Cotton Fitzsimmons is a professional basketball player. Fitzsimmons died on July 24, 2004, in Phoenix, Arizona. Fitzsimmons was born on October 7, 1931, in Hannibal, Missouri. This article takes a deep dive into Cotton Fitzsimmons’s net worth.
In high school, Cotton Fitzsimmons played basketball for Bowling Green(Bowling Green, Missouri). Fitzsimmons played basketball in college with, Hannibal-LaGrange University (1952-1953), and Midwestern State University (1953-1956).
Some of the highlights of Cotton Fitzsimmons’s career include: 2× NBA Coach of the Year Award, Phoenix Suns Ring of Honor, 2× NJCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, Big Eight Conference regular season champions, and Big Eight Coach of the Year.
Player salaries vary between a few thousand dollars and tens of millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of considerations. Although typical NBA players make a salary of approximately $2 million, some with D-league crossover agreements receive as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is around $100 million, although currently nobody brings in anywhere near that much money. The top players earn around $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, yearly earnings can go below $20,000 annually for minor league teams.
So what was basketball player Cotton Fitzsimmons’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Cotton Fitzsimmons’s net worth at death is:
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