What is LeBron’s average salary per game? Many are asking this question following LeBron James’ one-game suspension following a scuffle in Detroit on Sunday night, which began when LeBron made contact with Isaiah Stewart’s face and drew blood. LeBron James is in the first year of a two-year, $85.6 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
This season, he is paid $41.2 million, which works out to $502,201 per game. That is not, however, the amount of money he will lose as a result of his ban. When a suspension lasts shorter than 20 games, NBA players forfeit 0.7 percent of their annual income for each game missed due to suspension. As a result of his Sunday brawl in Detroit, James will lose $288,263 in prize money.
Because of the ban, James will miss the Lakers’ sole trip to Madison Square Garden this season, which is on Tuesday night against the Knicks in New York. After the game, Lakers big man Anthony Davis addressed the issue, saying James never intended to damage anyone. “Everyone in the league knows Bron isn’t dirty,” Davis said. “It wasn’t on purpose.”
“We weren’t going to let him put that kind of pressure on our brother.” After a sluggish and disjointed start to the game, Carmelo Anthony believes the event did at least ignite a fire under the Lakers. On Spectrum Sportsnet, Anthony said, “We could have easily let the game slip away, but we needed to come together at that moment.” “… Something like that was exactly what we needed to rekindle our passion.”
