{"id":459814,"date":"2023-09-19T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459814"},"modified":"2023-09-19T23:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:41:23","slug":"luka-doncic-to-become-the-highest-paid-player-in-nba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/luka-doncic-to-become-the-highest-paid-player-in-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic to become the highest paid player in NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic is on his way to becoming the highest paid basketball player in the NBA. The Dallas star needs just one more All-Star appearance to be able to sign a five-year deal worth \u20ac318m in 2025, or \u20ac367.5m if the predicted 10% Financial Fair Play increase is realized over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>With earnings of \u20ac70 million a year, the Slovenian will overtake Steph Curry, who is now the highest paid player with a contract of \u20ac51.9 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>Curry leaves behind other NBA stars like Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic, who has been part of Dallas since 2018, averaged 32.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic is on his way to becoming the highest paid basketball player in the NBA. The Dallas star needs just one more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":459817,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16747],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17975,18115],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas star player is just one All-Star appearance away from signing a new contract","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459818,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459814\/revisions\/459818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459814"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459814"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}