NBA PLAYERS & POLICIES BY YAHMIEN CONNER, 8TH GRADE, CHICAGO

NBA Players & POLICIES

BY YAHMIEN CONNER, 8TH GRADE, CHICAGO

Being a basketball player, or just being a sports player and turning it into a career, has always been a dream. But not many people know how wrong and how terrible sports players can be treated. It's not just professional players who are getting ripped off. College players are being ripped off, too.

Basketball players are often traded as if they are collectibles. They aren't allowed to say where they want to go, which team they want to play with or if they want to stay on the team that they are in. But if they get traded out of nowhere, they have no say in it. It's completely ridiculous. There are even times where players make contracts, end up doing way more and succeeding for the team and making billions of dollars, and won't get a chance to re-discuss their contract or get their fair amount of pay. College basketball players are no different. Colleges will make millions of dollars off their student players, and the players don't get a single dime for it.

Now, I'm not telling anyone to change what they want to be, or revise their dream. If you want to go into the sports industry, then good for you. Just make sure that you know what you're getting yourself into.