by Ron Spence
In the previous post, NHL SALARIES VS. OTHER MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS, I compared the average salaries of North America’s four major league sports.
This post compares the top NHL and NBA salaries (NHL salaries courtesy of Wikipedia. NBA salaries are courtesty of HoopsHype.).
KEVIN GARNETT'S HOME - courtesy of sportshometribune.com
In early September, Kevin Garnett purchased an 8,000+ square foot home in Concord, MA. Built in 1992, the giant $4.7 million home has 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and sits on 13 acres.
Due to the great discrepancy between the two sports, it’s difficult to do an apple to apple comparison, by listing the top 15 or 25 from each sport. What I decided to do, because this is a hockey website, is to do a random search through NBA teams and locate basketball players – in the same salary range – as the highest paid NHL players.
I have included Scouting Reports (courtesy of HoopsHype) to show that these players are not the cream of the NBA crop, and have shown where their salary ranks on their team’s payroll.
This, I think, is the most telling stat of all.
And, as I say, these were just random players picked:
SALARY - $6,860,000.00 - 4TH HIGHEST PAID ON THE WIZARDS
SALARY - $7,800,000.00 - 3RD HIGHEST PAID ON THE NETS
SALARY - $ 7,000,000.00 - 6TH HIGHEST PAID ON THE MAVERICKS
SALARY - $ 8,000,000.00 - 4TH HIGHEST PAID ON THE BULLS
SALARY- $ 9,000,000 - 4TH HIGHEST PAID ON THE SUNS
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Because all of the hockey salaries have not been decided (i.e. Mats Sundin, Marian Gaborik, etc.) I have just used Wikipedia’s numbers for now. I will include a final list in a month.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Don // Apr 5, 2009 at 8:49 pm
The thing you have to realize though is that in the NBA there are only 12 players on a team compared to the NHL were there are up to 23 players on a roster. With more players to pay the average payroll will be lower.
2 j // May 7, 2009 at 2:32 am
Were not talking economics – the point is who deserves it more? I’d like to see Garnett coming down the ice, missing teeth from ninety mile an hour frozen pucks to the face, take a stick across the arm, catch an elbow to his dome and still score..
Hockey is the only real sport – the hits of football, more finesse than b-ball, and boxing fights – i rest my case
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