Mr. Predictable

here are the top 10 highest paid players this season and approximately what they are making... per year.


1. KG - 25 million
2. Shaquille O Neal - 24 million
3. Alonzo Mourning - 21 million
4. Juwan Howard - 21 million
5. Karl Malone - 19 million
6. Scottie Pippen - 19 million
7. Rasheed Wallace - 16 million
8. Dikembe Mutumbo - 15.5 million
9. Chris Webber - 15 million
10. Allan Houston - 14 millon

This does not include Paul Pierce's new contract

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1. KG - 25 million
2. Shaquille O Neal - 24 million
3. Alonzo Mourning - 21 million
4. Juwan Howard - 21 million
5. Karl Malone - 19 million
6. Scottie Pippen - 19 million
7. Rasheed Wallace - 16 million
8. Dikembe Mutumbo - 15.5 million
9. Chris Webber - 15 million
10. Allan Houston - 14 millon
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Alonzo, Howard, Pippen, Mutombo...Now thats real stupid to pay that much for these guys.
I thought Zo retired. lol, usto be amazing, howard, pippen aint the same no more and neither is mutombo

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not really stupid to pay that for the 2nd best center in the NBA before a out of nowhere illness....

H2O

This list isn't very representative of things, since guys contract's increase every year. Example, by the end of his contract, Allan Houston will be making over $20 million dollars. The list should really be organized by total contract value, like 7 years, $100 million.

Austin Kent

That is ridiculous.

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Ben

Hell yEAh!!! some players simply do not deserve to even earn a dime, yet alone millions!!

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Petey

I hope someone wanting to clear some space offers the Nets some nice package of picks, and decent / young players for him.

Even more so, I think they gotta trade him this year, because with the expansion draft, he might get picked and get alot of talent in return for a 1 year - expiring contract.

-Petey

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Porn_Player

Webber is probably the only guy on that list who desrves that much mutumbo is doin nuffin. mourning wud be worth it if it wasnt fo his illness

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HKF

Man Rod Thorn is a genius. Trading for Mutombo was brillant. He only has two years left on his contract and I see them exposing him in the expansion draft, because The Nets have shown they don't need him. Either way his salary comes off the books and they have enough to sign Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson to extensions or he leaves early and they have the cap room to play with. What a great trade.

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ballocks

yep, i love defining "great trades" by considering all the various contracts...and salary cap/luxury tax implications... and other collective bargaining agreement jargon.

i love the new nba. i feel like i'm in financial accounting. what a great feeling.

give me more.

WoGiTaLiA1

Me too ballocks, I love the NBA of the new Millenium, one where a trade is measured by how much money it saves a team or will free in cap space, as to who or how good the player is and how he will improve the team. I love the NMA, National Money Assosciation, where Basketball is really just a side issue to the the real game, its the new age cheerleaders.