5-time NBA champ Kobe Bryant has a huge two-year $48.5 million dollar contract, but after news hit of the NBA's new multi-billion dollar television deal, The Black Mamba isn't very sympathetic with owners who claim they're going broke paying their players. 

With CBA negotiations looming and the NBA finalizing a new $24 billion deal, Kobe spoke to CBS Sports about how he thinks the two situations correlate. 

"Athletes are the ones that are in the public eye the most," Bryant said. "And so their salaries are constantly talked about, so it's very easy to look at the athlete and say, 'You should be doing more and you should be taking less,' when the reality is that your market value is so much higher than what people understand." 

"It's very easy to look at the elite players around the league and talk about the money they get paid, compare that with the average (salary in America), but we don't look at what the owners get paid, the revenue they generate off the backs of these players." 

The NBA owners and players reconvene to discuss the collective bargaining agreement in 2017, with each party having the option to opt out of the current agreement. 

Source: NBC