Even Denver Nuggets mascot's wage is substantially higher than WNBA's highest earners

Professional sports have always enjoyed a massive fan base. While entire focus remains on players, or features of league are hardly ever discussed. or aspects we are talking about are office workers, officials, waterboys and mascots. According to a recent givemesport.com report, salary of an NBA mascot was revealed, which is indeed an eye-opener.

NBA mascot salary: How much does NBA pay mascots?

job of a mascot during matchday is to entertain crowd. Though it might sound easy, becoming an NBA mascot isn't an easy job. league looks for best of best candidates who have prior experience of working as a mascot. Out of  82 game seasons, each team plays 41 home games and mascot has to be available and ready to put on a show. However, job of mascot is also immensely rewarding as well.

Currently, NBA players earn astromical salaries compared to women basketball players and mascots. While one might think that mascots aren't paid a huge amount, reports suggest that y earn more money than even WNBA players. As per a report by Bleacher Report, Denver Nuggets mascot Rocky Mountain Lion currently tops chart in terms of mascot ws.    mascot earns an eye-popping $625,000 (£552,000) per year.  report mentions that money is ten times more than aver mascot w, which is $60,000 (£53,000).

According to hypebeast.com, Rocky was first introduced as a mascot back in 1990 when Denver Nuggets were going through toughest phase of franchise and were struggling to sell tickets at home games. report states that Ken Soloman is only kwn person to portray character. second-highest paid mascot is Harry Hawk of Atlanta Hawks, who earns $600,000 (£529,000), while Chicago Bulls mascot Benny takes home $400,000 (£353,000) each year.

Top WNBA players' salary details revealed 

According to NBC Sports report,  highest-earning WNBA players currently are Seattle Storm duo of Jewell Loyd and Breanna Stewart, and Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi. three women basketball players earn a reported $228,000 (£200,000) per year. amount is almost £400,000 less than money earned by Denver Nuggets mascot. 

Loyd is a two-time WNBA champion and earned Rookie of Year award during her maiden season with Storm in 2015. Stewart just like Lyod, was named Rookie of Year before going on to win two WNBA titles with Storm, while picking up MVP award in 2018. Taurasi, on or hand, is a Women's basketball legend winning five Olympic gold medals with Team USA, spanning from 2004 to 2020. She was named WNBA MVP in 2009 and won three titles with Phoenix Mercury. Last year, Taurasi was selected by fans as WNBA’s greatest player of all time, and in 2017, she became league’s all-time leading scorer.