It Costs over $4k a Year to Be a Sports Fan Now

To pick one sport:

https://www.si.com/nba/whats-average-nba-salary-for-2024-25-...

> Given the contracts signed so far, the average annual salary for NBA players during the 2024-25 season will be $11,910,649, according to Basketball Reference. That's up from the $9.7 million from the 2023-24 season.

There's about 500 of them, so that's about $6B per year.