Jerry Lucas Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?
Jerry Lucas was a professional basketball player. Lucas was born on March 30, 1940, in Middletown, Ohio. Lucas’s weight is 230 pounds. Lucas’s height is 6 ft 8 in. This article takes a deep dive into Jerry Lucas’s net worth.
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Jerry Lucas Career and Earnings/Salary
In high school, Jerry Lucas played basketball for Middletown High School (Ohio) (Middletown, Ohio). Lucas played basketball in college with Ohio State Buckeyes men’s basketball (1959-1962) and started playing professionally in 1962. In the 1962 draft, Lucas was chosen number NBA territorial pick by the Cincinnati Royals. Lucas left the game of basketball in 1974.
Lucas played for the Cincinnati Royals during 1963-1969- as well as the San Francisco Warriors in 1969-1970. Later, Lucas played for the New York Knicks throughout 1971-1973. Some of the highlights of Jerry Lucas’s career included: NBA champion, 7× NBA All-Star, NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, 3× All-NBA First Team, 2× All-NBA Second Team, NBA Rookie of the Year Award, 50 Greatest Players in NBA History; List of NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball champions, 2× NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, 2× Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, 3× Consensus first-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans, and No. 11 Retired numbers.
Lucas set a career record of 14,053 (17.0 ppg) points, 12,942 (15.6 rpg) rebounds, and 2,732 (3.3 apg) assists. Lucas won a gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics event.
Jerry Lucas Net Worth 2018
Basketball player annual payments vary between $20,000 and tens of millions of dollars per year, depending on a number of considerations. Although most professional NBA players make a salary of almost $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover deals earn as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is around $100 million, although currently no player brings in anywhere near that much money. The top players in the NBA earn approximately $35 million. Outside of the NBA, salaries can be under $20,000 annually for minor league teams.
Jerry Lucas net worth: basketball salary distribution
So what is basketball player Jerry Lucas’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Jerry Lucas’s net worth as of 2018 is: $1.1 million
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