Who has the biggest contract in NBA history?

Giannis Antetounmpo signed a five-year deal making him the highest-paid player in NBA history, despite Stephen Curry being the NBA’s highest-paid player for the 2021-22 season.

Stephen Curry not only balls out from beyond the 3-point line, but he also is the NBA’s highest-paid player for the 2021-22 season. Curry is cashing in on the end of his deal, set to make $46 million by the end of this season, making him the highest-paid player within the NBA for this season.

Curry signed an extension to his current deal that is set to start at the beginning of the 2022-23 season that is worth $215 million.  For the foreseeable future, Curry will have the largest per-season salary. Though Curry is the highest-paid NBA player for this season, Giannis Antetounmpo sits on a throne of coins after signing the largest contract within the NBA.

Giannis Antetounmpo moves to No.1

Antetounmpo signed a five-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks cashing in at $228 million guaranteed, earning an average salary of $45.6 million. The price of his contract has doubled since his previous deal, which consisted of a guaranteed $100 million with the Bucks. Although Curry has a higher single-season salary, the total value of Giannis’ contract is the largest in NBA history. Antetounmpo’s supermax contract has officially passed up the $228 million contract that Rockets, James Harden, signed back in 2017.

The “Greek Freak” has won two NBA MVP awards back-to-back and can defend anyone in the league. He is the third player in NBA history to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season and he’s certainly earned that record contract.

Antetounmpo’s contract includes an opt-out after the fourth year but with the way things are going in Milwaukee, it’s hard to imagine him wanting to play anywhere else.