The CBA championship prize is 100 million, so how much is the NBA championship prize? You may not believe it if you say it

Guangsha Men's Basketball Team has made history this year. It won the regular season championship with a record of 39 wins and 7 losses. It passed the game all the way and entered the finals again. Finally, with the outstanding performance of foreign players Brown, Sun Minghui and Hu Jinqiu, it defeated the Beijing Men's Basketball Team 4-2 with a big score and won the first championship in the team's history.

This championship won not only lifted Guangsha away from the title of "Millennium Second-year Old", but its shocking bonus income after winning the championship also attracted widespread attention from fans and the media. It is reported that the Guangsha Men's Basketball Team's championship prize is mainly composed of four parts: league basic rewards, local government support, sponsor incentives and investor additional rewards. The 70 million alliance bonus is the base, the sponsor will add 35 million, and the local area will get another red envelope, and the total amount will be at least 100 million! This also set a record for the highest bonus in the CBA history.

So, in comparison, how much is the winning prize for the NBA, the world's highest-level basketball league? You may not believe the answer.

Compared with the CBA, the NBA's bonus mechanism is very different. According to league rules, the bonus allocation is linked to regular season and playoff rankings. Bonus are added to each round of promotion in the playoffs, and there are separate additional rewards if you win the championship. In other words, we can understand the NBA's bonus mechanism as "layers of layers". In the 2024-25 season, the total NBA playoff bonus pool was US$34.7 million, equivalent to approximately RMB 245 million. At first glance, the amount is good, but it is not that exaggerated when it comes to the team and individuals. The championship-winning team can get 8.805 million US dollars from the league, which is about 60 million yuan. In the regular season, the best team in the league can win $869,000, and the top seeds in each division are also recorded at $761,000. The seeds from No. 2 to No. 6 are decreasing in turn, ranging from $609,000 to $204,000. This is an extra gift to the regular season struggle.

When it comes to the playoffs, every round of promotion is linked to the bonus. The teams participating in the first round were US$466,000, the semi-finals were US$568,000, the divisional finals were US$951,000, and the finals were US$3.803,000. The winning teams that won the championship are indeed considerable. Take the Thunder as an example, they can win $12.4 million, or about RMB 89 million, setting a new high for single-team playoff bonuses.

Don't be scared by the 89 million. You should know that there are actually not many people who end up falling into the hands of the players. Because these bonuses are not only distributed to the players, but also to the team coaching staff, staff, etc., there are dozens of people of all sizes. Suppose the Thunder wins the championship in the end, and superstars like SGA will receive only about 2% of their annual salary. However, for basic-paying players, winning the championship can make their total revenue soar by more than 30%.

In fact, for top NBA stars such as James, Curry, and Antetokounmpo, they do not value the "small profit" of winning the championship, but the commercial income and exposure rate after winning the championship. Various advertising endorsements are coming one after another, and sales of sneakers, jerseys, and peripheral products have surged, with the revenue dozens of times higher than the league bonus.