{"id":60732,"date":"2025-08-11T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60732\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:25:11","slug":"nba-players-with-the-most-career-earnings-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60732\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players with the Most Career Earnings of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">Career Earnings: $528,695,302<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">To absolutely nobody&#8217;s shock, LeBron James headlines the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">Not only is he LeBron freaking James, he&#8217;s the longest-tenured player of the 2000s. The King entered the NBA in 2003, so he&#8217;s signed nine contracts across his 20 combined seasons on the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Cavs again and Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">LeBron, as Durant did in Golden State several years later, took a discount with Miami to allow a stronger roster. That strategy paid on-court dividends with two NBA titles, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">Over the last decade, James has prioritized short-term contracts that have maximized both his salary and flexibility (read: leverage).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium has-medium-font-size css-1vqr2el\">After collecting $48.7 million in 2024-25, he made history as the first player to surpass a half-billion dollars in NBA earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Career Earnings: $528,695,302 To absolutely nobody&#8217;s shock, LeBron James headlines the list. Not only is he LeBron freaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-60732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}