If you come from any other industry you would expect that the top basketball players salaries are paid to the top NBA players at the time. In sports, this just is not the case. Since players sign long contracts at the time when they are most in demand and since the NBA has a per year salary cap, contracts are often negotiated that go on far longer than is prudent. Therefore, players who make the most money in any one year may not be the best players or even very good players, they are often just players who signed contracts at the right time. What do basketball players earn? This is an assembled list of the top 10 NBA salaries for the 2008-2009 season.
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