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  2. List of largest sports contracts - Wikipedia

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    Basketball: 5 years (2025–2030) $314,000,000 $62,800,000 $765,853 [20] 21 Rafael Devers: Boston Red Sox: Baseball 10 years (2024–2033) $313,500,000 $31,350,000 $193,519 [21] 22 Jaylen Brown: Boston Celtics: Basketball 5 years (2024–2029) $303,734,891 $60,746,978 $740,816 [22] 23 (tie) Manny Machado [h] San Diego Padres: Baseball 10 years ...

  3. University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal

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    That report found that there were 341 men's and women's basketball players and football players during these years; of this group, 34 students did not meet CNN's threshold of being "college literate", which meant a minimum SAT reading score of 400 or an ACT score of 16; essentially, the university suggested that of its athletes, ten percent had ...

  4. List of highest-paid NBA players by season - Wikipedia

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    That same season, Bill Russell became just the second player to receive over $100,000. Moses Malone & Bill Walton were the first players to earn $1 million in a season, they were paid exactly $1,000,000 in the 1979–80 season. Larry Bird became the first player to earn $5 million or more with a salary of $7,070,000 in the 1991–92 season.

  5. Forbes list of the most valuable sports teams - Wikipedia

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    Source [1]. According to the latest ranking from December 12, 2024: For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are the world’s most valuable sports team, worth an estimated $10.1 billion—the first to cross the 11-figure threshold and $1.3 billion beyond their closest competition.

  6. Forbes list of the most valuable NBA teams - Wikipedia

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    The latest ranking reported that the Golden State Warriors are the most valuable NBA franchise during the 2024-25 NBA Season, with a valuation of $8.8 billion. [1] The Warriors are the third NBA team to hold the title of most valuable franchise since the inception of Forbes' ranking during the 1991–92 NBA season , with the other two being the ...

  7. Junior Bridgeman - Wikipedia

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    Ulysses Lee "Junior" Bridgeman (born September 17, 1953) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. Bridgeman played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 12 years from 1975 until 1987, beginning with the Milwaukee Bucks. Bridgeman is the current owner of Ebony and Jet magazines. Despite never making more ...

  8. Salary cap - Wikipedia

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    In theory, there are two main benefits derived from salary caps – promotion of parity between teams, and control of costs. [5] [6] [7]Primarily, an effective salary cap prevents wealthy teams from certain destructive behaviours such as signing a multitude of high-paid star players to prevent their rivals from accessing these players, and ensuring victory through superior economic power.

  9. Alec Peters - Wikipedia

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    Alec Jeffrey Peters (born April 13, 1995) is an American-born naturalized Bosnian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Valparaiso University , where he was an All-American in 2017.