No wonder United could only afford one import last season.

Baynes this season is on 900k

Some players on that list are robbing their employers. SEM have three on that list, no wonder they struggle as the rest team play for bottom coin.

One of them only partially counts against the cap and another doesn't count against the cap at all IIRC.

I feel crook reading some of these salaries for last season. The rumour was Delly's 3 year deal with United was for $700k a season and turns out he was actually on $900k-$1 million. Oh my.

Yet more evidence SEM is being run quite poorly. The Broekhoff deal is bad enough big name coming back from a couple of years in the NBA and all that but what on Earth were they doing paying Munford that kind of money?

What were the JJ's doing paying Adams a guy out of the Belgian league that kind of money? Worse he wanted more money to come back this season!

Munford was a bona fide stud coming into the league, and he showed why. But only on select nights.

Adams was a stud coming in as well, and a new club would always need to pay overs to get people playing there. Their roster stunk in terms of talent last season. They weren't a destination of choice.

Humphries had better not be on near that kinda cash with United this season.

Adams was playing in Belgium the trainer-wheels league in Europe and no Tassie wouldn't have had to pay overs to lure him there because new imports don't give a shit about going to a less desirable part of Australia. If the money's right they'll live on Norfolk Island for all they care.

Humphries would've had to take a serious pay cut to get another contract in the NBL after his last two seasons at the Sixers. I dare say if he doesn't pull his finger out this season it might be next stop Cairns or Illawarra for him.

Before the Tassie gig Adams was off the bench for the Italian Serie A champs, behind Milos Teodosic and Marco Belinelli.
Tassie, brand new club full of unknowns and everyone kinda 'knew' they'd suck. Wasn't referring to the geographical location so much.

Okay my mistake I thought he came from Belgium not Italy for some reason.

Obtained by Mews Corp.

Hacking or stealing people's phones again?

Mumford was a victim of SEM last season.

Mumford on this years United would be special.

Creek feels low on that list...

"Adams was playing in Belgium the trainer-wheels league in Europe"

Jesus! Adams has played in VTB United, Euroleague, Italian Serie A, Basketball Champions League, Turkish BSL, Eurocup and Spanish ACB. That's a roll call of Europe's best leagues. One league he's never played in, however, is Belgium.

I'd be a little suspect about this list. Might be accurate, but why does it stop at 14? What a strange number. Who leaked the info and what are they trying to get out of it?

Maybe it's just cos no one gives a crap who's on 250k

Certainly paints United in a bad light, spending that much on Delly. Likewise SEM with Broekhoff

7 of the top 14 in Melbourne, damn.

Did they though?

Or did they include the supplement in the number "as an ambassador"?

I'm assuming United spent 700k (widely rumored on here last year) and the remaining 200-300 was NBL ambassador etc

A bit high

I'd be interested in seeing a detailed analysis of the value guys like Baynes and Delly bring to the NBL and United though

Article is not accurate at all. It is Cleary missing Kai Sotto's monster multi million dollar deal.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/rising-star-72-filipino-basketballer-kai-sotto-has-signed-a-multimillion-dollar-deal-with-adelaide-36ers/video/468c1a7d65794b635f29970f7f4bce02

That's why United were happy to see Delly get signed by Sacramento. Although they didn't spend the money too well from the looks of things!

This doesn't pass the sniff test

Let's be honest if this was a list of the highest paid players from last season then Vic Law definitely is letting his injury plagued career status affect his earning potential as he was quite a good player in this league.

Surprised that Finn Delaney and Yanni Wetzell weren't on the list but that explains why they went to Europe for more money I guess.

Thank you NBL for leaking this, it should be made public every season

It's a weird mash of last year and this year. Looks like the NBL was keen to let everyone know that Delly was getting paid.

The Broekhoff price tag made sense at that time, when people thought he'd come here and be a laser. I just hope he's not on anything near that today.

I think it's just last year and they’ve associated with this years’ club.

Ie Humphries that’s probably his 36ers pay packet, but they’ve just said he’s at United now.

You’re right about them just wanting to mention they pay Delly lots though, had to come along with a puff piece

Given how far SE Melbourne fell off the perch once Broekhoff got injured, it would only reaffirm his claim for good money.

A couple of things from this and the cap spend to take into account

Teams with 3 imports can only have one marquee - explains why United's and SEM cap figure aren’t that high.

Asian players and next stars don’t count against the cap - Zhou Qi wouldn’t have which is why SEM were below the soft cap, same with Jessup and Illawarra.

If you don’t play all 28 games only a proportion of your salary counts against the cap - Humphries money in hand compared to cap figure would have been low. Same with Broekhoff.

Imports can’t be marquee players - therefore Cottons full salary counts against the cap which explains why Perths cap figure is so much higher.

Would be interested to see the physical spend compared to the cap figure. On the outside looking in Sydney, Melbourne and SEM seem to be able to utilise the rules and save on tax the best.

Mitch Creek shouldn't have to be the cornerstone engine room for that squad being the 4th paid player.

"therefore Cottons full salary counts against the cap which explains why Perths cap figure is so much higher"

It depends on whether the figures in the article posted by OP are Perth's actual salary spend or deemed figures for salary cap purposes.

The article doesn't state whether they've adjusted the numbers for imports for the differences between the deeming rate used to calculate equivalent AUD$ values of USD$ contracts for salary cap purposes. (See "Explaining the NBL Salary Cap System", 9 June 2019, written for nbl.com.au by Liam Santamaria.)

If the article did adjust for the import salary deeming process, then the actual AUD$ spend for Cotton would be higher than the article states - between 20% and 47% higher. i.e., actual spend somewhere between $1.08 million and $1.32 million. (See historical AUD-USD exchange rates at https://www.poundsterlinglive.com).

This range is somewhat higher than the article states for Dellavedova.

ABPA not happy about the salaries being released.

I'm all for full teams spend to be public knowledge, that's not private personal information, but I don't see any justification for players' income to be made public. Not unless they sign up for that.

I agree as much as we fans want to know who is being paid what I don't think individual salaries should be made public but total team spends including all the loopholes should be.

^^^^ 100%

Gross total of team, not some made up numbers.