How much do NBA players get paid during the playoffs?

Is it the same ammount as to how they get paid in the regular NBA season? How does it exactly work? For example, lebron has played in every playoff game this season whereas nate robinson has only played like two... how much do they get paid for the playoffs?|||NBA players don't get paid for the postseason, at least not directly. Their salary is spaced out over the 82 games of the regular season, and once the postseason arrives, they're not owed any more money. That's one reason why ownership is so eager to make the postseason, because every home playoff game is pure profit.





That's not to say that the players don't continue to make money during the playoffs. The NBA itself distributes bonus money to the teams that make the playoffs, with the amount varying by how far the team advances. Here's the bonus list from the 2007 season:





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As you can see, it's not much compared to the money that the top players make, but it's still millions of dollars. Players have private meetings to decide how that money will be divided, and in most instances the guys with big contracts will give up their share and let the bonus be split up amongst their lower paid team members, and the trainers and other clubhouse guys.|||They get paid all season and playoffs (If they get there), as seen in their contract. For example, Shaq signs a one year guaranteed contract for $1.3 million with the Celtics. He got injured and missed 7 of 9 games in the playoffs. Despite missing those games (and the majority of the season), Shaq will still receive his full $1.3 million and will not be paid anymore after game 5 with the Heat until he uses the player option part of his contract or signs a new contract. The same rule applies for DeMar DeRozen. If DeMar is on his last year of his rookie contract with the Raptors, he will receive the amount of money that is specified in his contract. Since he is with the Raptors, he will stop being paid at the end of the regular season and doesn't have to worry about the playoffs. In short, there is no "overtime" pay, just one flat rate as negotiated in their contracts.