Phoenix Suns' Big 3 Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker among 10 highest-paid NBA players

Mat Ishbia has already shown the willingness to spend major money in his first year as Phoenix Suns' team owner.

Phoenix has the NBA highest team payroll for the 2024-25 season at $227.6 million . Combine that with the estimated luxury tax bill of nearly $200 million, the Suns are the first $400-million NBA team.

Most of their payroll is tied up in three players -- Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and Devin Booker. They have three of the 10 highest-paid NBA players for this upcoming 2024-25 season .

Durant and Beal are fourth and fifth, respectively, behind Stephen Curry, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid. Booker, Durant and Beal will make a combined $150.5 million this season.

1. Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) $55,761,217.

2. Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) $51,415,938.

3. Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) $51,415,938.

4. Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns) $51,179,020.

5. Bradley Beal (Phoenix Suns) $50,203,930.

6 through 10 (tied):

Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns) $49,205,800.

Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics) $49,205,800.

Karl-Anthony Towns (Minnesota Timberwolves) $49,205,800.

Paul George (Philadelphia 76ers) $49,205,800.

Kawhi Leonard (Los Angeles Clippers) $49,205,800.

HoopsHype provided the team and player salaries.

Jusuf Nurkic is Phoenix's fourth-highest player this season at $18,125,00, which ranks 96th on the list of NBA's highest-paid players for 2024-25. He is in the third year of a four-year, $70-million deal he signed in Portland.

Booker is in the first year of his supermax deal of four years, $220-plus million. Durant has two years left on his four-year, $194-million deal he signed with Brooklyn but is eligible for a one-year extension of $59.7 million for the 2026-27 season.

Beal has three years remaining on his five-year, $251-million deal he signed with Washington. The Suns traded for Durant, Beal and Nurkic in Ishbia's first year as team owner.

Phoenix finished 49-33 in its first year with the Big 3 of Booker, Durant and Beal to land the sixth seed in the West, but was the first team eliminated from last season's playoffs. Minnesota swept the Suns in the first round.

The Suns open the 2024-25 season Oct. 23 at the Los Angeles Clippers.

Have opinions about the current state of the Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at dmrankin@gannett.com or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at @DuaneRankin .

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