Eric Musselman isn’t just the highest-paid coach in Wolf Pack athletics history. He’ll also be the highest-paid public employee in the state of Nevada and highest-paid basketball coach in the Mountain West.
Musselman’s five-year extension, which Nevada announced Tuesday, is worth $5 million. Financial details of the deal were released Wednesday. He will earn $1 million in guaranteed money in 2017-18, which tops the Pack’s previous record of $585,000, earned by football coach Brian Polian last season. Musselman's contract calls for $1 million in base salary per season through 2021-22.
Kayvan Khiabani, a reconstructive surgery specialist and profession at UNR’s school of medicine, was the highest-paid public employee in Nevada in 2016 at $987,638.