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This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
The 6-year contract of $4.25m per annum made Kukoc the highest-paid basketball player in the world above Patrick Ewing. 36 Thodoris Papaloukas: CSKA Moscow: Olympiacos: €1.8 [9] $2.8 2008 - Raül López: Joventut Badalona: Real Madrid: €1.8 $1.9 2000: 275 million in former Spanish peseta - Davide Pessina: Pallacanestro Cantù: Olimpia ...
Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Basketball United States: 2023: 1: 12 [ao] 220: 146.9 [ap] 12.2: 668 [42] 57 Championnat de France de rugby à XV de 2e division (Rugby Pro D2) Rugby union football France: 2021–22: 2: 16: 245: 144: 9: 587 [31] 58 Canadian Football League (CFL) Canadian football Canada: 2018: 1: 9: 86: 143 [aq ...
Euroleague Basketball run by ECA (Euroleague Commercial Assets) is a private company that runs and operates the top continental-wide basketball men's professional sports club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup.
The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000–01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply ...
Goga Bitadze (left) of Georgia defends Kristaps Porziņģis of Latvia during a 2022 game between the Indiana Pacers and Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Dallas Mavericks teammates Boban Marjanović (left) of Serbia and Luka Dončić of Slovenia before a 2021 game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland
Two years ago, WNBA icons Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird worked with USA Basketball to hatch a plan in which prospective members of the 2020 U.S. Olympic team could make up to an additional $100,000 if...
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the European zone within the International Basketball Federation. The competition was first held in 1935.