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Nolan Ryan
The first MLB player to earn $1 million per year was Nolan Ryan in 1979. I haven't been able to find the NBA & NFL players as of yet.
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The current average NBA salary of $6.2 million for this season is tops across all sports.The minimum NBA player rookie salary for the 2017-2018 season is $815,615 for the year.The highest NBA player salary for the 2017-2018 season is Steph Currry at $34,682,550 for the year.Players playing in Europe typically make less than those on NBA rosters.
The first football player to make a million dollars a year was Joe Namath. In 1969, Namath signed a three-year contract with the New York Jets that paid him a total of $3 million, making him the highest-paid player in football at the time.