NBA The base of the Wolves collect 17 million dollars
De among the five Spanish players who will participate in the NBA this year, the base of the Timberwolves, Ricky Rubio, be the one with the highest base salary, 17 million dollars (14 million euros), as well as being the third highest paid of the Minnesota squad.
Total, the wage bill of Rubio, Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka, and the Hernangmez brothers (Juancho and Willy) will be this year almost 37 million of dollars (30 million euros). But there are big differences in the list.
Gasol, who last season was the Raptors’ second highest paid player with $ 25.5 million of base salary, this to has signed with the Lakers for 2.5 million of dollars. Which makes him the ninth player on the payroll of the Los Angeles team.
But it is not just Gasol who starts the season with a substantial pay cut. His former teammate in the Raptors, the Hispanic-Congolese Serge Ibaka, 31, has also traveled lighter to his new home, Los Angeles Clippers to be in the company of another former Raptor, Kawhi Leonard.
If in last season in Toronto, Ibaka was the third highest paid player with a contract of $ 23.2 million, in the Clippers, the pvot will be fifth on the payroll with $ 9.2 million.
The salary cuts by Gasol and Ibaka leave the 29-year-old Catalan Rubio as the highest paid Spaniard in the NBA. Not only that, the return this year to the Timberwolves, the team with which he landed in the North American professional league in 2011, has allowed him to improve on the terms of the contract with his previous team, the Phoenix Suns.
Last season with the Suns, Rubio had a base salary of $ 16.2 million, $ 800,000 less than what Minnesotans will pay you this year. But it is also that the two-year contract with the Timberwolves stipulates that next season increase your payroll to $ 17.8 million.
Who has also improved from one year to the next is Rubio’s teammate in the Timberwolves, Madrid Juancho Hernangmez, 25 years old. Power forward will be the sixth highest paid of the new Minnesota draft, with a base salary of $ 6.49 million.
Hernangmez has a three-year contract with the Timberwolves valued at a total of $ 21 million, so that next season he will earn 7 million and in 2022-2023 the figure will rise to 7.5 million dollars.
His 26-year-old brother Willy begins his first season with the New Orleans Pelicans this year with a base salary of $ 1.7 million. Pvot is currently without a contract for next season, when he will become a free agent.
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