Found this site which has players career salaries upto last year. Some of the numbers look wrong as in the buyouts are not counted. So Deke & Bakers numbers should be higher. http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2005.html Matt Maloney - $12,562,635 Tracy McGrady - $65,053,730 Mike James - $4,583,931 Dikembe Mutombo - $108,738,924 Juwan Howard - $118,238,700 Vin Baker - $79,378,006 Jon Barry - $18,025,000 Bob Sura - $34,096,252 Clarence Weatherspoon - $43,190,200 David Wesley - $25,665,000 Moochie Norris - $15,753,500 Ryan Bowen - $4,610,882 Scott Padgett - $4,300,940 Yao Ming - $12,442,680 Charlie Ward - $32,430,500 I can see why Mike James wants to opt out to feed his family. Compared to the others he lives in the NBA trailer park.
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.
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.
Shaq -- $191,614,005 KG -- $147,413,420 Jordan -- $93,772,500 Olajuwon -- $99,364,188 Drexler -- $31,622,000
Some more Reggie Miller - $99,051,748 Karl Malone - $106,468,378 Charles Barkley - $43,456,000 Moses Malone - $28,218,250 Sam Mack - $2,102,098 Vernon Maxwell - $13,394,500 Calvin Murphy - $1,535,000 Gary Payton - $102,494,247 Scottie Pippen - $109,862,430 Otis Thorpe - $38,258,900
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 Code: 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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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.