Or career earnings in the 80’s-00’s timeframe

their 1 year contract dwarfs a typical #3+ and Role player multi-year contract too which is insane to think about.

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More than Marshawn Lynch made his entire NFL career

We will be looking at billion dollar contracts sometime in the 2030s at this rate. Absolutely insane.

And more than us in our lifetime lol

I’m pretty convinced this is the exact reason why older players hate on Gobert.

Crazier still is that Cooper Flagg’s rookie salary is more than LeBron earned in the first year of his first max extension with the Cavs

Yeah I don’t like people complaining about player’s salaries being so high overall

The players make 50% of the money from the league tickets, merch etc etc… The LEAGUE makes a shit ton of money and the owners make a shit ton of money..

It would be absolutely absurd and unfair if the players “only” made like 15 million max per year because that would mean the Owners and the league would make like 80% of the money generated from the best players in the entire worlds effort and work…

The NBA players deserve 50% of this money… they are in the 99.99999% of the entire world at thier skill… the billionaire owners are not and they make money off the players skill

The top three never really take Load management breaks. They are legit getting injured out there. Especially with that Steph whistle which is a reverse SGA whistle

Social media and talking heads complain about that rule a hell of a lot more than players do.

The fuck are you talking about? Almost everyone on this list missed time with a significant injury last year. The two that didn’t played 71 and 75 games.

And even with this factored in alot of the 5-10 top players in the league are “underpaid” compared to how much revenue they bring in for the owners of their respective franchise’s.

Fox is a big reason they beat the Thunder to even make the finals.

Also spurs were under the first apron. So it’s not like they were strapped for moves because of fox either.

the Fox slander has gone way overboard. He was playing in the finals on a bum ankle.

He did.  And that has value.  But on the other side of the ledger in this comparison, you have Wemby, Harper and Castle AND a leftover 20 million dollars.  I think it’s safe to say that has a lot more value. 

How? He’s 29, just made all-NBA 2nd team putting up 29/7/5, won Finals MVP two years ago, plays good defense, been on multiple deep playoff runs including a championship, and has played 65+ games or its equivalent in every year he’s been in the league except for one.

He’ll be 32 when his contract is over, how is that “crazy for years to come?”

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He’s the T-Mac of this generation (+MVP)

That was a fair contract when signed.

When it came time to sign his next contract in 2017 it was reported that Joe Lacob tried to low ball him and offer him less than the max before Bob myers stepped in and prevented it. Hilarious how he even thought that would end up okay especially considering he was on a really good low contract due to injuries

Steph is bigger than the Warriors franchise imo. Once he left/retired we will be back to being irrelevant.

And the valuation of the Warriors climbed from \(450M after Lacob bought the team to \)10B largely in part due to him.

Still underpaid

Zion is more liek WFR, work from restaurant

And Bradley Beal the original

They’re both robbing teams of money and hamstringing them by not playing regularly. It’s splitting hairs at this point

I mean, when Embiid plays he’s still incredible. Like he elevated Philly into a 3-1 comeback, while playing with a surgery cover thing.

He’s made of glass, so it is a “bad” contract, but I think AD might be worse. Also Jimmy depending on how he recovers. I’d rather have a good player that “could” stay healthy, than a player that just isn’t good anymore.

expiring contract next season.

Some team will give AD $50mil+ per year after his current deal

I mean this will change as other guys start signing their extensions lol

He almost certainly won’t be by the time we get to ²⁰²⁸⁄₂₀₂₉, though. 

Bro you are not thinking it through. There are a lot of guys who don’t have contracts yet for that season… 

I imagine several new contacts will be signed between now and 2028 that bump Fox down the list.

lol

Fear it, run from it. Overpaid Fox arrives just the same

Homie he’d be part owner 😂😂

Yeah he is. Honestly might be a better GM than Coach, which is crazy to say

I mean he’s been very smart, but it clearly has caught up to them. They can still be good but they have peaked already due to the cba.

He at least tries to earn it. Dude would play with a fresh stab wound 

Judging from his recent performance ? You have to.

Idk KD might be on here

Eh. Random google/facebook/etc dude pulling down a couple million a year with their total comp being in r/nba is not out of the question.

There are definitely people on here with more than 12 million in lifetime earnings. Pretty sure there are a couple NVidia employees still posting in this sub after making significantly more than that.