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Message: [QUOTE="Kaizen, post: 2202168, member: 6183"] The top three finishers in the [URL='http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2014.html#mvp']NBA's Most Valuable Player voting[/URL] 2016 season — Kevin Durant LeBron James and Blake Griffin — had an annual base salary of $17.8 million, $19 million and $16.4 million, respectively. The most any of the top three vote-getters in the WNBA MVP voting — Candace Parker, Maya Moore and Elena Delle Donne — can make is $105,000, which by league rules is the maximum salary allowed for an individual player. The team salary cap for the WNBA last year was $913,000, with bonus payouts ranging from $1,050 for making the playoffs to $10,500 for winning the WNBA title. Take Brittney Griner, a three-time All-American at Baylor University who dominated the college ranks like few players in history (and even entertained trying out for [URL='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130406/griner-nba-draft-mark-cuban/']an NBA team[/URL]). She was the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, but as a rookie, could only make $49,440 per the WNBA's tight-pursed salary rules. At the end of her first season, she played for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and earned [URL='http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10787294/wnba-star-brittney-griner-adjusts-life-china-espn-magazine'][B]$600,000 for a four-month[/B] season[/URL] — or more than a dozen times her maximum WNBA salary — [URL='http://basketball.asia-basket.com/team/China/Zhejiang_Far_East/10818?Women=1&Page=3']posting averages[/URL] of 24.1 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots. Diana Taurasi, for example, makes[B] $1.5 million [/B]from her Russian team, enough that she infamously chose to skip the 2015 season after she was asked to do so by the team, UMMC Ekaterinburg. [/QUOTE]

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