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European Basketball League Players Update Browser UpgradeEuropean Basketball League Players Upgrade To TheEurope Basketball Academy is affiliated with 224 FIBA certified agents from all European countries that are informed on daily basis about players that successfully complete Pro Placement Program. ![]() European Basketball League Players Professional Athletes InNews UK Politics Brexit World Health Education Technology Science Environment Business Long Reads Opinion Columnists Comment Editor Your Views Lifestyle Travel Food and Drink Wellbeing Money People Women Homes and Gardens Cars Distractions Culture TV Film Music Arts Books Gaming Radio Sport Football Cricket Rugby Union Formula 1 Search Culture Television Ovie Soko salary: how much do European basketball players earn compared to NBAs multimillionaire superstars Ovie Soko doesnt play in the NBA, the worlds highest-paid league so how much could a player of the Love Island stars standard earn By David Hughes July 29, 2019 11:32 am Updated October 8, 2020 11:36 am Ovie Soko is one of a series of professional athletes in Love Island 2019 (Photo: Getty Images) Ovie Soko, the Love Island contestant whose phlegmatic demeanour, sartorial magnificence and heartfelt, patiently delivered advice have endeared him to fans, is one of a series of professional athletes in this years villa. A professional basketball player, who represents the Great Britain national side, he joins the likes of light-heavyweight boxer Tommy Fury and Ireland sevens rugby player Greg OShea in a jock-heavy line-up. As a basketball player people use you The 28-year-olds hitherto unruffled outlook was shaken somewhat as the show entered its final week, when the notorious headline challenge revealed tabloid reports which suggested his partner India Reynolds was being motivated by money. Following the challenge, Soko sought out his previous partner, Amber Gill, and confided why his experience as a professional sportsman led him to find such insinuations particularly troubling. As a basketball player, 90 per cent of things I wouldnt change about my job for the world. The one thing I would change is just the fact that people use you, a lot. The second they see any potential they use you and then they throw you away. From the outside, people will ask: Why are you single Thats probably 75-80 per cent the reason why Im single. He had told other contestants that women have come after me for my money, and said having money made him lonely but how much would a sportsman of his calibre expect to earn Soko went through the US college system but didnt make the NBA (Photo: Getty Images) NBA: the worlds highest-paid sports league The huge salaries of NBA basketball players dominate headlines across the US, with protracted contract sagas like the LeBron James move to Miami Heat in 2010 leading the sports news agenda for months. Even that doesnt make him the highest-paid player in the NBA, with the Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Currys 166 million four-year deal including a league leading 37.5 million last season. According to data published by Sporting Intelligence in the 2018 edition of its Global Sports Salaries Survey, the NBA is comfortably the top paying league in world sport, with average basic salaries for first team players of 7.8 million, over 6 million. Soko, though, doesnt play in the NBA he went through the US college basketball system, but went undrafted in 2014 following his senior year, and instead moved to France and then Greece to fulfil his dreams of becoming a pro. The headline challenge left the unflappable Love Island star unusually ruffled (Photo: ITV) How much European pros earn UCAM Murcia, the team he represented as a small forward last season (despite standing at six foot seven), competes in the Liga ACB, the Spanish top flight, which like its football counterpart is dominated by Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. Basketball is second in popularity to football in Spain, and the Liga ACB has a reputation as the strongest domestic basketball league in Europe. ![]() Last year, the website Eurohoops estimated that the highest-paid Euroleague stars have annual salaries in the millions of dollars, with the top Real Madrid and Barcelona players earning around 2 million (1.6 million). Soko could not be expected to earn anything like this bracket unsurprisingly, Real and Barca are thought to have the biggest budgets in Europe but he was very much a first-team regular for UCAM Murcia last season, starting 30 out of 34 games as they finished 14th out of 18 teams. Average salaries in the Liga ACB are thought to be around or upwards of the 100,000 mark, so, despite basketball not enjoying a particularly high status as a sport in Britain, a player of the Love Island stars ability could expect to earn a very comfortable wage. 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