Recently, the US media also gave statistics on the historical total salary rankings of NBA players. Among the TOP5 lists of this list, the Thunder star Paul also occupies a place. In his NBA career so far, Paul has earned a total player salary of $260 million, and now he is also ranked fifth in the league's historical salary list. In addition, since Paul's NBA player contract has two seasons left, so long as Paul finishes the remaining player contract safely, his total career salary will eventually exceed 300 million US dollars. The 4th place on the
list is the "big shark" O'Neal. Throughout O'Neal's entire career, with the exception of the NBA rookie period and the last year of his career, O'Neal's contract annual salary reached tens of millions of dollars in the rest of the season. And O'Neal has also received 20 million NBA season salaries for many years. Therefore, O'Neal has earned a total of 286 million US dollars in his 19 years of NBA career.
third place is the current Lakers’s signature star James. As of now, James’ total salary in the NBA is 306 million US dollars, which is much higher than other NBA stars of his time. It is worth mentioning that in the next two seasons, James will also be able to take away about 80 million player salaries. If the current player contract expires, James still intends to continue to play on the NBA court, then James' final total salary will exceed 400 million US dollars.
is the legendary Lakers "Black Mamba" Kobe Bryant. He has been playing for the Lakers throughout his career. He also received the treatment level of a superstar in terms of salary contract. Kobe's entire career finally earned 323 million US dollars. Real money, and the annual salary contract for multiple seasons has led the league. In the entire NBA league, Kobe's current total salary is worthy of the top two on the list.
was finally the 1995 NBA lottery star Garnett. Although Garnett's career honors are not as good as Kobe, James, and O'Neal, in the comparison of contract salary, Garnett is the biggest winner on the list. According to the statistical inventory of season salary, Garnett earned a total of 334 million US dollars in the 21 years of his player career, thus successfully ranking the top of the NBA player's historical salary list!
