It’s ahead of Derrick Rose’s 13-year, $US185 million contract with Adidas, but behind players like Kevin Durant, who recently spurned Under Armour and re-signed with Nike on a deal worth in the neighbourhood of $US30 million per year for 10 years, and LeBron James, who Forbes estimates makes $US20 million per year on his Nike deal. Rovell says in the past Nike would let Harden walk.
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James Harden is the most unlikely of the NBA’s crop of 2010′s superstars, and should he accept the Adidas offer that’s made headlines everywhere this morning, he’ll immediately be one of the highest paid.
According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, Adidas has extended an offer to Harden that will keep him in their sneakers for the remaining years of his National Basketball Association career.
Nike can still match Harden’s Adidas offer by the end of next week. Lillard is on a team that is unlikely to make any noise this upcoming season and Wall has shown potential to possibly carry the brand but Harden would be the face of the company’s sneaker line. Harden signed an $80 million contract extension with Houston in 2012 that goes by means of the 2017-18 season. This past year, Adidas fell to the No. 3 best-selling apparel brand in the United States, after being passed by Under Armour. In Harden’s deal, nevertheless, Adidas has to win if Nike can not match the deal provided. Earlier this yr, Adidas introduced that it might not battle to resume that deal, which can see its competitor Nike take over after the 2016-17 season.
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If they land him, Adidas will make Harden and his beard the face of their basketball shoe line. Harden finished last season with the seventh-best selling jersey in the National Basketball Association.
