The top-payed player in
the first year of the NBA was the Detroit Falcon's Tom King who made
$16,500. He managed this salary by not only playing for the team
(salary $8,000 plus a $500 signing bonus) but also by convincing the
team owner to hire him to be the publicity manager and business
director for which he was paid an additional $8,000. Photos exist of
King, still in his uniform with a typewriter on the bleachers,
hammering out a press release after a game.
Chuck Conners, best known as 'The Rifleman', played for the Boston
Celtics in the first year of the NBA.
The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West. He is also the
silhouette for the Mountaineer which stands outside the Mountainlair
(student center) at West Virginia University.
