Mike Phillips was a professional basketball player who played Center . Phillips’s height was 6 ft 10 in. Phillips died on April 25, 2015, in Madisonville, Kentucky. Phillips was born on March 24, 1956, in Akron, Ohio. This article takes a deep dive into Mike Phillips’s net worth.
Phillips played basketball in college with Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball (1974-1978) and started playing professionally in 1979. In the 1978 draft, Phillips was chosen number 45 in round 3 by the New Jersey Nets. Phillips left the game of basketball in 1990.
Phillips played for the CB Mollet during 1979-1980 as well as the FC Barcelona Bàsquet in 1980-1982. Later, Phillips played for the CB Santa Coloma throughout 1982-1985, the RCD Espanyol over 1985-1987, the CB Valladolid during 1987-1988, and the CB Granollers during 1988-1989. Some of the highlights of Mike Phillips’s career included: List of NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball champions, Second-team All-Southeastern Conference, and 2× Third-team All-SEC.
Basketball player annual payments can range between $20,000 and tens of millions of dollars annually, depending on a number of considerations. Although typical NBA players earn a salary of around $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover contracts earn as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is close to $100 million, although currently no player earns anywhere near that amount. The top players earn around $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, annual payments can be as low as $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
So what was basketball player Mike Phillips’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Mike Phillips’s net worth at death is:
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