Don Barksdale was a professional basketball player who played Forward / Center as number 6, 17. Barksdale’s weight was 200 pounds. Barksdale died on March 8, 1993, in Oakland, California. Barksdale was born on March 31, 1923, in Oakland, California. Barksdale’s height was 6 ft 6 in. This article takes a deep dive into Don Barksdale’s net worth.
In high school, Don Barksdale played basketball for Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) (Berkeley, California). Barksdale played basketball in college with UCLA Bruins men’s basketball (1946-1947) and started playing professionally in 1948. Barksdale left the game of basketball in 1955.
Barksdale played for the Oakland Bittners during 1948-1949 as well as the Oakland Blue n’ Gold Atlas in 1950-1951. Later, Barksdale played for the Baltimore Bullets (1944-54) throughout 1951-1952, and the Boston Celtics over 1953-1954. Some of the highlights of Don Barksdale’s career included: NBA All-Star, Consensus second-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans, First-team List of All-Pac-12 Conference men’s basketball teams, and No. 11 UCLA Bruins men’s basketball retired numbers.
Barksdale set a career record of 2,895 points, 2,088 rebounds, and 549 assists. Barksdale won a gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics event. Barksdale won a gold medal in the 1951 Pan American Games in the Basketball at the 1951 Pan American Games event.
Player yearly earnings can range between a couple 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 almost $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover deals are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is around $100 million, although currently nobody earns anywhere near that amount. The top players earn approximately $35 million. Outside of the NBA, yearly earnings can dip below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
So what was basketball player Don Barksdale’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Don Barksdale’s net worth at death is:
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