The NBAthe best basketball league in the world, has a curious thing going on with its winners.
Unlike other sports, and no matter how gigantic their monetary numbers are, the champion of the competition gets nothing more than the ‘honor of being a champion’.
Beyond the trophy and the banner hanging from its roof from the following year, there is no economic prize for being a winner…. Although, of course, there is a lot of money that comes with it.
There are no prizes for winning the championship ring NBA, but there is the Player Playoff Pool. It is constituted by the income in the Playoffs and delivered during the Playoffs. Each team decides how they will be paid. In many cases, it is through the captains of each franchise supported by their financial department, according to a study by the University of North Carolina.
Last season, the Prize Pool stood at 27.5 million dollars, according to Sporty Report. All Playoff teams received about 328,000 dollars, those reaching the conference semifinals about 390,000 dollars, and for reaching the conference finals, about 645,000 dollars. The losing team in the NBA Finals receives 2.5 million dollars and the winner pocketed about 3.8 million dollars in that prize purse.
It is a different situation to that in other competitions such as soccer UEFA Champions League. There, the teams earn from the group stage, pocket for each favorable result and end up with a large amount in the final in about 15 million euros, plus a bonus for being the champion.
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