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10 Highest Paid NBA Players Heading Into the 2018-2019 Season
For the first time in the league’s history, all the players in the NBA’s top 10 highest paid player list will make $30 million or more in one season. The 2018-2019 list, which includes superstars like LeBron James, Stephen Curry and James Harden alongside less heralded players such as Mike Conley, features two teams with […]
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Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players In 2017-2018
This year’s list of the NBA’s top 10 highest paid players includes only four who were on it last season: DeMar DeRozan, LeBron James, James Harden and Russell Westbrook. The rising salary cap and players reacting accordingly is causing a great turnover when it comes to the top earners list.
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Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players Heading Into the 2016-2017 Season
The list of the NBA’s top 10 highest paid players for the 2016-2017 season consists of eight players who signed a new contract or extended a current one this summer, taking advantage of the new TV money and the huge rise in the salary cap. As a result, the league also has its first $30 million man in almost 20 years, with a massive change in the top 10 compared to previous seasons.
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Brandon Roy & Gilbert Arenas – Highest Paid Players Without Even Playing
The wonders of the amnesty clause mean an NBA player gets released from his team but still paid in full, only without counting against the cap. Gilbert Arenas ($22.3 million) and Brandon Roy ($17.7 million) didn’t play a single minute of basketball for the teams paying them this season, which didn’t stop them from being two of the highest paid players in the NBA.
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Kobe Bryant Preventing Los Angeles Lakers From Rebuilding
Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in. Michael Corleone said that in Godfather three. Shaquille O’Neal compared Bryant once to Sonny Corleone, but the one getting pulled back in here are the Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of finally getting rid of a cap-crippling contract, they decided to give a player who will be 36 by the time next season begins a two-year extension that keeps him as the highest player in the NBA.
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10 Highest Paid Players in the NBA
People always care most about how much others make, especially when it involves athletes, like these NBA stars. LeBron James might be the best player in the league, but he isn’t even the highest paid player on the Miami Heat. The Knicks, with Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, have two among the 10 highest paid […]