Basketball: Awak Kuier Earns almost half a million euros per season in the WNBA

Awak Kuier returns to the WNBA. Picture: Jussi Eskola

Basketball star You are Kuierin a contract with the basketball league WNBA guarantees the national team player huge tenets.

Sports salaries next Sports according to Kuier Tiena, who represents the Dallas Wings, will earn 525,000 dollars, or about 450,000 euros, for the starting season.

The same information was also confirmed in X by a reporter following the WNBA Richard Cohen.

At the same time, Susiladies’ number one star will receive a considerable salary increase. He played for Wings from 2021 to 2024 and earned an average of 63,000 euros per season at that time.

Pay rise not only due to Kuieri’s good performances in Europe and the national team in recent years.

The main factor is the WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement, which revolutionized player salaries. The size of the salary cap increased almost fivefold compared to before and is now seven million dollars per season per team. As a result, player salaries are now exploding.

Even last season, the maximum salary per player was $250,000. Now the minimum wage is also higher: $270,000 per season.

The maximum salary is $1.4 million, and so far the star player Kelsey Mitchell has signed a maximum deal.

In the fierce contract rumba of the spring and winter, 26 players have signed an even more valuable contract than the Finn, and 15 of them earn a million dollars or more.

I’m walking the salary is even historically high among Finnish female athletes. In the past, mainly individual athletes have reached the hard times.

For example, an alpine skier who was one of the highest earners Tanja Poutiainen your money IS calculations according to 2001–13 more than 1.1 million euros in prize money. In addition to them, Poutiainen also received considerable sponsorship income.

The best-earning female athletes are still found in individual sports. Tennis and golf are superior millionaires.

Among team sports athletes, Kuier is currently among the Finns in his own class and high in the international ranking as well.

Kuier Earns more than, for example, the vast majority of the world’s highest-paid female soccer players. He would currently be on the list of the world’s ten highest-paid footballers.

Kuier also leaves behind even the highest-paid players of the Norwegian Hockey League, of which the top names earn between 300,000 and 400,000 euros per season, according to various estimates.