Real salary of Westbrook and others

[Jersey Boss]

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...-take-home-pay

Amazing how 28.5 gets pared down to less than 15. Yeah I know it is still a good wage, but interesting numbers on where it goes.

[traxx]

Wait, Curry gets paid more (gross) than LeBron? That doesn't seem right.

[Jersey Boss]

But his take home is greater and tops in the league( right now).

[SoonerDave]

Makes me think of lottery winners. They get the $100M win, but then take a ~$60M lump sum, then get the ~33% federal tax hit (~$20m), state (varying %) ~$6M, knocking that $100M down to $34M pretty darned quickly.

I'd still take it, however

[OKC_on_mines]

Makes me think of lottery winners. They get the $100M win, but then take a ~$60M lump sum, then get the ~33% federal tax hit (~$20m), state (varying %) ~$6M, knocking that $100M down to $34M pretty darned quickly.

I'd still take it, however

I've heard its just best to do the extended payout instead.

[Bellaboo]

I've heard its just best to do the extended payout instead.

I wouldn't, you never know how much time you have left on earth.

[d-usa]

I'm sure you could handle the remaining years with proper estate planning.

[Laramie]

These young players make more money in one season than the average American makes in a lifetime.

Just imagine a good coach (Donovan, Tyronn Lue, Rick Carlisle) whose job it is to critique some of these young millionaires; how do you approach, what do you say to these guys when the very person you coach makes 5 or 10 times your salary?

You get on a super players' bad side as a coach, you could get your pink slip & final pay off of your salary the next morning.