If I was Kofi and was offered $1m NIL I would have played one more season at Illinois.
The Japan Professional Basketball League, or for short Japan B League has made big improvements to it’s competition. A merger in 2016 between two Japanese leagues brought on by Fiba mandates, has turned the newer league into a profitable and growing business. Which in turn improves the B League player’s salaries. Local Japanese players saw an increase in their salaries to an
average salary of $147k USD, with the players that compete in the Japanese National Team making on average $417k USD in the B League for the 2018/19 season.Currently, the highest-paid Japanese player,
Yuki Togash, is making just a hair under $1 million USD. This brings us to the import players which like most leagues have a different bracket. You can expect to see higher level import players in Japan making
$1 million USD or more for a season.
An average import salary in the Japanese B1 would be more in the radius of $120k-300k USD per season. Living expenses are expensive in Japan, but players don’t need to worry about that as teams usually cover those expenses.
League roster- Kofi and Jack Cooley (blast from the past recruit) were the only people I recognized
Japanese B.League Players - RealGM
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