[paradigmnParticipant]

 I am sure we all know the basic NBA players that will lose the most $$$ during the lockout..but…to actually see what these dudes make every 2 weeks…well…it’s kinda depressing….lol

 

By Brian Reed
InvestingAnswers.com

The NBA labor agreement is far from resolved and the first two weeks of the regular season have already been cancelled.

Although it is hard to call this group of 10 multi-millionaires victims, it is also difficult to imagine losing a paycheck that amounts to an unfathomable fortune every two weeks. With that in mind, here are the 10 players who will miss out on the most money as the lockout lingers.

Methodology: During the 1998-99 lockout, players lost pay based upon games missed. So, if a player missed one game due to the lockout, it would have cost him 1/82nd of his salary. However, since all players have slightly different schedules, we calculated pay on a paycheck basis.

Players are only paid during the regular season and receive checks bi-weekly for work that occurs the previous two weeks. The 2011-12 NBA season was supposed to have started on Nov. 1 and end on April 18. During the course of the season, that can be divided into 13 bi-weekly paychecks. The numbers were calculated by equally dividing each player’s 2011-12 salary 13 times to find what they earn every two weeks during the season.

 

10. Joe Johnson

Hawks, $1,387,582.54 per paycheck: Atlanta’s $119 million man Johnson was one of the surprisingly large signings in 2010 and has been pointed out as an example why so many NBA teams are suffering financially. Even if the lockout makes Johnson suffer a bit this year, the future looks good. The contract will pay Johnson $18,038,573 in 2011 and increase from there through 2015 when he will earn $24.9 million.

9. Amar’e Stoudemire

Knicks, $1,401,361.92 per paycheck: Stoudemire is likely eager to get back on the court to jel with the new Knicks team that was swept by the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. The series was particularly hard for Stoudemire who played through injuries with disappointing results. Unfortunately, the cancelled preseason jeopardizes the jelling process with his teammates and he’s facing a cut into his $18,217,705 salary.

8. Carmelo Anthony

Knicks, $1,423,076.92 per paycheck: Since arriving from Denver, Anthony signed an extension with the Knicks and will make $18.5 million this season. Nice new neighborhood.

7. Pau Gasol

Lakers, $1,439,550 per paycheck: Sure, Gasol could spend the lockout performing surgery in his native Spain, but he is still unlikely to pull in the kind of cash he would make playing basketball. He is set to bankroll $18,714,150 this season, or $1.44 million per paycheck.

6. Dirk Nowitzki

Mavericks, $1,468,682.54 per paycheck: The lockout has to have put a damper on the celebratory summer for the reigning NBA Finals MVP and the champion Mavericks. The champs will lose momentum with the cancelled preseason, and losing the nearly $1.5 million Nowitzki earns every paycheck from his $19,092,873 annual salary has to hurt too.

5. Gilbert Arenas

Magic, $1,482,254.46 per paycheck: 2010 was a tough year for Arenas. He was traded to the Magic for Rashard Lewis after a troubled stint in Washington where he pleaded guilty of felony weapons charges, was suspended indefinitely by the NBA and spent 30 days in a halfway house. However, earning almost $1.5 million a paycheck and $19,269,308 annually has to take off a bit of the sting.

4. Kevin Garnett

Celtics, $1,630,769.23 per paycheck: Garnett will likely be chomping at the bit to avenge last season’s disappointing playoff loss to the Heat. While his numbers have dipped a bit in recent years, Garnett is still one of the most dominant power forwards in the game and his $21.2 million salary this season shows how much he means to the franchise. Yet, with his contract expiring at the end of the season, speculation is already bouncing around about Garnett’s future with the Celtics. The quicker the lockout can end, the quicker Garnett can silence critics and prove he is worthy of his $1.63 million bi-weekly paychecks.

3. Tim Duncan

Spurs, $1,638,461.54 per paycheck: Duncan didn’t exercise the Early Termination Option (ETO) in his contract that would have made him a free agent. Smart move. With Duncan’s paltry averages last season — 13.4 points and 8.9 rebounds — he probably wouldn’t command $21.3 million on the open market. He has one year left on his contract.

2. Rashard Lewis

Wizards, $1,704,000 per paycheck: Lewis signed a massive six-year, $118 million contract with the Magic in but was later traded to the Wizards for another player on the list, Gilbert Arenas. With two years left on his contract, Lewis is due $22,152,000 this season, so a lockout would be as disappointing to Lewis as his averages of 11.7 points and 5.1 rebounds last season were for the Wizards.

1. Kobe Bryant

Lakers, $1,941,846.15 per paycheck: Bryant is widely regarded as the best player in the league and he is paid accordingly. Last April he signed a three-year, $83.5 million extension that will continue to make him the highest paid player in the NBA. He also raked in $25 million endorsements last year, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt to miss out on an almost $2 million paycheck every two weeks.

 

 

[tli232]

This article added nothing to my life. It just told me which players had the highest salaries. 

Pretty fail.

[paradigmnParticipant]

 lol…ouch…sorry to disapoint…maybe I should be more like you and POST stuff that is FULL of GREAT information like some of your AWESOME POSTS!!! 

 

If I were in the NBA, I’d get fined for this

After watching pretty much all of the Lakers’ last two rounds, I’ve noticed that Pau Gasol gets the FEWEST borderline calls of any star-level player I’ve seen in these playoffs. I’m not saying that the refs miss big time calls all the time. Pau simply doesn’t get those foul calls that most other stars in the game get.

This is of course contrasted by Kevin Durant, who gets most of the possible calls.

If you guys have noticed this as well, why do you think this is the case?

http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/if-i-were-nba-id-get-fined 

OR THIS…

Mirotic controversy

Did anyone else just hear one of the commentators say Mirotic was from Serbia? That’s crazy!

http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/mirotic-controversy

GREAT POST BRO!!! Keep up the nice work!!!! 

 

 

 

[butidonthavemoney]

He’s sassing tli232…

You better fear tli232 or you’ll end up in his fucking basement.

Seriously, he can destroy you.

[apb540Participant]

Is tli232 a user that you made up or is he a real person? Cuz the picture is pretty over the top and he only appears randomly, followed by funny posts from "the late night crew." Just something I had always wondered but forget to ask. 

[Bmore_DCParticipant]

lmao…

i thought it was a good read…

[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

But I actually think tli is real. LeRoy exists, though he is probably not named LeRoy Jenkins and the incarnate of Gary Coleman. If he was, I think that he probably would be the most famous person in the world.

[butidonthavemoney]

I did not make up tli232. He’s one of the site’s admins and has been a popular subject on NBADraft.net since the glory days of John Bryant.

He rose to notoriety after trashing on a new user for introducing himself on the forum, prompting a response from OrangeJuiceJones. Since then, he’s become everybody’s favorite forum villian and earned the prestigious title "Ultimate Douche".

[apb540Participant]

Yea I remember tli232 from before I even joined the site and I’d just read forums. I knew he was an admin so I figured it was possible someone within the site might have made him up and put the gayest picture possible on there lol. Thanks for clearing it up for me thou. 

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

Rashard Lewis is the elephant in the room.

[ProudGrandpaParticipant]

Once again, I am not one of NoMoney’s fake accounts.

Just wanted to continue to make that clear.

[paradigmnParticipant]

 I am so slow….I read this and then I didn’t comment….I have now come back 5 minutes later to give u a thumbs up and a comment…because….it just hit me….lol…..DDDDDUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!…although….if Rashard Lewis is an elephant in the room….then Gilbert Areanas has to be a freakin BRONTOSAURAUS in the room!!!

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

@paradigmn

 

At least at one point, Gil looked like a superstar talent though. Knee injuries killed him. The days of Arenas hoisting up three’s from Maryland and walking away before the shot went into the net seem to be forgotten lol. Gilbert, though immature, was an unstoppable offensive player at one point. One time he roasted Kobe so bad, even Kobe said "he didn’t have a conscience" lol.

 

The crazy thing is that Gil didn’t even take as much as he could’ve… He actually left some money on the table in order to re-sign Jamison and Butler I think. Imagine if he would’ve pulled a Joe Johnson and took the max possible.

 

It’s unfair because knee injuries wrecked players like Arenas and Jermaine O’Neal, making the contracts they received look totally ridiculous. They both were actually VERY good players once.

[WizardofOzParticipant]

@IndianaBasketball

^^I agree.

I still think re-signing Arenas at that point was the right move, even though it turned out badly. At the time, he was just 26 years old, and he was one of the top offensive weapons in the game. He was injured, but it was an injury that countless other athletes have recovered from. 

And, I understand that what I’m talking about runs contrary to public sentiment. Management is supposed to know better. They’re supposed to know more and make smarter decisions than fans. But, what I’m also saying is that owners shouldn’t get to have it both ways. They shouldn’t sign players they KNOW aren’t going to perform to the level of their contract because they think fans will be upset if the player goes somewhere else, and then get to complain about the player not performing to the level of his contract.

With an Arenas or a Grant Hill — there’s some legitimate sympathy. Both guys had injuries that weren’t particularly serious. They just kept getting re-injured and/or having complications. **** happens. Portland gets no sympathy for the deal they gave to Roy. They knew his knees were bone on bone, but gave him a max contract anyone. I don’t want to hear any complaining from Portland. They knew what they were getting. And, in most of the bad contracts currently on the books — management knew (or should have known) what they were getting.

[paradigmnParticipant]

 I am looking at it from an owners perspective…and how much money they made back on their "investment".  Of course I have no concrete numbers….just my opinion.

No question GILBERT was on his way to superstardum….much more so than Rashard Lewis…..Gibert has averaged about 5 more points in his career than Rashard and obviously seemed as the better player….that being said…Rashard did help lead the magic to the finals….and we all know how much $$$$$ teams make the farther they go in the playoffs…and quite frankly….Gilberts gun situation and the way he degrades women (via twitter) I would rather have a Rashard Lewis on my team…even though Gilbert was or maybe is the BETTER player.  Either way…they are both waaaaaaaaay overpaid.

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

Roy’s knees were hit and Portland knew it. That’s why it took them so long to sign Roy to an extention. There was concern within the organization about his future. The fans were pissed though because they didn’t understand why it was taking Portland so long to sign him and the team wasn’t about to throw Roy’s situation under the bus considering he’d meant so much to the team.

That was a tough situation to be in for Portland management. It’s came back to bite everyone in the ass though. Portland’s cap will be handcuffed for the forseeable future and the fans have turned on Roy somewhat.

[Kinguy11Participant]

These players are losing the most money because they are the highest paid players in the league. Isn’t that obvious?

[frogmanParticipant]

In 2 weeks of playing basketball they make as much money as I will probably take 20 years to make.  I want to cry

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