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Average NBA salary was ~15k in the early 60s, that's about $150k today


Not too bad of a salary, no idea what engineers made but it seems like the NBA was probably a better option out of school.

However you can't really play 10 years THEN go into chemical engineering and start from the bottom.

(In response to this post by Chris Coleman)

Posted: 03/18/2021 at 2:42PM



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