In the midst of all my (largely futile) research on the NBA Collective Bargaining agreement and general finances, I compiled a lot of data. Part of that was capturing all of the player salary information for the Indiana Pacers that Basketball-Reference.com had available.
Still working on what to do with the info I have – and how to fill the holes of what I don’t have -but I thought following visual of Pacer Annual Player Salaries was interesting.
Over this time frame, this shows that the Pacers have paid out about a billion dollars in salaries. The lowest year (1986) was less than $4 million, while the peak (2006) was almost $78 million. Last year’s payroll represented over a 1600% increase over the 1986 numbers. (The median family income during that time increased by about 70%.)
So, now you know that.
Yeah, didn’t do me much good, either.
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Tim Donahue is an editor and lead writer for 8 Points, 9 Seconds. He lives in Fishers, Indiana, and has been around long enough to dimly remember watching the Pacers play way back in the days of the old Fairgrounds Coliseum. You can find him tweeting about the Pacers @TimDonahue8p9s.
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What happened between ’96 and ’97? Was that when Reggie signed a new contract?
And is the growth from 2004-2006 due to JO’s new contract?
Any way to normalize that to either $ value or (probably better) league average salaries?
How could the 86 team only be $4MM? That’s crazy. Assuming this means the 86-87 roster, we’re still talking about Kellogg, Tisdale, Fleming, Herb Williams, and the Rifleman. Only $4MM? You gotta show us the individual salaries.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/IND/1987.html