Kentucky alumni took the No. 1 place because the highest-paid within the NBA in 2014 and are unlikely to relinquish it quickly. When the Wildcats changed the Huskies on the high spot, they earned $107 million mixed. By final yr, their earnings had soared to $398 million, roughly 8 p.c of the entire NBA wage expenditure.
The times when North Carolina reigned supreme within the wage rankings are lengthy gone. Tar Heel alumni haven’t ranked within the High 8 because the 2019-20 season.
Beneath are the rankings yr by yr since 1990-91, the earliest date for which we now have information. (The best-paid participant for every faculty is in parenthesis.)
