Contracts Quote by Sonny Vaccaro
![“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.” quote by Sonny Vaccaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/292/sonny-vaccaro-29117_contracts_kobe-bryant-had-the-biggest-contract-for_1461193.jpg)
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
![“There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.” quote by Sonny Vaccaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d61/sonny-vaccaro-29117_bucks_there-s-brandon-jennings-the-nba-told-hi_712460.jpg)
![“I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer…” quote by Sonny Vaccaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e5/sonny-vaccaro-29117_association_i-was-starting-out-in-the-business-there_791311.jpg)
![“What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But…” quote by Sonny Vaccaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d86/sonny-vaccaro-29117_college_what-would-have-happened-if-derrick-rose_2541494.jpg)
