NBA: Jordan would earn more than Curry and Anteto if the CPI were applied to his salary from 23 years ago

En the present NBA player salaries are skyrocketing than ever. The multimillionaire agreements with televisions (now working on a new deal for nine years and 75 billion) have been allowing to extend the salary limit and the pocket of the players appreciates it. Today a triples specialist can earn $ 20 million per year. There is money for everyone.

Looking back that would have been Michael Jordan’s median salary for his first 10 seasons in the NBA. He was one of the ‘culprits’ that the League resized commercially, exponentially multiplying your income, which resulted in a progressive increase in salaries of the players, today most of them give millionaires ..

Curry and Antetokounmpo, 50 million a year

And Jordan would have played in the current era would have won more than players like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Stephen Curry, who recently signed a contract extension by which they will charge 50 million a year. Could Jordan have earned more than they?

You can know roughly looking at the original salaries that Jordan received during his career and applying the Consumer Price Index from the statistics of the United States Office of Labor. Looking at the comparison, it can be concluded that Jordan would have won as much or more than the current superstars .

In fact, in the 1997-98 season earned his maximum salary as a player with the Bulls, 33,140,000 million of dollars, what transferred to the present will be equivalent to 55,200.00 million dollars, more than the best in the NBA earn today. To put it in perspective, in 1998 Patrick Ewing received a little over 20 million, while Horace Grant was the third highest paid player in the league with 14 million.