NBA's Summer Splurging

[Biclops]

When I first heard the Suns paid Steve Nash 60 million for 6 years; I knew he would make out team better but my initial reaction was *whoa* we sure overpaid him.

But as the summer goes on it seems like 60 million for Steve Nash seems like a very reasonable price. Looking at the list below; we have a proven All-Star while other teams are overpaying for mediocre talent.

The way this summer is going on; I wouldnt be even surprised if I see a headline that says...

"Ostertag signs with (insert team) for 4 yrs / 22 million"

I am now extremely happy with the Nash signing and just hope that the Suns can add Q to strenthgen our bench even more


Suns
Steve Nash - 6 yrs / 60 million
Quentin Richardson - 6 yrs / 48 million (RFA)

Carlos Boozer - 6 yrs / 68 million (RFA)
Brian Cardinal - 6 yrs / 39 million
Mark Blount - 6 yrs / 41 million (RFA)
Hedo Turkoglu - 6 yrs / 39 million (RFA)
Manu Ginobli - 6 yrs / 50-55 million (RFA)
Brian Skinner - 5 yrs / 25 million
Carlos Arroyo - 4 yrs / 16 million
Rafer Alston - 6yrs / 29 million
Mehmet Okur - 6yrs / 45 million (RFA)
Adonal Foyle - 5 yrs / 41.6 million
Marquis Daniels - 6 yrs / 38 million

Go Suns !!!

 

[NJYAJ09]

I think Foyle, Cardinal, and Okur are the three who got overpaid the most this offseason.

 

[George O'Brien]

I'm not sure there are that many guys who were grossly overpaid. I think it is just that too many people on this board had unrealistic expectations about how cheap some of these guys might be based on their previous contracts.

For four months I have been telling people that Camby was going to be extremely expensive, but there was this fantasy that he would do a deal starting at $6 million. Foyle was injured, but the last year of his previous deal was for $4.4 million, yet people thought he might go for less.

I will admit that I've been a little surprised. I had Nash going for about $7 to $8 million to start. But I was right on the money with Blount, Etan Thomas, and Okur. If anything, Okur may have been a bit less than I expected though not a lot.

It really is too bad we didn't set a "price is right" game to see who was the closest. Maybe next year.

 

[Dave64]

Foyle for 41M is a total joke. That is about 14M per point on his average last year. The Warriors are a bad team for a reason. They let good players go and they overpay stiffs like Foyle. And they draft guys like Dunleavy,, who gets replaced in the starting 5 by a janitor!

 

[elindholm]

It really is too bad we didn't set a "price is right" game to see who was the closest. Maybe next year.

You still want to play with McDyess? Your estimate has at least doubled in the past month, so you have quite a range covered.

 

[JCSunsfan]

There were a couple of things in the free agent market this year that drove up prices.

More teams cleared cap space than was originally expected--call it Kobe fever.

There were not that many quality free agents available. We didn't have a Grant Hill, Tim Duncan, Tracy McGrady type of year. Supply and demand.

Everybody geared up for Kobe, and then they were "all dressed up with no place to go." So they spent money.

The Suns quick signing of Nash was kind of a shocker. I think GMs had hoped to kind of play it cool and bid up reasonably, but the Suns threw the first punch and then the free agent brawl was on.