Kawhi Leonard Joins LeBron, More In Exclusive NBA Earnings Club After New Raptors Contract

Kawhi Leonard is on track to join an exclusive club of players making half a billion in NBA salary after agreeing to an extension with the Toronto Raptors.

Leonard has agreed to a two-year, $115 million extension with the Raptors after his trade from the Los Angeles Clippers was finalized last week, per ESPN's Shams Charania .

The new deal is set to bring Leonard's total career earnings to $543 million, per ESPN's Bobby Marks .

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LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry are the only players who will have received more than $500 million in NBA career earnings by the end of the 2026-27 season, per Spotrac .

Leonard and James Harden are on track to join that club in the future after signing their extensions with the Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers, respectively.

James leads all players with $585 million in career earnings through the end of the 2026-27 season, per Spotrac . He is followed on the list by Durant ($545 million) and Curry ($532 million).

The three-year, $97 million extension Harden agreed to last month with the Cavaliers is set to bring his career earnings to a total of $511 million, per Charania .

By the time Leonard's extension wraps up at the end of the 2029-30 season, Spotrac projects three more players will have eclipsed the $500 million mark in the Phoenix Suns' Devin Booker, Boston Celtics' Paul George and Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid.

On track to join the club by the end of the 2030-31 campaign is the Cavaliers' Donovan Mitchell, per Spotrac.

Leonard has received the bulk of his career earnings from the Clippers ($291.8 million) to go along with $185.4 million from the Raptors and $63.4 million from the San Antonio Spurs, per Spotrac . He was ranked by Forbes as the world's 37th highest-paid athlete of 2026.

His extension with the Raptors comes shortly after the NBA issued him a $700,000 fine as part of its investigation into alleged salary cap circumvention by the Clippers.

Leonard, who averaged 27.9 points in 65 games during a resurgent final season with the Clippers, will now head back to Toronto for the first time since leading his former team to a title in 2019.