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Message: [QUOTE="BlueMAB, post: 3523333, member: 920"] No, you just don't understand nuance. It's quite simple. Zion, like Lebron, is an outlier. Look at the article you posted. They rank them by overall amount paid. I broke it down by yearly amount. 11) Straight from HS - $2MM/year (Over 20 years ago) 10)[B] UNC - $2.4MM/year[/B] 9) LSU - $3MM/year 7) [B]Kentucky - $5MM/year[/B] 7) [B]UNC - $5MM/year[/B] 5) [B]Duke - $6MM/year[/B] 5) Georgetown - $6MM/year 4) Cuse - $6.67MM/year 3) Texas - $8.5MM/year [B]2) Duke - $15MM/year[/B] 1) High School - $13.85/year (including signing bonus) All 11: Average: $6.67MM/year Mode: $5/6MM/year Median: $5/$6MM per year Without Zion's contract (since it skews the numbers we're talking about): Average: $5.8MM/year The top rookie contracts average about $6M/year. That includes guys who did multiple years of college. Zion is getting 150% more than that. You think going to Duke bumped Zion's yearly contract up to $15MM/year from an average of $6.67MM/year because of his instagram followers. I don't. If you're going to argue about contracts and leverage, don't post instagram follows, stick to the contracts. For most of the top talent, college is probably a wiser decision. For someone like Zion, he doesn't "need" Duke's leverage, and it's laughable that anyone would argue he wasn't a household name before Duke. [/QUOTE]