leagues that made them rich for even bigger riches let's talk about how that would work with victor mathesonprofessor of economics at college of the holy cross victor let's have an example here earlier this month the multichannel and ship one in golden state warriors signed a star player steph curry to a five year two hundred million dollar contract it sounds nice but the man who lost a curry twice in the playoffs cleveland so bron james he lashed out saying curry should be making twice as much money in what world as curry not making what he's worth. well let's first of all say stuff in courage just signed the most lucrative contract in the history of team sports in the united states or anywhere else in the world forty million dollars a year yet i agree with the le bron the guys underpaid. just seven years ago when curry joined the golden state warriors over the past seven years all the successes brought the team the increase in the value of the golden state warriors over a billion dollars most of that's attributable to stuff and curry you know to tell you the truth forty million dollars a y