Salaries: Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA) have the highest average salary (€7.53m) in the world in 2016

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With an average salary of £6.54m (or €7.53m as of 14/11/2016) per player, the Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA) are the sports team whose average annual salary per player is the highest in the world, according to "Global Sports Salaries Survey 2016", a study by the British website Sporting Intelligence and published on 14/11/2016.

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