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NBA: The NBA ‘hallucinates’: the mascot of the Nuggets earns… More than half a million dollars a year!

LThe NBA is a show that breaks more and more borders. The matches are more than basketball clashes and the show reaches other limits. One is pets, that have become a dream job in view of the annual amounts they manage in the best basketball league in the world.

Rocky the mountain lion, mascot of the Nuggets, is the highest paid in the NBA, according to a study by ‘Sports Business Journal’. He has a salary of $625,000 a year, an amount that exceeds that of many basketball players in many parts of the world. He narrowly outranks the other highly paid NBA cheerleader, Harry the Eagle of the Atlanta Hawks, who earns $600,000.

The most important point is that the study also indicates that they usually earn about $60,000 a year as a professional NBA team mascot. Above that amount there are also Benny ‘The Bull’ with $400,000, Go the gorilla with $200,000 and Hugo ‘The Hornet’ with $100,000.

To put into context what those amounts mean, a WNBA player earns $102,000 a year as median salary. A true yardstick of what the show means in the NBA and what it generates within the experiences of a game.

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