{"id":788372,"date":"2026-07-28T01:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:37:35","slug":"18-collegiate-players-will-earn-more-than-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788372\/","title":{"rendered":"18 collegiate players will earn more than LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:At least 18 men&#039;s college basketball players will earn more than LeBron James next season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;At least 18 men&#039;s college basketball players will earn more than LeBron James next season&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7468640\/2026\/07\/25\/lebron-james-salary-nba-college-basketball-nil\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">At least 18 men&#8217;s college basketball players will earn more than LeBron James next season<\/a>. The last time that was true? Try the 2002-03 season, when James was a senior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High in Akron, Ohio. Technically, any college hooper on scholarship &#8220;made&#8221; more than James at the time, though prominent players were getting more than room, board and tuition long before the current era of compensation in the millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 18 men&#8217;s college basketball players will earn more than LeBron James next season. The last time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3013,355,99],"class_list":["post-788372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}