Embiid joins Curry and other NBA stars in $500 million club originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The NBA club, which generates $500 million in career revenue, continues to grow.
Joel Embiid signed a three-year, $192.9 million maximum contract extension Friday, keeping the center with the Philadelphia 76ers through the 2028-29 season and raising his career salary to $515 million.
The 30-year-old center joins LeBron James ($584 million), Steph Curry ($532 million), Paul George ($519 million) and Kevin Durant ($508 million) as the fifth member of the exclusive list.
While none of the five players have yet reached the $500 million salary mark, all are under contracts that guarantee they will cross that threshold unless they decide to retire before then.
In August, Curry became the third member club after signing a one-year, $62.6 million contract extension with the Warriors through the 2026-27 NBA season.
If Curry was supposed to retire After his current contract, the four-time NBA champion would have earned a total of $532,677,168 in on-court earnings.
That said, Curry, like James and LeBron, exceeds the billion dollar mark when endorsement deals are included in their overall earnings.
In 2022, Curry would have been in the running for a juicy Billion Dollar Lifetime Contract with Under Armour.
With a record-breaking 11-year, $76 billion television contract expected to drive parabolic salary cap growth in the coming years, players like Luka Dončić and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander are expected to join Curry and company with their next supermax contract extensions.
Of course, none of them are against it.
