Tag: Highest Paid Players

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players In 2017-2018

    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.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players Heading Into the 2016-2017 Season

    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.

  • Non-Quarterback Players With $100 Million Contracts

    Non-Quarterback Players With $100 Million Contracts

    With a huge new contract from the Miami Dolphins, Ndamukong Suh joins Albert Haynesworth, J.J. Watt, Larry Fitzgerald and Calvin Johnson in the exclusive group of non-quarterbacks that have been signed to a contract worth $100 million or more.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players in the 2014-2015 Season

    Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players in the 2014-2015 Season

    The top 10 of highest paid NBA players is always a list that creates a lot of discussion, as opinions differ about those who “deserve” the money, players in their prime like LeBron James and Chris Paul, and those who are getting overpaid, especially when they’re on a steep decline, like Joe Johnson and maybe Kobe Bryant as well.

  • Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players in the 2013-2014 Season

    Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players in the 2013-2014 Season

    Among the top 10 highest paid players in the NBA this season, we find three from the Miami Heat (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh), two from the Los Angeles Lakers (Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol), two from the New York Knicks (Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudemire), another one from the five boroughs (Joe Johnson), a Dallas Maverick (Dirk Nowitzki) and another Texas-based player in Dwight Howard.

  • Highest Paid Players & Best Paying Teams in Serie A

    Italian football is going through a slimming down period, including the giants of the league. Juventus, the champions, were the only club to significantly increase their wage bill, which is led by Gianluigi Buffon who makes over €6 million a season, ranked for highest in the Serie A along with Daniele De Rossi of Roma and Wesley Sneijder of Inter.

  • The Eagles Gambling Big With New Vick Contract

    Image: Source About to begin his third season with the Philadelphia Eagles, this time declared before the season as the team’s starting quarterback, Michael Vick got a nice bonus in the form of a $100 million for six years contract, 40 million of them guaranteed. A long way since being released from Leavenworth two years […]

  • The Top Ten Highest Paid NFL Players in 2011

    Just over two weeks before the 2011 NFL season kicks off. Unlike the NBA (for now), things were resolved relatively quickly. Too much money was to be lost. And speaking of money, here are the ten highest paid players in the NFL this coming season – all of them quarterbacks or defensive linemen.

  • The Highest Paid Baseball Players in 2011

    The nine MLB players making over 20 million dollars in 2011, most of them without producing the expected numbers. And yes, three of them are from the New York Yankees.