Players Career Salaries

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Matt Maloney - $12,562,635
Yao Ming - $12,442,680

 

It's good to see that the two biggest career earners are both the kind of guys who give a lot of that money back via worthy causes.

 

We could field, by ourselves, a starting five and sixth man on the "all-larceny" team! One might point out that we have not been the victim of most of this past salary, but we had to trade away some of the more prolific burglars in Mo Taylor and Kelvin Cato to pick up some of the above talent. From an alumni standpoint, don't forget about the Shandon Anderson sign and trade for Glen Rice - both Houston and New York got taken on that deal.

 

Does this mean he is still on the payroll?????

 

The crime of "larceny" is a really serious crime which has extremely negative consequenses. People get killed and people's lives get ruined.

Juwan Howard, Mo Taylor and Kelvin Cato were professional employees whose employer (Les Alexander) agreed to pay them based on what they could contribute to his business.

 

is this in US Dollars or Japanese Yen??

 

No, Maloney is off the book now.

 

Would be interesting to see the totals for some of the big name guys, like Shaq and KG.

 

Shaq -- $191,614,005
KG -- $147,413,420
Jordan -- $93,772,500
Olajuwon -- $99,364,188
Drexler -- $31,622,000

 

Matt Maloney actually won a playoff series.

 

I dont remember the exact amount, but it is true that the Rockets paid him last year...that was the last year of hhis deal.

and this site is better for salary information.

http://www.dfw.net/~patricia/contracts

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Houston Rockets           Date    # of      total 
[u]Player                   signed   years     salary     misc          FA[/u]
Jon Barry .............  9/16/04    1    $1.8 million               '05
Ryan Bowen ............  9/29/04    1      minimum                  '05
Torraye Braggs ........  3/19/05    1      minimum                  '05
Dikembe Mutombo .......  10/9/03    2     $8.6 million              '05
Scott Padgett .........   9/1/04    2    $1.76 million       xp-opt '05
Vin Baker .............  8/18/04    2    $7.35 million              '06
Mike James ............   8/5/04    3    $10.23 million       p-opt '06
Clarence Weatherspoon .  7/20/01    5    $27,228,000                '06
David Wesley .......... 7/1/97,7/27/01  7+2  $22 mill + $9,405,000  '06
Yao Ming .............. 10/20/02    4    $18,037,586    rc          '06
Moochie Norris ........  10/9/01    6    $22.7 million              '07
Charlie Ward ..........   8/9/04    3    $5.61 million              '07
Juwan Howard ..........  7/16/03    6    $36.9 million        p-opt '08
Bob Sura ..............   8/9/04    4    $14.4 million              '08
Luther Head ...........   7/1/05    4        ???        rc    t-opt '08+09
Tracy McGrady ......... 8/3/00,11/1/04  7+3  $92.88 mill + $63 mill '10 

 

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mucho gracias nuggien

that helped tons.

 

Wow, those numbers really put in perspective our desperation for a decent point guard. Here's hoping that we finally get it right this year.

 

Yeah, but factor in the endorsement $ and it looks more like this:

Jordan -- $493,772,500

 

gentlemen... I give you the reason we had the lockout in 1998 !

 

Didnt Jordan have a 20 some mil per contract during mid 90s?