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Who are the NBA's 100 Million dollar men?
I'm trying to figure out all of the players (of all time) who have already earned over 100 Million dollars from their NBA contracts over the years. I'm not counting any money that will be earned in the future (so no Joe Johnson, Lebron, Wade, Melo, Durant, etc.). If they haven't already earned 100 Million dollars in the NBA, I'm not including them. And it has to be strictly NBA contract money (no shoe contract money, no money from advertisements, no overseas money, etc.)
Here is what I have so far.
Is there anyone missing?
Gilbert Arenas - $100.5M (10 years)
Michael Redd - $100.7M (11 years)
Eddie Jones - $101.3M (15 years)
Reggie Miller - $101.3M (17 years)
Theo Ratliff - $102.4M (16 years)
Jalen Rose - $102.4M (13 years)
Karl Malone - $104.1M (17 years)
Gary Payton - $104.3M (17 years)
Mike Bibby - $105.7M (13 years)
Hakeem Olajuwon - $107M (17 years)
Steve Nash - $107.3M (15 years)
Shawn Marion - $107.5M (12 years)
Antoine Walker - $108.1M (13 years)
Kenyon Martin - $108.3M (11 years)
Scottie Pippen - $109.2M (17 years)
Brian Grant - $109.8M (13 years)
Antonio McDyess - $114M (16 years)
David Robinson - $116.5M (15 years)
Baron Davis - $117.6M (12 years)
Allan Houston - $117.6M (13 years)
Rashard Lewis - $117.7M (13 years)
Patrick Ewing - $119.9M (16 years)
Anfernee Hardaway - $120.5M (14 years)
Zydrunas Ilgauskas - $124.5M (14 years)
Antawn Jamison - $124.7M (13 years)
Elton Brand - $126.1M (12 years)
Vince Carter - $134.1M (13 years)
Grant Hill - $134.4M (17 years)
Paul Pierce - $137.4M (13 years)
Michael Finley - $138.6M (15 years)
Dirk Nowitzki - $141.3M (13 years)
Dikembe Mutombo - $143.7M (18 years)
Alonzo Mourning - $143.9M (16 years)
Stephon Marbury - $151.1M (13 years)
Allen Iverson - $154.5M (14 years)
Rasheed Wallace - $156.8M (16 years)
Jermaine O'Neal - $159.2M (15 years)
Tracy McGrady - $161.6M (14 years)
Ray Allen - $168M (15 years)
Jason Kidd - $174.5M (17 years)
Chris Webber - $178.2M (15 years)
Tim Duncan - $183.5M (14 years)
Kobe Bryant - $196.2M (15 years)
Kevin Garnett - $270.1M (16 years)
Shaquille Oneal - $292.2M (20 years)
Michael Jordan should be on the list too, but I'm not sure exactly how much he earned. It was somewhere around $120M over 15 years. If anyone knows the exact number, let me know.
Magic Johnson wasn't even close. A lot of the quality players from the 80's, early 90's and before then never ended up making much money unless they dragged out their careers through the mid to late 90's when GM's started overpaying everyone if they were remotely good.
To give you an idea of how little players were getting paid back then, in 1981, Magic Johnson signed a 25 year/$25 Million contract, and that was the highest paying contract in sports history at the time, and I'm sure it was the longest too. The highest paid NBA basketball players at the time were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone and they were each making $1 Million dollars per year. The league minimum was only $65,000.
Thanks for the info David, and great points. I knew Jordan's second contract was an 8 year deal worth $25 Million, and then I think management overcompensated for how little they paid him for all of those years by giving him a one year deal worth $30M, followed by another one year deal worth $33M. For some reason, I thought he had a third $30 Million dollar deal after that, but I guess not. I'll scratch MJ's name off of the list.
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8 Answers
- DavidLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
According to basketball-reference.com, Jordan's earnings from 1985 on were just over $90 million. It's missing his rookie season which would have added about $500k. Of that $90 million, $63 million of it was earned during his last two years with the Bulls.
Somebody mentioned Magic Johnson. His highest earning year was about $3 million. Total earnings were probably in the area of $25 million for his career. Before someone mentions Larry Bird, he was probably in the same neighborhood as Magic.
It wasn't until about the mid-nineties that huge contracts started being routine. Case in point-on your list is Patrick Ewing, but he had only reached $35 million in career earnings his first 10 years in the league.
One can make an argument about whether today's stars are better on the court, but there is no argument that they are better paid.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Its the two Juwan Howard or Shaq (the two in 1996). whilst Howard have been given a 7 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, $one 0 five million contract with the Washington Wizards (nicely-called Bullets then), Shaq have been given a 7 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, $one hundred twenty million contract with the l. a. Lakers.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Proof athletes are overpaid. Nobody deserves to make >$100 mill for playing a game they love.
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- 1 decade ago
Juwan Howard got a 100M contract that he didnt live up to. Same can be said about Shawn Kemp.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Damn That's alot!