In the 1984 draft, the Bulls selected Michael Jordan with the third pick in the first round to sign a four-year, $2.76 million rookie contract with Jordan, who was smaller than the contracts of Olajuwon and Sam Bowie, but his performance was the best.
In his rookie season, Jordan's annual salary is $550,000, he averaged 28.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 2.4 steals, 0.8 blocks, shooting 51.5% from the field, and he led the Bulls to the playoffs with excellent performance, pushed Olajuwon to win the best rookie, was selected to the All-Star starting lineup, and was selected for the best team second team.
In the second season, Jordan played only 18 games due to injury, he was injured after playing three games at the beginning of the season, only to return a few months later, and then played 15 games with time limits, which can make Jordan bad.
In the third season, Jordan vented all the energy he had held back last season, averaging 37.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, shooting 48.2% from the field, being elected the leading scorer for the first time and being named to the Best Team for the first time.
By the fourth season, Jordan averaged 35 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 3.2 steals, 1.6 blocks per game, shooting 53.5% from the field, and was re-elected as the scoring champion, again selected to the best team, the first time selected to the best defensive team, the first time to be selected as the king of steals, becoming a superstar with excellent offensive and defensive skills.
This year, Jordan was elected the regular season MVP, and won the best defensive player award, becoming the first player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP and DPOY in a single season, and then only Olajuwon and Alphabet Brother have completed once each, counting the scoring king, Jordan is the only one in NBA history.
How scary was Jordan that season? He averaged 35 points per game on the offensive end, shooting 53.5 percent from the field, averaging the league in points, shooting averages and efficiency points per game, and his efficiency value reached 31.7, the only player with an efficiency value of more than 30 that season, and the second-place Bird efficiency value was 27.8, and the gap was obvious.
While doing the ultimate on the offensive end, Jordan's performance on the defensive end is also impeccable, averaging 3.2 steals per game in the league, and as a guard, it is very rare to average 1.6 blocks per game, which allows him to press a number of defensively excellent centers to get DPOY.
What was the annual salary of such a brilliant Jordan at that time? Ranked ninth in the league? You may not believe it, jordan's annual salary that season was only $850,000, ranking 39th in the league, and the highest annual salary at that time was Patrick Ewing, whose annual salary was $2.75 million, more than three times that of Jordan, which is called low salary and high energy.
In fact, from the performance point of view, Jordan has been a relatively cheap labor for a long time, except for 1997 and 1998, Jordan has no year's annual salary ranked first in the league, he has been the first person in the league for many years, but the annual salary is often ranked fifth in the league, with his appeal and commercial value, in 1997 and 1998 to get more than 30 million US dollars in the annual salary is also understandable.
In addition to Jordan, the Bulls also enjoyed the benefits of Rose's rookie contract, and Rose won the regular season MVP in his third season, becoming the youngest MVP in NBA history, when his annual salary was only $5.55 million, and the league's top 100 were not ranked.
Near the end of his rookie contract, Rose was injured, and he was plagued by injuries and never played at the top, resulting in his career not getting a top salary contract and not making a lot of money late in his career like Jordan.
Jordan and Rose earned far more money from endorsement contracts than they got in the NBA, and Nike put its last hopes on Jordan, and rookie Jordan saved Nike from bankruptcy with his outstanding performance, and later founded "AJ", from which Jordan received huge dividends every year.
Rose and Adi signed a 14-year, $185 million contract, he is a low-key and powerful player, there are many loyal fans around the world, even if he is in the trough, there are still many people who do not give up, during that period the sales of the products he endorsed did not decrease, so that Adi saw the huge commercial value of him, has always chosen to cooperate with him.