The Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green made a crazy claim that the NBA doesn’t want it’s players to be rich, despite signing two deals worth $182 million dollars within four years during his time in the sport.
The top level of basketball in the world also has the 25th highest-earner, as of June 2023, making over $30,000,000 per year whilst players such as Michael Jordan and LeBron James have broken the billionaire barrier.
In fact, the average salary earned is eight million dollars only 15 players are paid the minimum salary by the league (which is still enough to make them millionaires)
So, out of context it’s a bit of a strange comment from Green but, of course, context is the absolute key and he’s talking about after retirement.
This job is actually not set up for us to be wealthy after we’re done playing,” Green told Shaquille O’Neal on The Big Podcast with Shaq. “They way we’re taxed…
“It took my mom four years when I was growing up to make $100k. And I lose that a night because, what?”
However, Green also complained about fines imposed by the League and for that he isn’t going to attract much sympathy considering it’s well within the control of the players to behave.
