The Spanish Newspaper Sport published these days a top 20 ranking of the top salaries in European basketball. If these rankings are always a bit of a mixture of guessing, rumors and some official sources, I don’t want to hide this information and so I give it to right here.
Ah yeah, and one additional thought, of course all the mentioned salaries are net of taxes and in Euros. Here is the Top10 of the list that has been published.
- Sarunas Jasikevicius (Panathinaikos) 4.2mio
- Theodoros Papaloukas (CSKA) 3.5mio
- Ramunas Siskauskas (CSKA) 2.5mio
- Arvydas Macijauskas (Olympiakos) 2.2mio
- Lazaros Papadopoulos (Real) 2.0mio
- Alexei Savrasenko (CSKA) 2.0mio
- Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos) 1.9mio
- J.R. Holden (CSKA) 1.85mio
- David Anderson (CSKA) 1.8mio
- Nikola Vujcic (Maccabi Tel Aviv) 1.7mio
As you can see, CSKA must have a monster budget with all these top 10 salaries and you still have three other players (Zisis, Smodis and Langdon) in the ranking from 10 to 20.
Ummmm…to my best knowledge some of the numbers here are way off. Vujcic isn’t making 1.7 euro. Never heard how much Savrasenko is making in CSKA but I totally don’t see why paying him 2 mil… Big guy, Russian…whatever. He’s not 2 mil. Lazos should be making more than 2 mil (was asking 3 at some point of the summer) and if not his agent should be banned for life from this job. I think 4.2 for Saras includes the money that was paid for the Warriors, if indeed 4.2 is the right figure.
Sarunas’s 4.2 is a correct figure, and it does not include the money for the warriors
Saras is making 3.2 million a year not 4.2, the above number probably includes his 2.8 million dollars buyout from the Warriors.
Siskauskas has a 2 mil contract. Again, the 2.5 mil number includes his 500,000 euros buyout.
Papadopoulos’ contract number is correct at 2 mil euros. At his current form, he is not worth it though
Nikola Vujcic makes only a modest 1.5 million DOLLARS not euros a year (has even said so himself in a recent intervies)
Diamantides’ contract is 5 mil for three years, so that 1.9 mil number is a bit off.
Josh Childress is the highest paid ever with 5.0 million this year and Marcus Brown is the highest long standing player. He was getting 2.5 million per season back in 2005 way before these guys you mentioned in 2007 and has been getting at least 1 mil euros per year over the last 6 years of his career.
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