#7 Kyrie Irving [Overall: #29]
Earnings: $36.1 million [Salary: $19.1 million; Endorsements: $17 million]
Uncle Drew, or Kyrie Irving, surely earns far lesser than he deserves. Unfortunately, he got the short end of the stick, being in the middle of his extension contract when mega-deals were thrown out to lesser deserving players in the summer of 2016.
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His signature sneaker line with Nike is among the most popular ones right now as a majority of the current players in the league, either wear the Kyrie 4s or the Kyrie 3s. So expect his next NIKE deal to help him receive much higher than it currently does. Also, the 2017-18 season was his penultimate season on his current deal which means he will be an unrestricted Free Agent in 2019.
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