I don't know about the NBA but if you look at the stunning difference between Mike Trout's salary (35 million/year) and an AAA minor league player's (700/week)

I don't know about the NBA but if you look at the stunning difference between Mike Trout's salary (35 million/year) and an AAA minor league player's (700/week) you might be even more stunned by the difference between their batting averages (ie, around .100). Point is, once someone gets "in the game" and isn't just playing for fun, valuations get really strange. As another example, I am impressed by the salaries at Facebook when it is still just a particularly herky-jerky Myspace clone, or at Youtube, which is the same website it always was 10+ years ago ("But now with TWO types of annotations no one asked for.") What are all those geniuses doing? They aren't even batting above average as far as I can tell. ... As for baking, I knew a professional baker when I worked in a restaurant. Man, that guy was miserable and weird. He made nice-looking stuff third shift for the next day, but knowing him, I wasn't about to eat any of it.