The highest salary in the NBA history, the fourth highest annual salary in the world sports industry, and the winners on and off the SGA

Gilgers Alexander just played the most brilliant season in team history and helped the Thunder win their first NBA championship since relocating from Seattle.

SGA averaged 32.7 points per game in the regular season, the highest in the league, while in the NBA Finals, the SGA averaged 30.3 points per game!

He became the 11th player in NBA history to win the title of MVP and MVP in the same season!

The other five are Reed, Jabbar, Moses Malone, Magic Johnson, Olajuwon, O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Larry Bird (twice), LeBron James (twice) and Michael Jordan (four times).

In addition, SGA became the sixth player in NBA history to win the scoring champion and championship in the same season. The first player to achieve this since O'Neal in 2000, four of them had achieved this, namely Jordan (six times), George Miken (two times), Jabbar and Joe Falkers once each. The Thunder's choice to build a team around him paid off, and SGA led the Thunder to win the fifth league title and the second championship in team history.

SGA has renewed the maximum salary contract with the Thunder without any dispute. Thunder media publicly reported that SGA has signed a four-year, $285 million super maximum salary contract, which will allow him to play for the Thunder until the 2030-31 season.

Alexander's average annual salary will reach an astonishing $71.25 million, the most expensive contract since the founding of the NBA and the fifth largest contract in sports history (average salary within contract years).

Calculated by AAV, there are only four contracts in the world sports industry that have higher revenue than this contract:

Fourth place: Boxing contract signed by Alvarez and DAZN (US$73 million per year from 2018 to 2023);

Third place: The final contract signed by Messi and Barcelona (US$168.5 million per year from 2017 to 2021)

Second place: Ronaldo and Saudi Al Nassr (Riyadh)’s first contract ($214.5 million a year from 2023 to 2025,

First place: Ronaldo and Saudi Arabia’s contract renewal contract at the end of June 2025 ($355 million a year from 2025 to 2027).

By AAV, SGA is more than $16 million more than the highest-paid NFL star, with Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals and Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars each earning $55 million a year.

Among NBA players, he earns more than Boston Celtics star Jason Tatum (before the NBA AAV The record holder of the highest salary contract) was nearly $9 million higher.

, and the 26-year-old young talent, both on and off the court, was a winner in life. After winning the championship, SGA took his wife and children to the championship parade and took commemorative photos together. After the season ended, SGA quickly returned to his family and left more time to his family.

SGA's wife is Hayley Summers, who was also an athlete. She served as the captain of the school football team during college and represented the University of Albany in the NCAA Division I.

As early as 2017, Hayley and SGA met and fell in love on social networks, and they were still in college.

After her college career, Summers was wearing No. 2 jersey, the same number she wore on the basketball court.

Although SGA entered the NBA and became famous, his relationship with his wife did not fade at all, and he got married in 2024.

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