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I believe that professional athletes deserve the salaries they receive. There are many reasons I have which support my belief. I hope that everyone will feel different towards this topic when I’m through arguing my position. First, many people just assume that athletes don’t deserve their salaries, because of the astronomical amounts. Often times, people compare athletes to doctors. They believe the doctors of the world should be paid more than athletes. For all of those people, many experts say the degree of difficulty is much higher for becoming a pro athlete, than for becoming a doctor. Professional salary should be graded in according with the difficulty of achievement. Athletic careers aren’t nearly as long as those of doctors, lawyers, etc. Other high paying professions have a longer career life than that of a pro athlete. Doctors, for example, have an average minimum career of 15 years. The average maximum career in the NBA is about 6 years, and in the NFL, it is half that number. Additionally, in professional sports, many times these athletes risk their health and perhaps, in extreme cases, death. Just like Darryl Stingley, a former NFL player, who was paralyzed while playing the game he loved s