the vast majority of nba players don't have significant endorsements beyond shoe deals.Very few players make much more than a hundred thousand off shoe deals.If noone knows who you are then you're not going to get paid to endorse anything.If only fans in a specific market or hardcore fans know who you then you have very little value as an endorser.People in Europe and Spain know who Rubio is,but he's hardly famous here.He's not going to make anything close to six million dollars off the court.The only way to make that sort of money is to prove that you're a superstar.I'd guess that someone like Chris Paul probably makes in the neighbourhood of six million per year in endorsements and very few players are even close to that level.There probably aren't more than twenty or thirty players in the league who make more than a million per year in endorsements and the ones at the bottom are only getting local endorsements.
Yeah, but he just got drafted fifth overall in the NBA draft. I think it's foolish to believe he won't be a star in his home country, especially if he has any measure of success.
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yeah ricky rubio is mother****ing HOT
Not judging you, but I meant that he's good looking in an 18-year-old-guy-who-is-adored-by-15-year-old-girls way.
Think Spanish Zac Effron.
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the vast majority of nba players don't have significant endorsements beyond shoe deals.Very few players make much more than a hundred thousand off shoe deals.If noone knows who you are then you're not going to get paid to endorse anything.If only fans in a specific market or hardcore fans know who you then you have very little value as an endorser.People in Europe and Spain know who Rubio is,but he's hardly famous here.He's not going to make anything close to six million dollars off the court.The only way to make that sort of money is to prove that you're a superstar.I'd guess that someone like Chris Paul probably makes in the neighbourhood of six million per year in endorsements and very few players are even close to that level.There probably aren't more than twenty or thirty players in the league who make more than a million per year in endorsements and the ones at the bottom are only getting local endorsements.
The vast majority of NBA players aren't the second most famous basketball player in their home countries. Imagine a situation similar to Yi, bu on a much smaller scale.
I live in the states, and have never left the country. I really have no idea how the market works across seas, but I do know that outside of maybe Pau Gasol, Ricky Rubio is the most popular basketball player. He's young, confident, and seems to be pretty marketable. I don't think it's far fetched to say that he could land some endorsements over in Spain. Of course this is all me speculating, it was simply an idea.
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It's not homosexual to look at another man's penis if it's just out of curiosity.
I'm sure that Rubio has endorsements in Spain.He probably has a shoe deal already.I never said he wasn't making money in Spain.That really has little to do with him playing in Minnesota.It also doesn't mean he wants to come over here and play for free when he can wait awhile and get paid millions instead.
I feel bad for Minnesota, unless they drafted him only to trade him, after what the Bucks went through with Yi i dont wish this kind of crap on any team.. i was really hoping rubio would be different
Ricky Rubio will remain in Spain to play for his DKV Joventut team for the remaining two years of his contract rather than try to move to the NBA this season, El Periodico reported today.
This is stupid. I had been waiting to see Rubio in the NBA since when he was 16. I was pretty impressed with him during the Olympics but NBA is still different
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