話題：在一個沒有NBA工資帽或最高工資限制的自由市場中，詹姆斯的身價到底應該值多少？

Over the years, as James has occasionally referenced being underpaid -- "At the end of the day, I don't think my value on the floor can really be compensated for because of the [rules]," he said in 2013 -- there have been varying attempts by economists and journalists to try to quantify his true worth.
這些年來，就像詹姆斯偶爾提及薪水過低的事：“一天下來，我認爲我在場上的價值由於這些‘限制規則’沒有獲得足夠的補償。”他說在2013年，有一些經濟學家和記者做了不同的嘗試，試圖衡量他的真實價值。

Well, there may finally be a comparable athlete who sets James' true market value.
我們最終找到了一位可以和詹姆斯真實市場價值相媲美的運動員。

European soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo agreed to a new contract with Juventus. Not including the transfer fee to Ronaldo's former team, Real Madrid, that will exceed $100 million, Ronaldo will get a four-year contract worth about $258 million, or an average salary of $64.5 million per season.
歐洲足球巨星克里斯蒂亞諾·羅納爾多和尤文圖斯達成了一份新合同。不包括C羅的前東家皇家馬德里1億美元的轉會費，C羅將得到一份四年2.58億美元的合同，或者說平均一個賽季6450萬美元。

Give or take a few million a year, that massive annual figure could indeed be what James might fetch in an uncapped NBA market.
一年多幾百萬左右，那個巨大的年度數字確實是詹姆斯在一個沒有工資帽限制的市場上可以得到的。

James and Ronaldo are quite similar. Both are icons of their sport and worldwide marketing superstars with tens of millions of followers on social media. Both are 33 years old.
詹姆斯和羅納爾多非常相似。他們都是各自體育界的偶像人物，在世界範圍內都擁有巨大市場的超級明星，在社交媒體上擁有數千萬的粉絲。他們都是33歲

James turned pro at age 18, Ronaldo at age 17. Both have won a slate of player of the year trophies, hold numerous scoring records and have claimed conference and league championships.
詹姆斯18歲成爲職業運動員，羅納爾多17歲。二人都多次贏得年度最佳球員獎，保持着許多得分記錄並且都獲得過聯盟總冠軍。

And both just signed four-year contracts. Ronaldo landed with the Italian soccer powerhouse that is one of the richest and most storied sports franchises in the world, valued at $1.47 billion by Forbes.
而且他們都剛剛簽了四年的合同。羅納爾多與意大利足球豪門達成合約，後者爲世界上最富有、最具有傳奇色彩的球隊之一，被福布斯估值爲14.7億美元。

James joined the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA's richest and most high-profile franchise, valued at more than $3 billion by Forbes.
詹姆斯加入洛杉磯湖人隊，NBA最富有、最引人注目的球隊，福布斯估價市值超過30億美元。

But James will be getting about 40 percent less per year than Ronaldo, earning $153 million for an average salary of $38.3 million.
但是詹姆斯的年薪要比羅納爾多少40%，四年1.53億，平均每年3830萬美元。

The key difference
最重要的區別

The Lakers have to share in what can be described as a socialistic system aimed to achieve better parity between the haves and have-nots in the NBA. Juventus doesn't have to share as much.
湖人處在一個旨在實現NBA中富人和窮人之間更好的平等關係的社會系統中。尤文圖斯就不需要分擔那麼多。

James once joked that he'd be willing to play in Europe if he could get paid $50 million per season. If he ever wants to get to that number, he may want to take up soccer.
詹姆斯曾開玩笑說，如果他一個賽季可以得到5000萬美元，他願意去歐洲踢球。如果他真的想得到這些錢，他可能願意去踢足球吧。