Brittney Griner Net Worth
Former WNBA player Brittney Griner is now playing for Zhejiang Golden Bulls in China. It’s common for female WNBA player to end up overseas since salaries in basketball aren’t that high for women in USA. Highest-paid female player are making about $100,000 annually. Griner’s salary in China is $600,000 per year. Her estimated net worth is $2 million.
Griner is definitely a talented player. She helped US to win gold medal at 2014 World Championship in Turkey. Maybe it’s time that American basketball team invest more also into female player. But we get the problem….there’s not enough fans to justify salaries as high as in NBA. Still some financial boost focusing on salaries and advertisements could revive this interesting sport.
Griner’s net worth belong to the highest among her colleagues. She played basketball already on Nimitz High School and continued at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Top athletes like her have always several universities fighting over them. College education = guaranteed. In WNBA, Griner joined Phoenix Mercury team.
Brittney is married to a fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson since 2015. She’s open about her sexual orientation since one interview she gave in 2013. During her rookie season in Phoenix mercury, Griner had annual salary of $50,000. When you compare to her initial offer from China, you’ll find out she’s making now twelve times more. So expect her net worth to rise pretty dramatically in following years.
