Charles Barkley will have a new FanDuel commercial rolling out during NBA playoff coverage, and 106.7 The Fan host Danny Rouhier will be featured in it. In the 30-second spot, Charles Barkley promotes same-game parlays and says if you're betting on your favorite players, you have to think like your favorite players.

Charles Barkley signed a new “life-altering” contract in October last year. He has three more years of his existing contract, which guarantees an impressive annual salary of $10 million.

The TV spot, narrated by actor John Malkovich, debuts at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday during Game 5 of Celtics-Sixers on TNT and will be all over the league's social media accounts and its app. “We're looking to really raise awareness while the playoffs are still going,” Henault said.

$20,000 is the 25th percentile. Salaries below this are outliers. $32,000 is the 75th percentile.

NBA National Basketball Association spent under $100 million on advertising in digital, print, and national TV in the last year. They invest in premium ad units and advertised on over 250 different Media Properties in the last year across multiple Media formats.

Throughout the spot, NBA legends, sports icons and pop culture celebrities feverishly watch The Finals with bated breath, including rapper and NBA ambassador SUGA, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel and NFL champions and legends Peyton Manning and Eli Manning.

Disney sold last-minute :30 ads for the NBA Finals for $1.2 million. Front Office Sports reported Disney had 240 different advertisers, an increase from last year's 184. In addition, Disney added 91 new advertisers.

According to the report, Kevin Costner is possibly the highest-paid actor on TV, taking home $1.3 million per episode for his performance in Yellowstone.

A single 30-second spot costs an advertiser around $4.5 million, so it's no surprise that the celebrities who, more and more, are appearing in them also collect a big payday. “It ranges from $500,000 to $2 million depending on the commercial and the celebrity,” says one local ad exec who's worked on Super Bowl spots.

Over the past years, NBA has gained significant popularity and a significant increase in players' salaries has made it one of the best paid sports league worldwide. In 2019, the NBA's average annual salary reached 8.32 million U.S. dollars per player and total salaries approximated to 3.67 billion U.S. dollars.

$657,000 per post But two of the biggest athletes of the last 20 years make the Top-3 of the highest-paid by Instagram. LeBron James is too far down the list, although he does make a respectable $657,000 per post with his impressive 121 million folllowers on Instagram alone.

Joel Embiid Joel Embiid, 29, of the Philadelphia 76ers, is the 2023 NBA Most Valuable Player, beating Denver's Nikola Jokić and Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo by a comfortable margin. Results for the league's most hallowed individual award were announced Tuesday night live on TNT.