Big differences in the team
This is what the German European Basketball European champions deserve
15.09.2025 – 12:56 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
With the European Championship title, the German national basketball team has secured the next success. Your careers are also worth it financially – if not the same for everyone.
Germany is world and European champions: With the 88: 83 success in the European Championship final against Turkey, the German national basketball team made a historical success and, according to the 2023 World Cup title, now keeps both big titles for the first time.
This has achieved a “golden generation” of basketball, which currently represents more NBA players than ever before, but also has some extremely successful players from the Bundesliga or other European leagues.
While the players are now allowed to celebrate their sporting success together, there are very large discrepancies in the team in the financial success. Because the stars of the NBA deserve the multiple of their teammates from Europe.
The top earner of the DBB team is Franz Wagner. Born in Berlin, the NBA is under contract with the Orlando Magic and is one of the absolute top performers. That is why Wagner also signed a contract extension last year, which he reported to be in the case of 2030 at least $ 224 million (equivalent to EUR 190.6 million).
By premiums, the sum could even increase to $ 269 million (229 million euros). This corresponds to an annual salary between 27.2 and 32.7 million euros. Wagner is not only the best -earning German basketball player, but the best -earning German athlete as a whole.
The Orlando Magic also pay for the salary of two other German national players. Franz Wagner’s older brother Moritz also plays in the Florida, where he can look forward to an annual salary of around 9.5 million euros. However, he missed the European Championship due to injury. Unlike Tristan da Silva, who in Orlando as a new NBA newcomer is to earn a fairly small content of “only” around 3.1 million euros a year.
National team captain Dennis Schröder, on the other hand, is one of the old hands in the American professional business. Several times, the 32-year-old usually changed the teams through trades within the NBA. Schröder is currently under contract with the Sacramento Kings and is expected to earn almost 13 million euros per year there.
Another top German earner was also not at the European Championship. Isaiah Hartenstein missed the European Championship due to Achilles tendon problems. He won the NBA title last season with the Oklahoma City Thunder-as the second German after Dirk Nowitzki. The 27-year-old is also well positioned financially. He earns almost $ 25 million a year.