Wow, salaries of the 97-98 Chicago Bulls

[haterofhaters]

Taken from Basketball-Reference.com
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/01/12/pistons/t1_jordan.pippen.rodman.jpg
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Salaries
1 Michael Jordan $33,140,000
2 Toni Kukoc $4,560,000
3 Ron Harper $4,560,000
4 Dennis Rodman $4,500,000
5 Luc Longley $3,184,900
6 Scottie Pippen $2,775,000
7 Bill Wennington $1,800,000
8 Scott Burrell $1,430,000
9 Randy Brown $1,260,000
10 Dickey Simpkins $1,235,000
11 Robert Parish $1,150,000
12 Jason Caffey $850,920
13 Steve Kerr $750,000
14 David Vaughn $693,840
15 Keith Booth $597,600
16 Jud Buechler $500,000
17 Joe Kleine $272,250
18 Rusty LaRue *$242,000



MJ's Salary = 33 Mill
The rest of the team's combined salary = 30.36 Mill

If this was todays making money first, winning a title second NBA, I bet the majority of the team would've just sat out, starting with Pip.:oldlol:

[juju151111]

Taken from Basketball-Reference.com
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/01/12/pistons/t1_jordan.pippen.rodman.jpg
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Salaries
1 Michael Jordan $33,140,000
2 Toni Kukoc $4,560,000
3 Ron Harper $4,560,000
4 Dennis Rodman $4,500,000
5 Luc Longley $3,184,900
6 Scottie Pippen $2,775,000
7 Bill Wennington $1,800,000
8 Scott Burrell $1,430,000
9 Randy Brown $1,260,000
10 Dickey Simpkins $1,235,000
11 Robert Parish $1,150,000
12 Jason Caffey $850,920
13 Steve Kerr $750,000
14 David Vaughn $693,840
15 Keith Booth $597,600
16 Jud Buechler $500,000
17 Joe Kleine $272,250
18 Rusty LaRue *$242,000



MJ's Salary = 33 Mill
The rest of the team's combined salary = 30.36 Mill

If this was todays making money first, winning a title second NBA, I bet the majority of the team would've just sat out, starting with Pip.:oldlol:
LOL where do u think the crazy amount players get came from?Mj was the first one to ask for that much.LOL players today like iggy get payed more then Mj from 80s to early 90s.

[drwax26]

Taken from Basketball-Reference.com
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/01/12/pistons/t1_jordan.pippen.rodman.jpg
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Salaries
1 Michael Jordan $33,140,000
2 Toni Kukoc $4,560,000
3 Ron Harper $4,560,000
4 Dennis Rodman $4,500,000
5 Luc Longley $3,184,900
6 Scottie Pippen $2,775,000
7 Bill Wennington $1,800,000
8 Scott Burrell $1,430,000
9 Randy Brown $1,260,000
10 Dickey Simpkins $1,235,000
11 Robert Parish $1,150,000
12 Jason Caffey $850,920
13 Steve Kerr $750,000
14 David Vaughn $693,840
15 Keith Booth $597,600
16 Jud Buechler $500,000
17 Joe Kleine $272,250
18 Rusty LaRue *$242,000



MJ's Salary = 33 Mill
The rest of the team's combined salary = 30.36 Mill

If this was todays making money first, winning a title second NBA, I bet the majority of the team would've just sat out, starting with Pip.:oldlol:
Pip shouldve made more but everyone else just about right. They did win 6 titles and last time i checked MJ was 6time Finals MVP.

[DuMa]

David Falk knew what he was doing... too bad he didnt represent Pip as well.

[haterofhaters]

LOL where do u think the crazy amount players get came from?Mj was the first one to ask for that much.LOL players today like iggy get payed more then Mj from 80s to early 90s.
At the same time, before that MJ, the greatest player alive was making like 3-5 mill a year.. vs. scrubs who now make that money.

[Jasper]

LOL where do u think the crazy amount players get came from?Mj was the first one to DESERVED for that much.LOL players today like iggy get payed more then Mj from 80s to early 90s.

Fixed

MJ did not get huge sallaries until his final years. And the 97/98 season was a reward for what he gave to basketball.
I totalled once the amount of shoots over that season and it came out to one shot was my annual income.

[haterofhaters]

Fixed

MJ did not get huge sallaries until his final years. And the 97/98 season was a reward for what he gave to basketball.
I totalled once the amount of shoots over that season and it came out to one shot was my annual income.
I'm sorry, but nobody who plays basketball for a living, not even the GOAT deserves 33 mil a year. I agree that he deserved to be the highest paid because he was the best at his craft, but that number is staggaring.

[No_Look604]

Yeah when I found out MJ & Pippen made like 2 mill per season for most of their careers I almost puked, when comparing to today's scrubs.

Look at it like this....real estate was WAAY cheaper back then.
So any player who invested most of their $$ into houses got a nice flip.

[Scott Pippen]

before that he never make more than $4 million in one season. During 72-10 historic season, he only make $3 million.:lol But still poor Scottie is disrespected by management for 10 years:(

[juju151111]

I'm sorry, but nobody who plays basketball for a living, not even the GOAT deserves 33 mil a year. I agree that he deserved to be the highest paid because he was the best at his craft, but that number is staggaring.
LOL look at his other years #s.He was getting like 3 mill a year.In todays nba Mj salary is for scrubs or low key role players.It doesn't really matter because Mj got so much endorsments he could live off that.

[Soundwave]

That's a bit misleading because they Bulls paid Michael Jordan $1-$2 million/season to Jordan for basically the first part of his career.

The $30 mill he made off the Bulls for the last two seasons was basically making up for some (not even close to all though) of the hundreds of millions he made for the Bulls franchise over his career.

Pippen likewise got paid big time with the Blazers after leaving the Bulls.

[clayton]

Pippen was highly underpaid. Damn he wouldn't be broke too!:ohwell:

[Soundwave]

Jordan and Pippen were both at odds with Reinsdorf/Krause because they were grossly underpaid for years.

Reinsdorf/Krause really hit the jackpot though getting both of those guys locked in to long term contracts like that.

They made a fortune off that franchise in the 90s no question.

[dr8ked]

yeah , Krause was seriously raping them, Even when pippen was a Free agent Krause wasnt trying to Pay him more than he was before. He was almost leaving the bulls for another Team and Jordan made them sign him or else he was leaving too. Bulls Management is stingy. I had to laugh when Gordon Turned down 50 Mil they were Offering him knowing the Bulls History.

[VanillaThunder]

That's a bit misleading because they Bulls paid Michael Jordan $1-$2 million/season to Jordan for basically the first part of his career.

The $30 mill he made off the Bulls for the last two seasons was basically making up for some (not even close to all though) of the hundreds of millions he made for the Bulls franchise over his career.

Pippen likewise got paid big time with the Blazers after leaving the Bulls.


agreed

Season Team Lg Salary
1987-88 Chicago Bulls NBA $725,000
1988-89 Chicago Bulls NBA $575,000
1989-90 Chicago Bulls NBA *$670,000
1990-91 Chicago Bulls NBA $765,000
1991-92 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,770,000
1992-93 Chicago Bulls NBA $3,425,000
1993-94 Chicago Bulls NBA $3,075,000
1994-95 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,225,000
1995-96 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,925,000
1996-97 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,250,000
1997-98 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,775,000
1998-99 Houston Rockets NBA $11,000,000
1999-00 Portland Trail Blazers NBA $14,795,642
2000-01 Portland Trail Blazers NBA $13,750,000
2001-02 Portland Trail Blazers NBA $18,083,564
2002-03 Portland Trail Blazers NBA $19,727,524
2003-04 Chicago Bulls NBA $4,917,000
2004-05 Chicago Bulls NBA $5,408,700
Career (may be incomplete) $109,862,430

[CantStopMe]

Crazy Jordan Groupie: WTF? Only 33 mill. If Krause wasn't so selfish, he would have made the rosters into 8 players and give the remaining salary of the 4 cut players to MJ. Yet Laker fans complain about Mitch Kupchak and Jerry Buss.

[VanillaThunder]

Pippen made more from the NBA than Jordan did
1984-85 Chicago Bulls NBA $550,000
1985-86 Chicago Bulls NBA $630,000
1986-87 Chicago Bulls NBA *$737,500
1987-88 Chicago Bulls NBA $845,000
1988-89 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,000,000
1989-90 Chicago Bulls NBA *$2,250,000
1990-91 Chicago Bulls NBA $2,500,000
1991-92 Chicago Bulls NBA $3,250,000
1992-93 Chicago Bulls NBA $4,000,000
1993-94 Chicago Bulls NBA $4,000,000
1994-95 Chicago Bulls NBA $3,850,000
1995-96 Chicago Bulls NBA $3,850,000
1996-97 Chicago Bulls NBA $30,140,000
1997-98 Chicago Bulls NBA $33,140,000
2001-02 Washington Wizards NBA $1,000,000
2002-03 Washington Wizards NBA $1,030,000
Career (may be incomplete) $93,772,500



although Jordans endorsements were huge in comparison

[Anti404]

It's insane how Pippen and Jordan FOR THEIR CAREERS made less than one of Arena's inflated contracts.

[DuMa]

you cant compare salaries from one decade to another. inflation plays a huge part in that. a long with the CBA

[Haphazardly]

Pip shouldve made more but everyone else just about right. They did win 6 titles and last time i checked MJ was 6time Finals MVP.
Rodman deserved 10 mil a year. Don't care what anyone says.

[ruslan]

even more stagaring is the fact that toni kukoc and ron harper made 4mil + while scottie made only 2mil+.....wtf is up with that?

[CelticForce1349]

Jordan made a ton of money that year but that was payback for years of being underpaid while building that team into an NBA empire. Scottie should have been paid so much more for everything he brought to the team though.

[baseketball4life]

LOL@ Scottie's salary

[bjtrdff]

Even at 30+mil, Jordan was underpaid for what he brought to the bulls and to the league.

[stewen12]

Now i kno why Pippen is still tryin to play. He didnt get paid!

[trig]

Maybe bec pip signed a very long contract at the wrong time. Didnt Jim Mcilvaine had a higher salary than shawn kemp at one point?

[shaoyut]

I can't believe pippen only made 2.7mill

[VanillaThunder]

if I remember right, pippen signed a large frontloaded contract with the bulls and wasnt happy towards the end (possibly rightfully so) but he signed it nonetheless.

[mlh1981]

A true testament to the coaching abilities of one Phil Jackson, who had to lead a roster that consisted of several guys who were severly underpaid for a majority of their careers. 9/10 coaches couldn't handle that sort of turmoil, and who knows what went on behind closed doors, but Phil got them to focus on the on-the-court stuff.

Obviously, Jordan deserved every penny of that salary in which he collected in 1997-98, but I'm sure that there was some jealousy, given that he made FAR more money than anyone else. Sure, they were thankful for what he brought to the table on a nightly basis, but there also existed a large intimidation factor, I'm sure, due to this wide gulf in salaries.

[haterofhaters]

LOL look at his other years #s.He was getting like 3 mill a year.In todays nba Mj salary is for scrubs or low key role players.It doesn't really matter because Mj got so much endorsments he could live off that.
#1, check post 5 where I clearly said the same thing you just said right here.

#2, you completely missed the point. there are heart surgeons that make like 500k to 1 mill for a year. There job is infinitely more important than being a basketball player. So to say that any athlete deserves 33 million in one season is ridiculous.

[97 bulls]

#1, check post 5 where I clearly said the same thing you just said right here.

#2, you completely missed the point. there are heart surgeons that make like 500k to 1 mill for a year. There job is infinitely more important than being a basketball player. So to say that any athlete deserves 33 million in one season is ridiculous.
no its not ridiculous. remember that he getting paid not to play basketball, but for people around the world to watch him play basketball. i still think he was underpaid at 33+. jordan personally made the nba as popular as the nfl in the 90s.

[Chrono90]

using the name Michael Jordan can help the team sell lots of things to make it up...

tickets, jerseys, watevers

i remember the video games back then couldnt even afford to use jordan's name, they use "player" or "number 99" as jordan

[YoungRich]

yeah , Krause was seriously raping them, Even when pippen was a Free agent Krause wasnt trying to Pay him more than he was before. He was almost leaving the bulls for another Team and Jordan made them sign him or else he was leaving too. Bulls Management is stingy. I had to laugh when Gordon Turned down 50 Mil they were Offering him knowing the Bulls History.
lol i never thought of that...ridiculous

[kidachi]

Pip? 2.8mil only? wow.

[Vragrant]

Funny enough, I remember Jordan getting 36 mill, but I guess I was wrong. Wow, Pippen was really underpaid, but he had beef with his contract even BEFORE the Bulls won thier first title.

I remember Reinsdorf saying before the 97/98 season that Jordan deserved the 30 plus mill he was going to receive that year.

[Loki]

Funny enough, I remember Jordan getting 36 mill,

So do I. I thought it was $30M for 1997 and $35-36M for 1998. That's what I recall hearing around the time.

[puppychili]

Jordan signed a very long term deal around his second or third year. Although he was being underpaid according to the market rate just a few years in he never complained cause he felt it better to honor the contract he signed AND he was making huge money outside of the NBA. Those 2 huge contracts he got at the end were the Bulls way of making it up to him for vastly underpaying him for the majority of his career.

Pippen on the other hand signed a silly deal. He wanted a bunch of up front money along with long term security. Krause himself told Pippen not to do that. He told Pippen something along the lines of "Look, if this is really what you want I'll do it for you but don't come back to me in a few years saying that you're being underpaid. I don't do contract renegotiation's for anyone. Whether you're a scrub or an allstar in the future, you're getting paid according to the terms of this contract. Nothing more, nothing less."

Pip said ya ya whatever and signed it. Then bytched that he was being underpaid a few years later. Krause stood firm and didn't reopen the contract and somehow got labeled the bad guy over all of this.

Krause gets way too much blame for the Bulls break up.

[meh]

What jumped out at me wasn't that MJ was making more than the rest of the team together... I mean, he IS Micheal Jordan, after all.

But it's crazy that Luc freaking Longley made three and a half mil. I've always thought that tall white stiffs getting overpaid was just a recent trend. Apparently, I was wrong.

[mattreis62]

#1, check post 5 where I clearly said the same thing you just said right here.

#2, you completely missed the point. there are heart surgeons that make like 500k to 1 mill for a year. There job is infinitely more important than being a basketball player. So to say that any athlete deserves 33 million in one season is ridiculous.

Do people pay 50 bucks for a seat to watch a heart surgery? Do they buy "Dr. Brown" jerseys after the surgery is over, and then go on eBay and buy Dr. Brown autographs and shoes endorsed by Dr. Brown? 33 million dollars is nothing compared to how much cash players like MJ, LeBron, and Kobe generate.

There are tons of heart surgeons in the world, but there are only a few superstar athletes. It's called supply and demand. You can argue that certain players are overpaid (Rashard Lewis anyone?) but the highest tier of players is underpaid if anything.

[Scott Pippen]

So do I. I thought it was $30M for 1997 and $35-36M for 1998. That's what I recall hearing around the time.
Jordan wanted $36, Bulls wanted to pay $30, so they compromise at $33:applause:

[mvp_status]

Somebody answer this for me

If the lockout never happened, would the Bulls dynasty still have been broken up?

[Scott Pippen]

Jordan, 33 million? Wow, you would think with that much money, he wouldn't have murdered his own father by not paying his gambling debts. He's a bigger ******* than I thought. But hey, he needed that extra mercedes more than his own father.
go back to troll sohh coliseum & lakersground. Please do not bring this crap to insidehoops:confusedshrug:

[EricForman]

Taken from Basketball-Reference.com
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/01/12/pistons/t1_jordan.pippen.rodman.jpg
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Salaries
1 Michael Jordan $33,140,000
2 Toni Kukoc $4,560,000
3 Ron Harper $4,560,000
4 Dennis Rodman $4,500,000
5 Luc Longley $3,184,900
6 Scottie Pippen $2,775,000
7 Bill Wennington $1,800,000
8 Scott Burrell $1,430,000
9 Randy Brown $1,260,000
10 Dickey Simpkins $1,235,000
11 Robert Parish $1,150,000
12 Jason Caffey $850,920
13 Steve Kerr $750,000
14 David Vaughn $693,840
15 Keith Booth $597,600
16 Jud Buechler $500,000
17 Joe Kleine $272,250
18 Rusty LaRue *$242,000



MJ's Salary = 33 Mill
The rest of the team's combined salary = 30.36 Mill

If this was todays making money first, winning a title second NBA, I bet the majority of the team would've just sat out, starting with Pip.:oldlol:


Jordan's last two seasons was merely a makeup for preivous years because he as VASTLY underrated all his career up until 97.

The Bulls management was very smart and locked up Pip and Jordan before salaries blew up. Jordan considered breaking out of the contact in the early 90s because he was so underpaid but decided against it.

[bjtrdff]

Then why is Ben Wallace's contract with the Bulls one of the biggest topics on this forum when Ben got very underpaid with the Pistons considering he won 4 DPOYs and a championship during that time?


Wallace's giant contract was a big topic because

a)it was obviously WAY too much, because the bulls needed to pry him away
b)everyone could see 10 miles away it would be a cap killer shortly
c)he left the pistons, the only team where he had real success and won a title to goto a team that people thought was a piece or two away from being a legit contender


There's a big difference in signing MJ to a giant contract to keep him, to make up for him being underpaid, when even at 30 mil a year he was a bargain, and signing up for Wallace because he happened to be underpaid for a few seasons, in a completely different cap era.


The only remotely non-retarded thing about that contract is that it didn't increase in value each year.

[loot]

Weren't there a lot of bonusses?

[Diesel J]

Jordan, 33 million? Wow, you would think with that much money, he wouldn't have murdered his own father by not paying his gambling debts. He's a bigger ******* than I thought. But hey, he needed that extra mercedes more than his own father.


go back to troll sohh coliseum & lakersground. Please do not bring this crap to insidehoops:confusedshrug:

:oldlol: another Kobe stan trolling

[Collie]

On topic, what the Bulls gave to Mike in terms of salary was paid back a hundred-fold in terms of what he brought to them, not only in team success, but also financial success.

[haterofhaters]

Do people pay 50 bucks for a seat to watch a heart surgery? Do they buy "Dr. Brown" jerseys after the surgery is over, and then go on eBay and buy Dr. Brown autographs and shoes endorsed by Dr. Brown? 33 million dollars is nothing compared to how much cash players like MJ, LeBron, and Kobe generate.

There are tons of heart surgeons in the world, but there are only a few superstar athletes. It's called supply and demand. You can argue that certain players are overpaid (Rashard Lewis anyone?) but the highest tier of players is underpaid if anything.
You're absolutely right. Anyone can be a insignificant heart surgeon, a basketball player on the other hand is the rarest of breeds. Entertainment >>>> saving lives. Your logic is flawless.

[Mathius]

you cant compare salaries from one decade to another. inflation plays a huge part in that. a long with the CBA

Actually you can. When you consider that the new CBA was responsible for lowering the max amount of money a player can get. I think Glenn Robinson was the first player to get a 100 mil contract, and he came out in 94 or so. Anyone remember the length of years on that deal?

Before that I think Larry Johnson had the biggest contract at 84 mil.

Shortly after the Robinson signing, the Heat tried to give out TWO 100 mil contracts, to both Mourning, and Juwan Howard, but Howard's contract was rescinded by the league for being in violation of the salary cap at the time.

Jordan didn't make 100 mil in his whole career. What's that tell you?

Mathius

[lilojmayo]

Actually you can. When you consider that the new CBA was responsible for lowering the max amount of money a player can get. I think Glenn Robinson was the first player to get a 100 mil contract, and he came out in 94 or so. Anyone remember the length of years on that deal?

Before that I think Larry Johnson had the biggest contract at 84 mil.

Shortly after the Robinson signing, the Heat tried to give out TWO 100 mil contracts, to both Mourning, and Juwan Howard, but Howard's contract was rescinded by the league for being in violation of the salary cap at the time.

Jordan didn't make 100 mil in his whole career. What's that tell you?

Mathius

thats amazing cause MJ worth 300million dollars today just think if he actually got paid as a played he would have been the first billion dollar athlete

[iggy>]

Taken from Basketball-Reference.com
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/01/12/pistons/t1_jordan.pippen.rodman.jpg
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Salaries
1 Michael Jordan $33,140,000
2 Toni Kukoc $4,560,000
3 Ron Harper $4,560,000
4 Dennis Rodman $4,500,000
5 Luc Longley $3,184,900
6 Scottie Pippen $2,775,000
7 Bill Wennington $1,800,000
8 Scott Burrell $1,430,000
9 Randy Brown $1,260,000
10 Dickey Simpkins $1,235,000
11 Robert Parish $1,150,000
12 Jason Caffey $850,920
13 Steve Kerr $750,000
14 David Vaughn $693,840
15 Keith Booth $597,600
16 Jud Buechler $500,000
17 Joe Kleine $272,250
18 Rusty LaRue *$242,000



MJ's Salary = 33 Mill
The rest of the team's combined salary = 30.36 Mill

If this was todays making money first, winning a title second NBA, I bet the majority of the team would've just sat out, starting with Pip.:oldlol:
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