Expected No. 1 NBADraft pick Cade Cunningham will make an estimated $36.8 million from his rookie contract.
A group of new athletes will join the NBA fraternity on Thursday night as the league holds its annual draft.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } For players, the team that drafts them can have a major impact on how they develop as basketball players, but it also can have a huge impact on their salaries. What number draft pick a player is determines how much money he will earn on his rookie contract. This is due to the NBA’s rookie wage scale, which assigns dollar amounts to specific draft slots. The higher a player is drafted, the more lucrative their overall contracts are.
Here are the estimated contracts for the first round selections of the 2021 NBA draft, according to contract monitoring site Spotrac.Guaranteed: $15.4 millionPick No. 4Total value: $25 million
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