• I experienced and coexisted with basketball for a long time, for more than (25) years. I accompanied teams and clubs in their foreign participation as a media delegate, and I knew many secrets of the game. I lived with winning and losing, and lived with the stars and talents of this game, and listened to them and their suffering and concerns with the game. And in the financial returns they get, and the player’s career may end and he has not achieved a small part of his dreams, or at least buy a house for him while he retires from playing, and the current situation may be much better than the previous one.
• I coexisted with more than one generation in the game, and each generation has its own ideas and ambitions. I realized that talents and stars are a rare currency in basketball, and that talents may not last because of the lack of incentives and temptations for continuity.
• Many stars left the big gate because their clubs were not interested in the game and preferred to stay away.
• Professionalism is required in the coming period, and it is the main pillar in reaching gold and podiums and applying professionalism standards with accuracy and high quality. Most international players are linked to jobs and the agencies they work for may not allow them to participate in external and internal posts.
• One naturalized professional player may make the difference in foreign participation and access to the podium, as the International Basketball Federation allows the participation of a naturalized foreign player.
• Talents for basketball and various games have become scarce despite all the support provided by the Ministry of Sports and sports federations. This may be the reason for focusing heavily on (crazy) football, as fans of various games like to call it by this name, after it stole the limelight from them.
• There is a huge difference in players' contracts in football and various games, and there is no room for comparison in that.
• The Ministry has taken it upon itself in recent years to develop various games, implement a system of governance, and set material incentives for clubs to motivate both the champion and all participating clubs. The value of the financial incentive is calculated according to the position of the club that it has achieved. 30% of it is on the game, the player may not get the incentive that is equal to the effort and giving he made throughout the season, and these material incentives are disbursed by club administrations on football, the Olympic Committee in the first Saudi Games granted material incentives to the champions in their accounts directly in fairness to them The ministry may have a point of view that club administrations have large financial requirements and obligations, whether in contracting with technical equipment, medical devices, and match advances, so it left the options for disbursing them to club administrations.
• In the end, I want to reach that the players of the different games suffer from part-time and the lack of a professional system for them, such as football, and the financial returns that they get are weak and do not keep pace with the aspirations of reaching the podiums.
Sami Maghamsi