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This also skews the list towards sports with salary caps where salaries are therefore public knowledge and easy to cite. The contract figures referenced below are presented at face value and do not reflect potential pre or post-tax treatments. For example, contracts with European sports teams are typically quoted on a post-tax basis.
The 2008–09 Boston Celtics season was the 63rd season for the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They started the season as the defending NBA champions, where they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, winning their seventeenth NBA championship, as well as marking their ninth series victory over the Lakers in the NBA Finals.
On June 28, the SuperSonics traded Ray Allen and the 35th pick of the second-round Glen Davis in the 2007 NBA draft to Boston Celtics for rights to the fifth pick; Jeff Green, Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West. On July 11, the SuperSonics and Orlando Magic agreed to a sign and trade for Rashard Lewis. The SuperSonics received a future second ...
The 2008 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2007–08 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs.A best-of-seven playoff series that was played from June 5-17, 2008, the series was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics and the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers.
The 2013 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association 's (NBA) 2012–13 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs, played from June 6 to 20, 2013. [1][2][3] The defending NBA champion and Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, who were favored to win the series, [4][5][6] defeated the Western Conference ...
Demi Moore became the highest paid female actor in the world when she landed a $12.5 million payday for 1996’s “Striptease,” and that’s when the backlash against her started.
[83] [84] Punter Ryan Allen was awarded with the Ray Guy Award at the end of the season, as well as conference honors. [85] As a result of Tech's success, Dykes was honored as the 2011 WAC Coach of the Year. [86] At the end of the 2011 season, Dykes signed a contract extension to increase his base salary to at least $700,000.
Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy , science fiction , horror , mystery , and realistic fiction .