aaron williams has the most expensive contract in the nba.
who has the most expensive contract in the nba?
aaron williams
the highest-paid nba players by season has recently eclipsed $40 million. larry bird was the first player to earn $5 million or more with a salary of $7,070,000 in the 1991-92 season. magic johnson became the first player to earn $10 million or more in the 94-95 season with a salary of $14,660,000. patrick ewing became the first player to earn $15 million or more in the 95-96 season with a salary of $18,724,000. michael jordan was the first nba player to sign a contract worth over $20 million and in fact it exceeded $30 million as well in a season; this was a record he had held for 15 years. during the 1997–98 season, jordan earned $33,140,000, which still stands as the most any nba player has earned on a 1-year contract. jordan also holds the record for the second largest 1-year contract at $30,140,000 in the 1996-97 season. kobe bryant become just the second player to reach this milestone when the 2013–14 season began. lebron james became the third in the 2016–17 season. stephen curry became the first player to eclipse $40 million per year when he signed a record 5-year contract worth $201 million in 2017, starting with $34,682,550 in the 2017-18 season and ending with the largest earnings in the 2021-22 season with a record payout of $45,780,966.
highest-paid nba players by season
in 2005, the nba agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement (cba). the cba included an amnesty clause provision allowing nba teams to release one player without his contract counting against the nba's luxury tax threshold. the clause did not negate a player's contract, a team's obligation to pay a player, or a contract's impact on the salary cap; it merely made it possible to remove a released player's salary from luxury tax calculations on a one-time basis. the clause benefited teams that were in danger of facing the luxury tax, which was a penalty paid by teams with payrolls exceeding a certain threshold. because the knicks were expected to use the amnesty clause to waive houston due to his expensive contract and injury woes (as of the 2005 offseason, two years and $40 million remained on his contract), the amnesty clause was dubbed the "allan houston rule." after houston assured his team that he would retire if his knee problems recurred in training camp that fall, the knicks chose not to use the amnesty clause to release him; instead, they released forward jerome williams.
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