Joe Fulks was a professional basketball player. Fulks’s height was 6 ft 5 in. Fulks died on March 21, 1976, in Eddyville, Kentucky. Fulks was born on October 26, 1921, in Birmingham, Kentucky. Fulks’s weight was 190 pounds. This article takes a deep dive into Joe Fulks’s net worth.
Image Credit: UnknownIn high school, Joe Fulks played basketball for Kuttawa; (Kuttawa, Kentucky). Fulks played basketball in college with Murray State Racers men’s basketball (1941-1943) and started playing professionally in 1946. Fulks left the game of basketball in 1954.
Fulks played for the Philadelphia Warriors during 1946-47 BAA season 1953-54 NBA season. Some of the highlights of Joe Fulks’s career included: BAA champion, 2× NBA All-Star, 3× All-BAA First Team, All-NBA Second Team, List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders, and No. 26 Retired numbers.
Fulks set a career record of 8,003 (16.4 ppg) points, 1,379 (5.3 reb) rebounds, and 587 (1.2 ast) assists.
Basketball salaries vary between a few thousand dollars and millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of considerations. Although typical NBA players make a salary of almost $2 million, some with D-league crossover agreements are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is approximately $100 million, although as of today nobody brings in anywhere near that much money. The top players in the NBA earn close to $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, annual payments can be under $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
So what was basketball player Joe Fulks’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Joe Fulks’s net worth at death is:
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