Who are the top five earners in the '09 draft? The career salary exceeded 250 million, and the No. 7 show counterattacked first

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2024-05-17 18:03Posted in Henan Sports Creators

The NBA2009 draft was considered by many fans to be a "draft year", but they came out of 2 MVPs, 6 All-Stars, and many high-quality championship puzzle players, as many as 9 players have helped their teams win the championship and stand on the top of the NBA, many of which have won big contracts, which shows that the quality of the 09 draft is not low, and it is not lost to the draft year, so who are the top five players in the 09 draft career income? Let's take a look!

Fifth: Jrue Holiday

Total career salary: $254 million

Holiday is one of the top backcourt defenders on the active roster, with his ability to rotate to defend multiple positions, and Holiday was instrumental in building an impregnable defense for the Bucks and winning a championship in 2021.

In the 2012 playoffs, Holiday helped the 76ers stage the "Black Eight Miracle", defeating the Bulls with a total score of 4-2 in the first round, Holiday averaged a team-high 18.2 points per game, and led the team with an average of 4.7 assists per game, and in the fourth season of his career, the 22-year-old Holiday unlocked the achievement of being selected as an All-Star.

During his time with the Pelicans, Holiday was one of the most reliable helpers around the thick eyebrows, and in the 2017-18 season, Holiday was selected as the best defensive team and entered the ranks of the league's top defenders.

At the beginning of the 2017-18 season, Holiday already had an annual salary of more than $25 million, and in 2020, the Bucks traded for Holiday and Merrill to pay Bledsoe and as many as 4 first-round picks from the Pelicans, and later extended his contract with Holiday The Bucks offered a 4-year $160 million contract with a maximum salary, and the Bucks successfully retained the team's head control, and Holiday also escorted the Bucks to win the championship in 2021.

You must know that the four opponents of the Bucks in the playoffs that year had strong players in the backcourt, Dragic of the Heat, Irving and Harden of the Nets, Trae Young of the Hawks, Paul and Booker of the Suns, and the presence of Holiday was crucial to the Bucks' promotion and championship, and the offensive efficiency of the Bucks when he was on the floor in the playoffs was 11 higher than when he was not on the court.

After leaving the Bucks in 2023, Holiday joined the Celtics, with him assisting the "double probe" Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the Celtics have more confidence to win the championship, and the Celtics and Holiday signed a four-year $135 million contract extension in advance is also the best recognition of his strength, according to the situation of Holiday in the remaining contract, he will have an annual salary of $37.2 million until the age of 37, and the total career salary is expected to exceed $400 million when he retires.

Fourth: DeMar DeRozan

Total career salary: $257 million

DeRozan has a wide range of offensive tools, and from 2013-14 to 2023-24, he averaged 20+ points per game in the regular season for 11 consecutive years, making him the league's best scorer. DeRozan has helped the Raptors stay on a playoff team for many years and is a strong contender for the Eastern Conference title, and the four-year, $38 million contract he signed in 2013 is a great value from today's perspective.

Of course, after the contract expired in 2016, the Raptors also gave DeRozan respect and offered a five-year, $139 million contract, which made DeRozan's annual salary from the 2015-16 season to the 2016-17 season soar by more than $17 million, and after the 2015-16 season, DeRozan's annual salary stabilized at more than $25 million, whether it was in the Spurs or the Bulls.

According to a report by salary expert Bobby Marks, according to the collective bargaining agreement, DeRozan, who will become a free agent in the 2024 offseason, is eligible to sign a three-year, $130 million contract extension with the Bulls, which means that his average salary in the future may exceed $43 million, which is a big increase from before.

After gradually developing more mature organizational skills, DeRozan has more places to attract teams to sign with him than he used to enter the free agent market, and as for whether to choose a big contract or take a pay cut to go to a team with better championship prospects, it can only wait for DeRozan to make his own decision.

Third: Blake Griffin

Total career salary: $258 million

Among the top five players in the class of '09 rookie earnings, only the champion Griffin has retired, in fact, he has not played in the NBA since the 2022-23 season, and the previous season was only $2.9 million, even so, Griffin's total career salary still reached $258 million, which shows how high his strength was recognized at his peak.

In the past, Griffin was known as the "White Monster", and many commentators used the word "flying away" when watching his games. In addition to his outstanding physical talents, Griffin has also developed delicate techniques after years in the league, and can skillfully apply a variety of techniques, including back and face frames.

The longer Griffin spent in the league, the more he was no longer limited to just getting fans to applaud and scream with dunks, but more to read the game, and even become the team's organizer and tactical initiator at some moments.

In the 2013-14 season, Griffin averaged 24.1 points, 9.5 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.2 steals per game, ranking third on the MVP final voting list, and in the first round of the 2015 playoffs, he averaged 24.1 points, 13.1 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.4 blocks per game in the series against Duncan.

After spending 9 years with the Clippers, Griffin has made this team have gained a lot of attention, and in the same period, he has a record higher than the Lakers in the same city, and has also entered the ranks of championship teams, but he has not been able to end up with the Clippers after all, after signing a five-year $1.71 contract in 2017, Griffin suffered an injury, and this is not the first time, it has happened repeatedly before that, the Clippers finally chose to give up on him and traded him to the Pistons, where Griffin did not regain his former glory.

In 2017, the five-year $171 million contract was the last big contract signed by Griffin's career, and then he went to the Nets, and the Celtics team offered him a contract with an annual salary of no more than $3 million, which was not the same as the level of the top ten or even the top five in the league, and in the 2020-21 season with the Nets, Griffin was still able to get relatively stable playing time, and his rotation order became more and more marginal in the next two seasons, then faded out of the league, and finally announced his retirement.

Second: James Harden

Total career salary: $338 million

Although Harden entered the league as a scout, he played the role of the sixth man in the Thunder at the beginning of his career, and with such a career starting point, he was able to become one of the only two MVPs of the same rookie, and also received $338 million, the top ten career total salary in the history of the league, Harden's NBA career can be described as unsuccessful.

In 2012, Harden joined hands with Durant, Wei Shao, and Ibaka to help the Thunder reach the Finals, they are still young, and the team looks like it has a promising future, but according to ESPN reports, Harden and the Thunder collapsed in the offseason on a contract extension, Harden wanted to top the salary, but the size of the contract given by the Thunder after two price increases was still different from Harden's expectations, and finally the two sides parted ways, and it was after this that Harden gradually stepped into the ranks of the league's top stars.

Going to the Rockets, Harden has gained a huge amount of tactical freedom, where he is the team's number one star and does not have to play with the second team most of the time as before, and Harden has also proved that he can be the core of a team and become a top star. At the Rockets, Harden became a three-time scoring champion, an assist leader, an MVP, and was named to the All-Star Team for four consecutive years from 2016-17 to 2019-20.

In 2016, he renewed his contract with Harden for 4 years and $117 million in advance, and in 2019, he gave a 4-year contract of $171 million, Harden's annual salary ranked among the top ten in the league from the 2016-17 season to the 2021-22 season, and the second highest in the league in the 2021-22 season, with an annual salary of more than $40 million.

But with the increase of age and injuries, it is difficult for Harden's competitive state to return to the "Rockets", and his goal is more determined to chase the championship, and later took a salary cut when he renewed his contract with the 76ers, but to this day, Harden has not been involved in the championship, even if there have been stars such as Durant, Embiid, Leonard, Paul George and other stars, he has not been able to win the championship.

In the 2024 offseason, Harden will become a free agent, and his total career salary has reached $338 million, which is a level that many players cannot want.

In the 2023-24 regular season, Harden's average of 8.5 assists per game ranks fourth in the league and 12th in the league in offensive efficiency of 120.9.

First: Stephen Curry

Total career salary: $354 million

In the 09 draft, which has emerged with many high-quality players, Curry, who is the No. 7 pick, is in the leading position in terms of total career salary, which can also be regarded as a counterattack, especially combined with the repeated injuries he experienced at the beginning of his career, and even the Warriors have been exposed to the intention of trading him many times, Curry's career achievements are now even more shining.

After the ups and downs in the early stages of his career, Curry's injury history became a factor of concern for the Warriors when considering renewing his contract, and in the end in 2012, he signed only a four-year, $44 million contract, when the same champion Griffin had already received a five-year, $95 million contract, and Ty Lawson, who was the 18th pick in the first round in the same class, received a contract that was higher than Curry's total value, reaching four years and $48 million.

And then with the development of the league, the players' salaries have risen, the salary cap has also experienced an increase, Curry signed the 4-year $44 million contract in 2012 to give the Warriors more room to maneuver in the formation of the roster, Curry also played an excellent performance, all kinds of factors superimposed, the Warriors entered the championship window, and successfully won the championship in the 2014-15 season, Curry won the MVP in that season, won the award again in the 2015-16 season, and became the first unanimous MVP in the NBA.

If you look at the list of players' annual salaries in the 2015-16 season, you will find that Curry, the MVP of that season, is ranked outside the top 50 in terms of annual salary.

There is no doubt that Curry has played a valuable role with his excellent performance, and then renewed his contract with the Warriors, and the contract has never been smaller, so that his annual salary from 2017-18 to 2023-24 is the existence of leading the league, and in the 2019-20 season and 2023-24 season, Curry has become the "first player with an annual salary of 40 million" and "the first player with an annual salary of 50 million" in NBA history with an annual salary of $40.23 million and an annual salary of $51.91 million.

Curry's contract has two years left, and if it goes well, his total career salary will have the opportunity to exceed $400 million, of course, with Curry's ability to attract money, even if he renews his contract for the championship in the future, his income will not be low, according to Forbes, Curry's income in 2024 is among the top ten among athletes, reaching $102 million, only behind James and Brother Alphabet among the NBA players on the list.

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