Owners Opt out of Collective Bargaining Agreement

[papabear]

Originally Posted by NBT

Uhmmmmm............next to baseball salaries (which are absolutly ridiculous), Basketball salaries are second worst, so what was your point?

Here's the NBA's rookie salary scale. Only the first two years are guaranteed. After that it's a team option (although almost no one give up on a high pick after 2 years.)

http://www.mynbadraft.com/NBA-Rookie-Salary-Scale-2007


According to this the first pick from last year will make about 18 million over the first four seasons. Matt Ryan just got 34 million gauranteed. There's a list of NBA guys making 13 to 20 million, but These are vets who are given "max" deals as determined by a percentage of the salary cap....at least I think that is how they coe up with the max numbers.

Compared to the NFL the NBA does a much better job of slotting rookies, and making sure the veterans who have paid there dues....get paid.