![]() Then, multiply that by the average team salary in the 2020-2021 season, as of this writing $128,136,277 and sum. Divide a player's salary by the average team salary. Steph Curry is the highest-paid player, at a whopping 45.8 million. Divide by the total teams in the NBA that season. Salary-Cap Adjusted - Sum all NBA salaries for a given season. Inflation-Adjusted - Adjust each year of a player's career to 2020 dollars and sum. Obviously, Chris Bosh, Melo, and Dwight are tapped out in terms of trying to make the last list, despite being on the other two.Ī fun set of metrics looking at pay that we'll be revisiting more soon! Enjoy.Ĭareer-Earnings - sum the total salary for all players through the 2020-2021 NBA season. LeBron James is currently just behind Dirk Nowitzki, and Chris Paul is close as well. It will be hard for any modern NBA player to ever touch Patrick Ewing using this metric simply because he was one of the highest-paid players during the least restrictive salary-cap parts of NBA history. Kobe Bryant ‘s 49.5 million haul, while impressive, only put him in third place on the list of the NBA’s highest-paid players of 2015. In fact, both Ewing and MJ had seasons where they earned more than an entire "average" NBA team. Yet, it’s his endorsement deals, which includes a guaranteed 185 million over 13 years from Adidas, that keep Rose among the richest in the NBA. Before KG, players like Patrick Ewing and MJ could demand the most money in the NBA. After Kevin Garnett signed the longest and most lucrative contract in NBA history, the next CBA saw a change in max player pay. NameĪnd Patrick Ewing takes a commanding lead! In the earlier days of the NBA, teams had a salary cap but were not restricted on how much they could pay players. So what if we pretended every player made, in 2020 "salary cap dollars" what they did over their entire career. The modern NBA salary cap is over $100 million per team! In the early days of the star-driven NBA, it was below $10 million. Players are paid a proportion of the NBA salary cap. Another obvious point in movie grosses is the total number of screens a movie appears on. Let's go for one more fun movie argument. A few names bounce around, notably, Shaq overtakes Kobe. Honestly, kind of boring, the same ten names make up the list with KG still leading the charge. ![]() So, with the same logic, here are the top 10 all-time NBA earners adjusted for inflation, so their current total is in 2020 dollars. In fact, it's probably to say the site inspired my current moniker of "NerdNumbers" - the origin story of that was me simply typing combinations of words for stats and geek until I found an open domain! And a fun argument in all-time film grosses is adjusting for inflation. Nameīefore I was an NBA nerd, I was a bit of a film gross nerd. Going through the 2021 NBA season, here are the current top 10 all-time NBA earners. And a fun thing to examine is the all-time career earners. Thanks to Patricia Bender and sites like Basketball-Reference, Spotrac, and RealGM, we have a trove of data going back to 1985 - when the NBA instituted its first salary cap.
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