• I can think of no definition of the "professions" that includes laboring at games. Basketball players, like other compensated athletes, are sweated workers who are paid high wages.

to outsiders, and both have employees that are reviled for being overpaid. Both recruit new top tier talent with ferocity only to lose their prospect a few years down the road to a higher paying/more competitive competing firm or team. Both are professions where the most cold hearted and driven succeed, while both also requires such success to come with many sacrifices. Finally, both are currently in a state that can be characterized as dismal.

• No, the labor markets are not alike. Schoolyards are full of poor children falsely believing that they have a chance to become highly-paid, short-lived athletic stars. They are not full of poor children studying hard in order to become lawyers. The primary source of the deception is societal over-interest in athletics. Such as the interest you are showing now, which is helping others behind you not to follow you on the road to law school.

• This comparison is literally puerile. Analogy's purpose is to find deep similarities that illuminate mechanism, not to provide superficial correspondences. If you had something to say about how to reorganize law firms you wouldn't need to waste four hundred words on how the very different businesses that are basketball teams in a league should be governed. Fan radio ranting has no role to play here. The route to improvement is to start again without the analogy and develop the idea concerning the primary subject of inquiry.