Dolph Schayes Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?

Dolph Schayes was a professional basketball player. Schayes’s height was 6 ft 7 in. Schayes’s weight was 195 pounds. Schayes died on December 10, 2015, in Syracuse, New York. Schayes was born on May 19, 1928, in The Bronx, New York. This article takes a deep dive into Dolph Schayes’s net worth.

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Dolph Schayes Career and Earnings/Salary

In high school, Dolph Schayes played basketball for DeWitt Clinton High School; (Bronx, New York). Schayes played basketball in college with NYU Violets men’s basketball (1944-1948) and started playing professionally in 1948. In the 1948 draft, Schayes was chosen number 4 in round 1 by the New York Knicks. Schayes left the game of basketball in 1964.

Schayes played for the Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers during 1948-49 BAA season 1963-64 NBA season. Some of the highlights of Dolph Schayes’s career included: NBA champion, 12× NBA All-Star, 6× All-NBA First Team, 6× All-NBA Second Team, List of National Basketball Association annual rebounding leaders, NBA 25th Anniversary Team; NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, No. 4 retired by Retired numbers; Haggerty Award, and NBA Coach of the Year Award.

Schayes set a career record of 19,249 (18.2 ppg) (NBL/BAA/NBA); 18,438 (18.5 ppg) (BAA/NBA) points, 11,256 (12.1 rpg) rebounds, and 3,072 (3.1 apg) assists.

Dolph Schayes Net Worth 2018

Basketball salaries vary between a few thousand dollars and tens of millions of dollars per year, depending on a number of statistics. Although on average, NBA players make a salary of approximately $2 million, a few with D-league crossover deals receive as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is around $100 million, although currently nobody makes anywhere near that much money. The top players earn nearly $35 million. Outside of the NBA, yearly earnings can be under $20,000 annually for minor league teams.