{"id":104321,"date":"2015-03-13T20:45:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T03:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=104321"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:45:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T03:45:35","slug":"how-action-sports-stack-up-against-the-big-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=104321","title":{"rendered":"$$$ &#8211; How action sports stack up against the &#8220;Big 4&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his pro mountain biking career Darren Berrecloth has suffered through back surgeries, cracked ribs and more broken bones than he likes to count.<\/p>\n<p>But first-place prizes for freeride competitions remain only in the $25,000 to $35,000 range, he says. Between sponsorships and prize money, most freeriders make $50,000 to $200,000 a year. Compare those modest totals to the multi-million paydays enjoyed by athletes in traditional \u201cstick and ball\u201d sports leagues.\u00a0Between salary and endorsements, NBA players earned an average\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/edge\/2015\/02\/10\/inside-the-business-of-action-sports\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his pro mountain biking career Darren Berrecloth has suffered through back surgeries, cracked ribs and more broken bones than he likes to count. But first-place prizes for freeride competitions remain only in the $25,000 to $35,000 range, he says. Between sponsorships and prize money, most freeriders make $50,000 to $200,000 a year. Compare those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104322,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104321\/revisions\/104322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}