If ball handling were so important the average height of basketball players wouldnt be 6'7. That's simple logic, how the fcuk are you not getting this?!? The NBA would be littered with players 5'6, 5'8, 6'7, 6'1, 5'10 like soccer & other sports are, where 'skill' is the PRIMARY skill. US Sports just seem like genetic breeding grounds where the main thing is how big you are. Recently, a British Olympic hammer thrower joined an NFL team & admitted he'd never even WATCHED a game, let alone played. Lmao, fucking joke.
NBA players are crazily well-paid but soccer players are too & there's 100x times more of them making crazy money. Just Manchester City alone will have a dozen players making at least $1M per month & another dozen making half a million. The top 10 Gk's in the World will earn crazy money but obviously not Messi money.