Sidney Wicks Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?

Sidney Wicks was a professional basketball player. Wicks was born on September 19, 1949, in Los Angeles, California. Wicks’s height is 6 ft 8 in. Wicks’s weight is 225 pounds. This article takes a deep dive into Sidney Wicks’s net worth.

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Sidney Wicks Career and Earnings/Salary

In high school, Sidney Wicks played basketball for Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles); (Los Angeles, California). Wicks played basketball in college with, Santa Monica College (1967-1968), and UCLA Bruins men’s basketball (1968-1971) and started playing professionally in 1971. In the 1971 draft, Wicks was chosen number 2 in round 1 by the Portland Trail Blazers. Wicks left the game of basketball in 1982.

Wicks played for the Portland Trail Blazers during 1971-1975 as well as the Boston Celtics in 1976-1977. Later, Wicks played for the San Diego Clippers throughout 1978-1980, and the Reyer Venezia Mestre over 1981-1982. Some of the highlights of Sidney Wicks’s career included: 4× NBA All-Star, NBA Rookie of the Year Award, NBA All-Rookie First Team, 3× List of NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball champions, NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, Sporting News Men’s College Basketball Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy, 2× Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year, Consensus first-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans, Consensus second-team All-American, 2× First-team List of All-Pacific-12 Conference men’s basketball teams, and No. 35 UCLA Bruins men’s basketball retired numbers.

Wicks set a career record of 12,803 (16.8 ppg) points, 6,620 (8.7 rpg) rebounds, and 2,437 (3.2 apg) assists.

Sidney Wicks Net Worth 2018

Player annual payments vary between a couple thousand dollars and millions of dollars per annum, depending on a number of circumstances. Although typical NBA players earn a salary of almost $2 million, a small contingent of players with D-league crossover contracts are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is approximately $100 million, although currently no player makes anywhere near that amount. The top players earn nearly $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, yearly earnings can be under $20,000 per year for minor league teams.