DeMarcus Cousins Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?
DeMarcus Cousins is a professional basketball player who plays Center / Power forward for the New Orleans Pelicans as number 0. Cousins’s height is 6 ft 11 in. Cousins’s weight is 270 pounds. Cousins was born on August 13, 1990, in Mobile, Alabama. This article takes a deep dive into DeMarcus Cousins’s net worth.
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DeMarcus Cousins Career and Earnings/Salary
In high school, DeMarcus Cousins played basketball for LeFlore Magnet High School (Mobile, Alabama). Cousins played basketball in college with Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball (2009-2010) and started playing professionally in 2010. In the 2010 National Basketball Association draft, Cousins was chosen number 5 in round 1 by the Sacramento Kings.
Cousins played for the Sacramento Kings during 2010-2016 as well as the New Orleans Pelicans in 2016-present. Some of the highlights of DeMarcus Cousins’s career include: 4× List of NBA All-Stars, 2× All-NBA Second Team, NBA All-Rookie First Team, Consensus second-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans, First-team All-Southeastern Conference, Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, and SEC All-Rookie Team.
Cousins won a gold medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 2016 United States men’s Olympic basketball team event. Cousins won a gold medal in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in the 2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team event.
DeMarcus Cousins Net Worth 2018
Basketball player annual payments vary between a couple thousand dollars and millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of factors. Although most professional NBA players make a salary of almost $2 million, some with D-league crossover deals earn as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is close to $100 million, although currently no player earns anywhere near that amount. The top players in the league earn nearly $35 million. Outside of the NBA, annual payments can dip below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
DeMarcus Cousins net worth: basketball salary distribution
DeMarcus Cousins’s salary in 2018 was $18 million.
So what is basketball player DeMarcus Cousins’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for DeMarcus Cousins’s net worth as of 2018 is: $13 million
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