Top 30 best paid players in Europe | | | NAME | CLUB | YEARLY WAGE
| 1.
| Josh Childress
| Olympiacos
| €4,500,000 | 2.
| Theodoros Papaloukas
| Olympiacos
| €3,500,000 | 3.
| Juan Carlos Navarro
| Barcelona
| €2,800,000 | 4.
| Matjaz Smodis
| CSKA Moscow
| €2,500,000 | | 5. | Linas Kleiza
| Olympiacos | €2,300,000 | 6.
| Dimitris Diamantidis
| Panathinaikos
| €2,100,000 | 7.
| Ramunas Siskauskas | CSKA Moscow | €2,000,000 | 8.
| Gordan Giricek
| Fenerbahce
| €2,000,000 | 9.
| Nikola Vujcic
| Olympiacos
| €2,000,000 | 10.
| Vassilis Spanoulis | Panathinaikos | €1,900,000 | 11.
| Igor Rakocevic
| Efes Pilsen
| €1,830,000 | | 12. | Felipe Reyes
| Real Madrid
| €1,800,000 | 13.
| Fran Vazquez
| Barcelona | €1,800,000 | | 14. | Von Wafer
| Olympiacos | €1,750,000 | 15.
| Ioannis Bouroussis
| Olympiacos | €1,670,000 | 16.
| Trajan Langdon
| CSKA Moscow
| €1,600,000 | 17.
| Viktor Khryapa
| CSKA Moscow
| €1,600,000 | 18.
| Mike Batiste
| Panathinaikos | €1,500,000 | 19.
| Antonis Fotsis
| Panathinaikos | €1,500,000 | 20.
| Thiago Splitter
| TAU Ceramica
| €1,400,000 | | 21. | Nikola Pekovic
| Panathinaikos | €1,300,000 | | 22. | Zoran Planinic
| CSKA Moscow
| €1,300,000 | | 23. | Drew Nicholas
| Panathinaikos | €1,300,000 | | 24. | Mario Kasun
| Efes Pilsen
| €1,200,000 | | 25. | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
| Olympiacos | €1,200,000 | 26.
| Giorgos Printezis
| Unicaja Malaga
| €1,150,000 | | 27. | Alex Hervelle
| Real Madrid
| €1,150,000 | | 28. | Henry Domercant
| Montepaschi Siena
| €1,100,000 | | 29. | Kosta Perovic
| Valencia | €1,100,000 | | 30. | Kresimir Loncar
| UNICS | €1,050,000 |
Current exchange rate: 1 EURO = 1.485 USD (December 5, 2009)
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