Minnesota Timberwolves career earnings
$1,601,765,905 across 21 careers, led by Karl-Anthony Towns on $416,840,523.
Every man on the roster, ranked by what his contracts have been worth across his whole career rather than by what this franchise is paying him now. It comes to 3.6% of the money in the NBA file.
Minnesota Timberwolves at a glance
What the roster has been paid
- Career money
- $1,601,765,905
- Careers
- 21
- Per career
- $76,274,567
- Paid through 2026-27
- $1,445,959,505
- Still to be paid
- $155,806,400
- Rank
- 10 of 30 franchises
The Minnesota Timberwolves squad page carries the current roster and what each man is paid this season. What follows is the other question: what those same men have earned across every season of their careers.
The fifteen richest Minnesota Timberwolves careers
Total contract money, 2007 to 2028
Every Minnesota Timberwolves career
Ranked by total contract money
| # | Player | Position | Seasons | Span | Still owed | Career earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Karl-Anthony Towns Paid in 2026-27 | Center | 13 | 2015 to 2027 | $64.9m | $416,840,523$416.8m |
| 02 | Rudy Gobert | Center | 13 | 2013 to 2025 | - | $307,690,342$307.7m |
| 03 | Mike Conley | Point Guard | 17 | 2007 to 2023 | - | $274,127,986$274.1m |
| 04 | Anthony Edwards Paid in 2026-27 | Shooting Guard | 9 | 2020 to 2028 | $90.9m | $250,171,137$250.2m |
| 05 | Kyle Anderson | Power Forward | 10 | 2014 to 2023 | - | $60,169,578$60.2m |
| 06 | Naz Reid | Center | 7 | 2019 to 2025 | - | $48,032,745$48.0m |
| 07 | Ed Davis | Center | 11 | 2010 to 2020 | - | $43,845,053$43.8m |
| 08 | Juan Hernangomez | Power Forward | 7 | 2016 to 2022 | - | $30,381,426$30.4m |
| 09 | Jarrett Culver | Shooting Guard | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $26,422,143$26.4m |
| 10 | Troy Brown Jr. | Shooting Guard | 7 | 2018 to 2024 | - | $24,278,922$24.3m |
| 11 | Nickeil Alexander-Walker | Shooting Guard | 6 | 2019 to 2024 | - | $22,203,772$22.2m |
| 12 | Shake Milton | Shooting Guard | 6 | 2019 to 2024 | - | $16,901,390$16.9m |
| 13 | Noah Vonleh | Power Forward | 6 | 2014 to 2019 | - | $15,039,928$15.0m |
| 14 | Jake Layman | Small Forward | 6 | 2016 to 2021 | - | $14,516,943$14.5m |
| 15 | Wendell Moore Jr. | Shooting Guard | 4 | 2022 to 2025 | - | $11,839,563$11.8m |
| 16 | Jaden McDaniels | Power Forward | 4 | 2020 to 2023 | - | $10,090,879$10.1m |
| 17 | Leonard Miller Paid in 2026-27 | Small Forward | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | - | $8,319,739$8.3m |
| 18 | Josh Minott | Small Forward | 4 | 2022 to 2025 | - | $6,944,795$6.9m |
| 19 | Jaylen Nowell | Shooting Guard | 4 | 2019 to 2022 | - | $6,543,783$6.5m |
| 20 | Jordan McLaughlin | Point Guard | 3 | 2021 to 2023 | - | $6,480,000$6.5m |
| 21 | Luka Garza | Center | 1 | 2021 | - | $925,258 |
Minnesota Timberwolves money by season
What these careers were paid, year by year
2025-26 is the biggest year on this chart at $165,549,848. A roster assembled recently draws a spike rather than a run: the chart follows the men who are here now, wherever they were paid it.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the highest paid Minnesota Timberwolves player?
Karl-Anthony Towns. His contracts are worth $416,840,523 across 13 seasons from 2015 to 2027.
What have Minnesota Timberwolves players earned in total?
$1,601,765,905 across 21 careers, an average of $76,274,567 each. That is 3.6% of every dollar in the NBA file.
How does that rank?
Minnesota Timberwolves is 10 of 30 franchises by total career money, behind Atlanta Hawks on $1,622,343,214 and ahead of Philadelphia 76ers on $1,579,954,014.
How many are still being paid?
3 of the 21 have a figure against the 2026-27 season, and $155,806,400 is written into deals that run past it.
Is this the Minnesota Timberwolves payroll?
No. It is career money carried by the current roster: everything each man's contracts have been worth across every season, at this franchise or anywhere else. A payroll is one season and this is every one of them.
The franchises either side
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