noname2200 on 30 June 2009
In general, I should think not, or at least, not for long. You usually get to be the best-paid because of your past performance, but that astronimical figure is usually reached after a season in which the person performed at a superhuman, and usually unsustainable, level: come next season (or the one after) the person is liable to cool down quite a bit, either because opponents study up on impeding that player, because the person becomes a bit complacent, because their luck runs out, etc. I can only name a few athletes who reached the top and stayed their for any appreciable time: most seem to be flash-in-the-pan types.
