the year basketball players began being paid was 1896
1958
1896
The first time basketball players got paid was in 1896
1896
1965, According to James Naismith
College and High school do not get paid. If you are in the NBA usually the owner of the team will negotiate with the basketball players agent. They usually get paid on how popular or good they are but they get about 20 to 30 million dollars a year.
2010
250,000
1880
basketball players get paid as much as 20,000,000 a year 456,000
38%