Austin Rivers Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?

Austin Rivers is a professional basketball player who plays Shooting guard / Point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers as number 25. Rivers was born on August 1, 1992, in Santa Monica, California. Rivers’s weight is 200 pounds. Rivers’s height is 6 ft 4 in. This article takes a deep dive into Austin Rivers’s net worth.

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Austin Rivers Career and Earnings/Salary

In high school, Austin Rivers played basketball for Winter Park High School (Winter Park, Florida). Rivers played basketball in college with Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball (2011-12 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season) and started playing professionally in 2012. In the 2012 National Basketball Association draft, Rivers was chosen number 10 in round 1 by the New Orleans Hornets.

Rivers played for the New Orleans Pelicans during 2012-2014 as well as the Los Angeles Clippers in 2014-present. Some of the highlights of Austin Rivers’s career include: Third-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans – National Association of Basketball Coaches, First-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, ACC All-Freshman team, Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award, First-team Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team, McDonald’s All-American Game, and Florida Mr. Basketball.

Austin Rivers Net Worth 2018

Basketball annual payments can range between a few thousand dollars and millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of factors. Although most professional NBA players make a salary of about $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover agreements are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is nearly $100 million, although as of today no player makes anywhere near that amount. The top players in the NBA earn approximately $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, salaries can be under $20,000 per year for minor league teams.