Another issue involving money and sports is determining how salary influences players.

Sports play an important role in society. Many people are involved in the production, playing, delegating, watching, coaching, and selling of sports. Some fans attend/watch games just to see a particular player play, some fans watch games becuase they love the team. If one player is a star or key player on a sports team, it is easy to understand why they might get paid more than other players. If one player helps the team to victory which causes the team to sell more tickets, then it is fair to say that the player earns a higher salary than some of the others. So it is easy to understand how some players get paid so much.

However, the main issue is not why or how players get paid a lot of money. The issue is that these players get paid significantly more than people who play very important roles in society.
The president of the United States only makes 400,000 a year. The president who controls the entire country gets paid less than a professional basketball player, football player, golfer. A professional athlete gets paid more money than a doctors who save lives every day.

In the corporate world, athletes and teams are more important than any other individual job in the United States. For games, seasons, teams, arenas, broadcasting, players, and fans to participate and watch sports, millions and millions of dollars are spent and made each year.

Professional athletes get paid an amount that is delegated by the price of sports. If athletes are considered workers, then they get paid an amount that matches the business they work in.
Even though their job is not as important as other jobs that help the economy run, they get paid for how much their business makes.