How much do you get?

Minimum salary is $45,000.

Larkins PAYS the 36ers to play for them. Well, he should.

Players 9,10 & 11 in most team will be on 45k including super. Living below the poverty line

Yeah money for the last couple of players on a list is pretty bad. My mum got told years ago from a former players parent that "he'd be earning a lot more money if he was working at Macca's instead of playing in the NBL"

So? You can't expect more if the league isn't generating revenue. If you don't like it don't play NBL.

Plus it's a six month gig. $45K for six months is $90K per year extrapolated.

Unfortunately it isn't a 6 month gig. Players end up taking it over 12 months just to make sure they have money coming in. The leagues going to pay more Americans 18 years old 100k, it stinks

I think you'll find most contracts include October thru end of March, in case the team makes finals.

I would guess most teams come together one or two months before the season. The majority of the team that is, maybe not the imports.

So I think their contract is more like 7 months min and possibly 8 months. Just my opinion.

Also, what about the development players chasing their dream?

I have it on very good authority, my son played with one of them, that in his last year he was offered $5k for the season.

Regularly had to attend multiple of training sessions per day which made it very hard to even get a part time job to supplement his income.

How do these "kids" survive? On the good grace of their parents.

Don't take that as being all clubs pay that for DP spots.

So? A DP gets peanuts because the harsh economic reality of the NBL and its clubs is that it doesn't generate enough revenue to pay more. What do you want them to do - pay more and then go bust? If it's not enough money then don't play NBL. Simple.

"Players 9,10 & 11 in most team will be on 45k including super. Living below the poverty line"
How does that even make sense? Living below the poverty line. You do know that most contracts in the NBL aren't for a full year right? So many numpties with such expert opions that really have never understood how the game works.
$45K with sick leave, holidays and super is a bad deal for a year even? Utter bollocks.

They start training in July and finish in late February/early March. That's 8 months to start with. you Have no idea what your tailing about.

None of you really have much idea other than speculation. Unless you have cold hard facts, stop spitting out numbers. Each team structures their pay scales differently as you would imagine with small market vs large market teams. Most of the players that are "living below the poverty line" also get paid in the offseason through other league and camps etc. A player can also structure their pay in many different ways.

Nothing's changed from my earlier comment, you don’t know what your talking about. These guys struggle financially period, even with an extra couple thousand during the off season. You can structure your 45k around how ever you like but it’s still 45k. Now to bring the possibility of a fourth American per team straight out of high school and pay them 100k, it still stinks. This league will become another D-league for the NBA.

So? No one is entitled to $X if a business isn't turning enough. That is what the NBL is - a struggling business. You can't feel entitled to more $ as a lower tier player in the NBL just because you want to play professionally. The world doesn't work like that.

turning over enough*

Think of a DP like an apprenticeship. How much does a first year apprentice earn? Check on that, and then complain about the NBL structure.

Listen anon 676490, just because you have a friend of a friend tell you one thing, doesn't mean the same for all. Some get more some get less, and it’s dependent on their market value. From first hand experience, DP’s playing SEABL/other get more than 'a couple of thousand and if they don’t, they need to hire a new agent. I still maintain you have no real idea.

Thanks for the reply Isaac. Don't want to have an argument about it. I was just sharing what I knew about one player & I am sure some DP's are paid more. However, this kid was going into his 3rd year as a DP.
I'm not saying it is right or wrong. I'm just sharing what I know.

IMO they are just being used as training players and are probably never going to progress or play in the NBL. Yet they can't see that. They have delusions of grandeur.

As for the apprentice scenario or TAFE/Uni argument.

1. They are not in TAFE or Uni. They are an employee. Yes, this is their choice.

2. As for the apprentice scenario - I just checked a 1st year bricklaying apprentice is listed as between $500 to $800/week, depending on the industry. Approximately $12k to $18k for 6 months & that didn't include any of the perks (Travel, Site allowance, etc)

Development players aren't training players. As each NBL club has training players below the development players and the training players are the ones who get paid nothing but expected to be there as bodies for the first teamers to bang against at every training session.

So before you cry about the woes of development players spare a thought for the training players who are a wrung below that.