Steph Curry And Chris Paul S New Contracts Will Propel Them To An Extremely Elite Earnings Club With Lebron James

It’s the second contract in excess of $200 million Curry has signed. His current deal, worth $201 million over five years, ends at the end of next year. In the final year of Curry’s new deal (the 2025-26 season), he’ll make $59.6 million.  With the signing, Curry and Paul will join LeBron James as the only players to earn more than $400 million on the court throughout their careers.  James has already made more than $349.3 million from NBA salaries over his career. He has around $85.5 remaining on his contract. And he’s still playing at a high level, so it’s not entirely out of the question that he could reach half a billion dollars in on-court earnings.  Paul, who entered the league two years after James, has made just a little over $300 million. His newest contract with the Suns will top him off at $420 million by the time it’s through. Curry is well behind James and Paul (and several other players) in terms of total earnings right now, with about $212 million earned. That difference makes sense; Curry joined the league in 2009, four years after Paul and six after James. However, by the end of his new deal, Curry will easily surpass the $400 million mark.

Who Is The NBA’s Highest Single-Season Earner?

These massive deals for superstars are incredibly lucrative, but as of right now, the highest single-season salary adjusted for inflation still belongs to a contract from 1997-98. That’s when the Chicago Bulls paid Michael Jordan $33.14 million for his last one in Chicago. Accounting for inflation, Michael made the same as $55.8 million that season

Curry will surpass that in modern dollars by the final year of his new contract. And along the way, he’ll reach a financial pinnacle that only an elite few will manage.