Former NBA champion Trevor Ariza, who played eighteen seasons in the league and earned approximately one hundred and sixteen million dollars in career salary, listed an average of six thousand dollars in monthly income as a trainer for the disabled on a Sunday, June 14, 2026, income and expense declaration filed in his ongoing post-divorce action with ex-wife Bree Anderson Ariza, according to TMZ. The new filing also reports that he made only two thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars in the last month, plus about six hundred and sixty-seven dollars in monthly income from his Buffalo Wild Wings franchise stake.
The asset side of the same declaration lists roughly fifty thousand dollars in cash and bank accounts and approximately two and a half million dollars in real property. Ariza is asking the family court to recalculate his monthly child support obligation, which previously stood at fourteen thousand dollars per month to Bree Anderson alone, on top of ten thousand in additional child support owed for other children and four thousand in spousal support.
The new declaration is the second iteration of the same fight Ariza opened in the family court last summer. The July 2025 filing had described total monthly expenses above thirty-seven thousand dollars and a negative two hundred and thirty thousand dollar bank balance, a posture Bree Anderson's side characterized as a paper case rather than a working accounting of his finances. The Sunday filing is structurally a narrower update, focused on present-tense income rather than the broader expense build, which suggests Ariza's side is trying to reset the courtroom conversation around present earnings instead of the legacy-financial picture.
The trainer-for-the-disabled work itself reads as a meaningful career pivot rather than a paper hustle. Ariza, who retired in 2022 after eighteen NBA seasons spread across the Knicks, the Magic, the Lakers, the Wizards, the Rockets, the Trail Blazers, the Wizards again, the Heat, the Kings, the Lakers again, and the Hornets, had cited body-and-mind community work as the second-act focus in his retirement-tour interviews. The new declaration puts numbers on that work for the first time in court, and the gap between the six-thousand-monthly average and the two-thousand-three-hundred-sixteen last-month draw shows the income volatility the gig has across a typical month.
The Buffalo Wild Wings figure is the small detail that sets the broader investment posture. Ariza retains a franchise-stake position in the chain through his ownership group of multiple Southern California locations, and the six-hundred-sixty-seven monthly distribution is consistent with a passive position rather than an operating role. The post-NBA player-owned restaurant pattern, which a generation of former stars from Magic Johnson to LeBron James used as a wealth-preservation playbook, is the model the Buffalo Wild Wings position came from, but the modest current draw suggests the position is parked rather than actively producing yield.
The opposing-side narrative will shape the next courtroom session. Bree Anderson's filings across the divorce action have asked the judge to order Ariza to sell assets to support the children's continued lifestyle, with her lawyers describing the household standard of living that included private chefs, a Rolls Royce in the driveway, and the specific schools and activities the children had been enrolled in through the marriage. The Sunday filing does not address those lifestyle claims directly, which leaves the question of whether the children's standard of living can or should be matched by the new income picture as the open issue for the next hearing.
What sits ahead is the family court calendar. The next hearing date in the action is set for late July, and Ariza's side will need to convince the bench that the income picture is the operating reality and not a transitional figure. The broader pattern, of NBA-level career earners arriving in family court ten years post-retirement with the math no longer holding, is the analytical thread legal observers will read against this filing. The Ariza case is the most public version of that pattern this season, and the late-July ruling will produce the precedent that other post-retirement support modification filings will quote across the second half of the year.
