Let's drop the state sponsorship of professional men's sports and sporting arenas down to the level that we give to the women's teams and see how those salaries look in a couple of years...
The entire business model of professional sports requires socializing the cost of infrastructure through subsidizing the transportation, location, and logistics and exempting every one of these monopoly wealth getting schemes from labor laws, antitrust, and public review.
The NBA, NFL, MLB, etc are a scam And they need to learn how to pay their own bills.