Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is poised to collect another NBA Championship this week. His team leads the Cleveland Cavaliers 3-0 in the final series and will have their first chance to close out the victory in Game 4 on Friday night.
This would be Kerr's eighth NBA Championship: He has won five as a player and two as a coach. And Kerr brings home an appropriately hefty paycheck. He's currently in the fourth year of a five-year, $25 million contract that gives him an annual salary of $5 million.
But that's still just a fraction of what his star players earn.
Take Stephen Curry, who renewed his contract last July. The two-time league MVP signed on for $201 million over five years, earning him a gross payout of around $34 million for the 2017-2018 season alone. That's about seven times the salary Kerr earns.
Another Warriors star, Kevin Durant, earns about $25.6 million a year, or five times more than his coach.
To be fair, Curry and Durant are two of the highest-paid players in the league. And Kerr is still doing well for himself: A $5 million salary easily puts him among the top 1 percent of earners in America.
Kerr would even be willing to take a pay cut, he tells the Washington Post, in exchange for a shorter regular season NBA schedule.
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