Mel Daniels Net Worth 2018: What is this basketball player worth?
Mel Daniels was a professional basketball player. Daniels’s weight was 220 pounds. Daniels died on October 30, 2015, in Sheridan, Indiana. Daniels was born on July 20, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Daniels’s height was 6 ft 9 in. This article takes a deep dive into Mel Daniels’s net worth.
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Mel Daniels Career and Earnings/Salary
In high school, Mel Daniels played basketball for Pershing High School (Detroit, Michigan). Daniels played basketball in college with, Burlington CC (1963-1964), and New Mexico Lobos men’s basketball (1964-1967) and started playing professionally in 1967. In the 1967 draft, Daniels was chosen number 9 in round 1 by the Cincinnati Royals. Daniels left the game of basketball in 1976.
Daniels played for the Minnesota Muskies during 1967-68 ABA season as well as the Indiana Pacers in 1968-69 ABA season 1973-74 ABA season. Later, Daniels played for the Memphis Sounds throughout 1974-75 ABA season, and the New York Nets over 1976-. Some of the highlights of Mel Daniels’s career included: 3× List of ABA champions, 2× Most Valuable Player, 7× ABA All-Star, ABA All-Star Game MVP, 4× All-ABA Team, All-ABA Second Team, Rookie of the Year, All-Rookie Team, ABA All-Time Team, No. 34 Hall of Famers and retired numbers, Consensus second-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans, and 2× First-team All-Western Athletic Conference.
Daniels set a career record of 11,778 (18.4 ppg) points, 9,528 (14.9 rpg) rebounds, and 1,140 (1.8 apg) assists.
Mel Daniels Net Worth 2018
Player annual payments can range between a few thousand dollars and tens of millions of dollars per annum, depending on a number of statistics. Although most professional NBA players earn a salary of nearly $2 million, a few with D-league crossover agreements earn as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is nearly $100 million, although as of today nobody makes anywhere near that much money. The top players in the league earn nearly $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, yearly earnings can go below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
Mel Daniels net worth: basketball salary distribution
So what was basketball player Mel Daniels’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Mel Daniels’s net worth at death is:
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