The highest salary in the league: Wolf King & Sharks have been 10 years in total, Kobe has been 7 years in a row, Curry has been 9 years in a row, and LBJ has been 1 time in a row

August 20th News Today, PisouNaLinha|NBA wrote an article to sort out the first salary from 1999 to 2025. From the 1999-00 season to the 2025-26 season, the highest paid player in the league was occupied by four athletes: Kevin Garnett Shaquille O'Neal

Kobe Bryant Bryant

Stephen Curry

From the 1999-00 to the 2008-09 season, O'Neal and Garnett took turns as the highest paid players in the NBA. O'Neal made his first top spot in the 1999-00 season (who played for the Lakers), and then Garnett topped the list for four consecutive years (2000-01 to 2003-04 seasons). O'Neal regained the top spot in the 2004-05-06 season (when playing for the Heat), but Garnett led the way again in the 2006-07 season (after transferring to the Celtics), and continued until the 2008-09 season.

Since then, Kobe Bryant, who won the fourth championship, set an amazing record for the highest-paid NBA player for seven consecutive years (2009-10 to 2015-16 seasons) until his retirement. This was once the longest consecutive leading record in NBA history,

However, this record was broken by Stephen Curry in the 2024-25 season. From the 2017-18 season, he will be the highest-paid player in the league for the ninth consecutive year (Curry is still the highest-paid player in the league in the 25-26 season).

LeBron James, the highest-paid player in history with a salary of $584 million, has only one season become the highest-paid player in the league - the 2016-17 season.

After Kobe retired in the 2015-16 season, James became the highest-paid player in the league in 2016-17, but only lasted for a year. Curry won a super contract in the 2017-18 season. Frequent team changes and James’ iconic short-term contracts in his career have prevented him from continuing to receive what is called a super-maximum contract.