As a Chicago-born data analyst with 10 years of NBA modeling experience, I’ve seen absurd spending in sports—but this? Napoli paying $7.5M for a single player in 2024? Let me break it down: no emotional hype, just cold stats. This isn’t about passion—it’s about misaligned incentives, flawed modeling, and the quiet math behind a club’s desperate gamble. Here’s what the numbers really say.