The popularity of NBA has been rising in recent years. The sharp increase in capital injection and attention has also made the salary cap rise year by year. The league salary cap will reach a record high of 0.1236 billion dollars in the 22-23 season, Downs, Lillard, Booker, galan, Ayton, Zion and other stars all got tens of millions of dollars in contracts this summer, and jokiki got a five-year 0.27 billion-dollar sky-high contract that set NBA record.
Every time a variety of sky-high contracts are reported, it is shocking, but it is unknown that 24 years ago, there had already been an ultimate contract that was completely over-class, there was a star whose annual salary far exceeded the upper limit of the salary cap at that time, and the salary of other players in the team also had millions of differences with him. I believe that bar friends have guessed that name.
In the summer of 1996, Jordan’s contract with Bull expired. At that time, Knicks, who had 12 million dollars left in salary space, offered him a contract with an annual salary of 12 million + RMB 15 million. Seeing that the contract was about to be reached, bull complained to David Stern, then NBA President, about Knicks violation, but was rejected. The bull then put all his eggs in one basket and used Byrd clause to send Jordan a super contract of 30.14 million dollars in the first year and 33.14 million dollars in the next year. You should know that the salary caps in these two years are only 24.36 million and 26.9 million dollars. Jordan also did not live up to the bull, leading the team to win two more championships and completed the second great three successive championships. Then the question arises, how much annual salary can Jordan get today if it is converted according to the equivalent ratio of the salary cap in the new season?
Let the minister introduce the salary of the bull team in the 97-98 season to the bar friends (unit: US dollars, in brackets: convert the annual salary according to the salary cap of the 22-23 season):
1. Jordan 33.14 million (61,258,556)
(Note: in the 97-98 season, NBA has a salary cap but no tax system; Nowadays NBA has a salary cap + tax of double-restriction. The original author may have considered the impact of the tax, therefore, it is not directly converted according to magnification.)
Regular season averaged 28.7 points 5.8 rebounds 3.5 assists 1.7 steals 0.5 cap, playoffs 32.4 points 5.1 rebounds 3.5 assists 1.5 steals 0.6 cap
2. Tony kukchi 4.56 million (8,429,059)
Regular season averaged 13.3 points 4.4 rebounds 4.2 assists 1 steals 0.5 cap, playoffs 13.1 points 3.9 rebounds 2.9 assists 1.2 steals 0.5 cap
Ron Harper 4.56 million (8,429,059)
Average 9.3 points 3.5 rebounds 2.9 assists 1.3 steals 0.6 cap, playoffs 6.7 points 3.7 rebounds 2.3 assists 1 steals 0.9 cap
4. Dennis Rodman 4.5 million (8,318,150)
Average 4.7 points 15 rebounds 2.9 assists 0.6 steals 0.2 cap, playoff 4.9 points 11.8 rebounds 2 assists 0.7 steals 0.6 cap
5. Luke Langli 3,184,900 (5,887,217)
Regular season average 11.4 points 5.9 rebounds 2.8 assists 0.6 steals 1.1 cap, playoff 7.9 points 5 rebounds 1.9 assists 0.7 steals 0.9 cap
6. Scotty-Pippen 2,775,000 (5,129,526)
Regular season average 19.1 points 5.2 rebounds 5.8 assists 1.8 steals 1 Cap, playoffs 16.8 points 7.1 rebounds 5.2 assists 2.1 steals 1 cap
7. Bill Winnington 1.8 million (3,327,260)
Regular season average 3.5 points 1.7 rebounds 0.4 assists 0.1 steals 0.1 cap, playoffs 2.8 points 0.9 rebounds 0.2 assists 0.4 steals 0.1 cap
8. Scott-Burrell 1.43 million (2,643,323)
Regular season average 5.2 points 2.5 rebounds 0.8 assists 0.8 steals 0.5 cap, playoffs 3.8 points 2 rebounds 0.5 assists 0.9 steals 0.1 cap
9. Landy Brown 1.26 million (2,329,082)
Regular season average 4.1 points 1.3 rebounds 2.1 assists 1 steals 0.2 cap, playoff 0.6 points 0.6 rebounds 0.6 assists 0.1 steals 0.1 cap
10. Robert Parrish 1.15 million (2,125,749)
Not in battle
11. Jason-Kafei 850,920 (1,572,906)
The regular season averaged 5.3 points 3.4 rebounds 0.7 assists 0.3 steals 0.3 cap, not played in the playoffs
12. Steve Cole 750000 (1,382,358)
Regular season average 7.5 points 1.5 rebounds 1.9 assists 0.5 steals 0.1 cap, playoff 4.9 points 0.8 rebounds 1.7 assists 0.3 steals
13. Keith Booth 597,600 (1,104,650)
The regular season averaged 1.7 points 0.7 rebounds 0.2 assists, and the playoffs did not appear.
14. Zhu De-buichler 500000 (924,238)
Regular season average 2.7 points 1 rebound 0.7 assists 0.3 steals 0.2 cap, playoff 0.7 points 0.7 rebounds 0.2 assists 0.2 steals 0.1 cap
15. Joe Crane 272,250 (503,248)
Average regular season 2 points 1.7 rebounds 0.7 assists 0.1 steals 0.1 cap, not played in the playoffs