What they earn the three Argentines playing in the NBA

In the final stages of their careers, Emanuel Ginobili, Luis Scola and Pablo Prigioni are the best basketball players national payments; comparison with most athletes billed in the world


n the most experienced, most successful and also the top earners. Luis Scola (35), Emanuel Ginobili (38) and Pablo Prigioni (38) make up the trio of Argentine players in the NBA and contracts in the best basketball league in the world located in a privileged place in the universe orange ball.

With four championship rings (2003, 2005, 2007, 2014), Emanuel Ginobili is the great national star in the NBA. With 14 seasons wearing the shirt of the San Antonio Spurs, the bahiense has accumulated US $ 108.5 million solely for their contracts with the Texas franchise and appears as the Argentine who's billed in American basketball.


The most profitable season for Manu, who began his career in Andino of La Rioja, in the National League, was 2012-2013, when he pocketed US $ 14.1 million. Now, with 38 years and the end of his career, he agreed to a reduction in its Contract signed for US $ 2.8 million for this season and an option to renew for the next, for US $ 2.9 million.


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However, Argentine Ginobili is not the highest paid this season. That place belongs to Luis Scola. The pivot wing, captain of the Argentina team, signed a one-year contract with the Canadian team for US $ 2.9 million and is for the first time, the national basketball player with better pay.


Scola, recently designated as a champion of the Argentina delegation at the 2016 Summer Olympics, has spent 12 seasons in the NBA with Houston Rockets steps, Phoenix Suns and Indiana Pacers, before arriving in the Raptors. In this journey, it has accumulated US $ 57.7 million and had his best season in 2010-2011, when revenues of $ 7.8 million.

Third on the list is Pablo Prigioni, based on Los Angeles Clippers and recently eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. The basis born in Rio Cuarto was the last Argentine to reach the NBA (debuted in 2012) and took US $ 947,700 this season.


The Cordovan, whose contract expires at the end of this season, has accumulated US $ 5.1 million in salaries, including his three seasons in New York Knicks, Houston Rockets passing through and the latter in the Californian team.

Although the numbers seem unfathomable to most citizens, three Argentine basketball players in the NBA are far more billed athletes in the world. In 2015, the first place in this category was occupied by Floyd Mayweather Jr.Money, as he likes to be called eccentric boxer, had revenues of US $ 300 million last year, which marked his retirement from professional activity at 39 with 49 victories in as many fights.

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao was second with an estimated $ 160 million revenue, while the podium was completed by Cristiano Ronaldo, with an annual turnover was around US $ 79.6 million.

Lionel Messi: In the fourth step, while the most successful Argentine athlete appears. Rosario, quintuple winner of the Golden Ball FIFA, which rewards the best player in the world, entered around US $ 73.8 billion last year.

In the NBA, meanwhile, he was the best player Kobe Bryant payment, Los Angeles Lakres. Quintuple champion, who at 37 years announced his retirement as a professional at the end of the season, earned US $ 25 million. LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, who received a salary of US $ 22,970,000, and Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks, who received US $ 22,875,000 was then placed.

But being the best payment does not always mean being the best. Stephen Curry, the star of the NBA today, chosen MVP last season and leading the defending champion Golden State Warriors, receives only the 67th best salary: this year gained US $ 11.4 million.