why athletes get paid so much

There I was sitting on the first day of the second semester in my fourth period economics class listening in on the discussion. First, Mr. Lindberg started talking about the meaning of economics and how it all works. Then someone asked him about his cardboard cut out of the NBA player, Kevin Garnett. He started working that into his discussion, about how athletes got paid such ridiculous amounts of money. Sitting there, I started to really think about it. By the time I got into my sixth period senior English class, I found out that we had to do a research paper. I knew what my topic was going to be about, why do athletes get paid so much? This was a great question that I was willing to search and find the answer to.
My research took my to so many different aspects of the big three pro leagues and how they all work, but first let’s start with how. How do they even get the money to pay these athletes so much? Well, this is kind of an easy question to answer. The biggest part of ...