According to a report by a known Sports Outlet, Denver Nuggets mascots earn $625,000 per year, higher than most WNBA players’ salary. Visit us for more NBA Mascots articles!
Rocky the Mountain Lion, a Denver Nuggets Mascot that was first introduced by the club in 1990, the era in which the Nuggets really experienced a drought in attendance, struggling to sell tickets during home matches.
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A Brief Background on NBA Mascots
In 1969, the year man landed on the moon, the Chicago Bulls introduced their mascot, and first mascot in the NBA, named Benny the Bull. Since then, many mascots have been introduced, emerged, and became a staple in the NBA World. NBA teams decide on their mascots based on the team’s name, cultural and historical past, or they just select random, out-of-nowhere names.
As the NBA continues to expand its scope, with global audiences, international players, foreign investors, global viewers, the NBA as an organization not just a professional sports industry, but it also involves cultural and societal aspects, which makes the NBA much more interesting. The typical job of an NBA mascot is to entertain the crowd during home games. Now, those mascots became a staple of the identity of specific NBA clubs – with viral videos of mascot engagements with fans, altercation with other mascots during All-Star break, and many more. With the expansion of NBA in general, revenues go triple and quadruple as time passes by, as many international prospects discovered, with potential huge markets being explored in many nations, the role of an NBA mascot became vital to engage the audience, the fans. So, it is without a doubt, that the salary of an NBA mascot is much larger or higher than the WNBA’s highest earning players.
WNBA players’ salaries
The internet goes wild after learning that the Denver Nuggets mascot is revealed to be the highest-paid mascot in the NBA, with a salary of $625K annually. While the WNBA’s best player, Diana Taurasi, a 3x WNBA champion and 5x Olympic Gold medalist earns only $228K annually, which is considered the highest paid player in the WNBA.
This shows that the salary gap of a feminine athlete is way, way lesser than just an NBA mascot. It also has an astronomical gap between the NBA’s bench players and the WNBA’s superstars. Many expressed their dismay and disbelief towards this huge salary gap, some say that this is an indication how women are valued in the sports industry. The Five-time WNBA All-Star and Minnesota Lynx player Angel McCoughtry expresses her disbelief by posting a critical tweet which comments on the $62K salary of an NBA Mascot. ‘I can learn to be a mascot,” tweeted by McCoughtry.
The current salary of an average WNBA player is $10,000 or less monthly. Kaela Davis is the lowest paid player with $1,607 per month. The average salary of an NBA player according to Bleacher’s report data is $8 million, while a WNBA player earned $102,000 just last season.
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