Which Boston Celtics the former student is the NBA highest career income from Little Rock, Arkansas? While there are a handful of notable players who hail from one of the state capitals, only one of them is a Celtics alum. And if you need a clue as to who that might be, he had two stints with the team, technically separated by the rest of his entire career in the league, a gap of nearly two full decades.
If that didn’t seem obvious to you, we might as well tell you who it is. Boston’s 10th overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft, Joe Johnson. According to our sister site HoopsHype, Johnson earned a whopping $217,468,696 during his time in the league.
That’s enough to give his hometown the top spot, well ahead of his nearest competitor, Derek Fisher ($64,160,721 in career earnings).
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Next up is Bobby Portis with $52,284,154 in career earnings, and he will likely pass Fisher on his next contract.
Moses Moody still has some way to go to catch up with $11,220,840, and Archie Godwin is the next best thing with $5,765,089.
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