Why Steph Curry is only the NBA's 79th-highest paid player
 

Why Steph Curry is only the NBA's 79th-highest paid player
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Steph Curry is the NBA's back-to-back MVP, its best point guard and the brightest star on a wildly popular team. *

He's also the league's 79th-highest paid player.

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It's late July and the NBA's summer free agency frenzy has cooled down. With the dust settled, Curry's Warriors contract is stranger than everSpotrac.com, a site that tracks salaries in pro sports, puts Curry's wage for the 2016-17 season at 79th in the NBA.*

Role-players — Khris Middleton, Ricky Rubio and Arron Afflalo, for starters — earn millions more than him. Al Horford — a fine player but certainly ** Steph Curry — makes more than double Curry's salary.* Read more...

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