By the time Kevin Garnett finishes out his two-year, $16 million contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, he will have been banking NBA salaries for more than half of his life.
No wonder he tops the list of the league's biggest all-time earners.
He's got company at the top, though, and three of the other top-five NBA cash collectors are still active. The reported $1.4 billion NBA teams doled out on the first day of 2015 free agency proved something these five players have known for a while: There's never been a better (or more lucrative) time to be an NBA star.
We've pulled together the top five on-court earners in NBA history through the 2014-15 season who, combined, have made nearly $1.4 billion all by themselves.
Here's how they did it.
5. Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks
Career Earnings: $212,038,467
It's rare for a player who could be rightly described as chronically underpaid to make over $200 million in a career. But Dirk Nowitzki is a rare dude.
Rare because he's never even really contemplated leaving the Dallas ...
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Article written by Grant Hughes
Million Dollar Men: How the NBA’s Biggest Earners Made Their On-Court Cash
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