Simmons: Best and Worst Contracts of the NBA

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071218



BEST CONTRACTS

The 15 most cap-appealing NBA contracts that aren't rookie deals:

15. Jeff Foster: 2 years, $11.9m
14. Josh Howard: 4 years, $39.6m
13. Caron Butler: 4 years, $37.5m
12. David West: 4 years, $37.9m
11. Hedu Turkoglu: 3 years, $20.6m
10. James Posey: 2 years, $6.6m
9. Drew Gooden: 2 years, $13.5m
8. Kendrick Perkins: 4 years, $17m
7. Carlos Boozer: 3 years, $35.9m
6. Ron Artest: 2 years, $16.3m
5. Leandro Barbosa: 5 years, $33m
4. Grant Hill: 2 years, $3.8m
3. Marcus Camby: 3 years, $25.6-$35m
2. Manu Ginobili: 3 years, $29.8m
1. Steve Nash: 3 years, $39.7m


WORST CONTRACTS

Just for fun, the 25 worst contracts in the league:

25. Quentin Richardson: 3 years, $26.3m
24. Sam Dalembert: 4 years, $43.8m
23. Nene: 5 years, $51m
22. Raef LaFrentz: 2 years, $24.5m
21. Boris Diaw: 5 years, $45m
20. Brian Cardinal: 3 years, $18.9m
19. Marcus Banks: 4 years, $17.2m
18. Jerome James: 3 years, $18.6m
17. Shaquille O'Neal: 3 years, $60m
16. Zack Randolph: 4 years, $63.3m
15. Etan Thomas: 3 years, 20.6m
14. Mark Blount: 3 years, $22m
13. Shareef Abdur-Rahim: 3 years, $18.6m
12. Kenny Thomas: 3 years, $23.9m
11. Jared Jeffries: 4 years, $24m
10. Nazr Mohammed: 4 years, $25m
9. Dan Gadzuric: 4 years, $26m
8. Bobby Simmons: 3 years, $29.8m
7. Ben Wallace: 3 years, $44m
6. Darius Miles: 3 years, $26.3m
5. Stephon Marbury: 2 years, $42m
4. Erick Dampier: 4 years, $41.5m
3. Troy Murphy: 4 years, $42.4m
2. Larry Hughes: 3 years, $38.5
1. Kenyon Martin: 4 years, $59m
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Horray for 3 in the top 5!

I think Hill should definitely be in top 3 if not tied with Nash.

If Diaw were to return to his 05-06 form he would swap categories.

Larry Hughes' contract is totally worse than Kenyon's.

What a waste of space banks is...

 

[mathbzh]

17. Shaquille O'Neal: 3 years, $60m

With this contract O'neal helped Miami winning a title. Even if he doesn't deserve a $20m a year contract anymore I would not have him on the worst contract list.

 

[taz02]

Anyone find it funny that the suns are responsible for 4 of the top 25 worst contracts in the league.

Of course they have 3 of the best to help balance.

 

[Bufalay]

Anyone find it funny that the suns are responsible for 4 of the top 25 worst contracts in the league.

Of course they have 3 of the best to help balance.

thank God for Isaiah Thomas.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

With this contract O'neal helped Miami winning a title. Even if he doesn't deserve a $20m a year contract anymore I would not have him on the worst contract list.

He is talking about this year, not accouting past accomplishments. He does one every year.
he even prefaces that in the article by showing how shocked he is since shaw has been at the top 25 for nearly a decade

 

[Chaplin]

Does anyone else find it amazing that there are 18 worse contracts than Banks in the league? That is pretty mind boggling.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Its actually amazing that Amare isn't on one list or the other.

 

[Mainstreet]

The Banks contract rubs me wrong the most. He has not produced much of anything for the money he is paid.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Also, 16 of the top 18 are forwards or centers.

 

[taz02]

How about the worst contract in suns history? I vote for Hardaway

 

[jbeecham]

Tom Gugliotta was a pretty bad contract too, although I guess had had 1-2 good years here before all of the injuries & life-threatening seizure.

 

[Bufalay]

Anyone find it funny that the suns are responsible for 4 of the top 25 worst contracts in the league.

Of course they have 3 of the best to help balance.

Tom Gugliotta was a pretty bad contract too, although I guess had had 1-2 good years here before all of the injuries & life-threatening seizure.

What about Grant Hill?

 

[jbeecham]

What about Grant Hill?

Well we were talking about the worst contracts the Suns had signed someone to. Grant Hill would be on Orlando's list of worst contracts in their history.

 

[Skkorpion]

Troy Murphy. Ugh. Fellow Irishman and NBA loser supreme.

Wish I was 6'10", slow, selfish, pouty, lazy defensively and had a gazillion dollar contract! He is the biggest winner on both lists. Brings nothing to the table and hauls away gads and gads.

 

[dodie53]

trade Diaw for Dalembert.

 

[Matt L]

Why do people get angry at the players who get paid and really don't spout off about the people who are giving away these astronomical salaries. Banks, Diaw, Murphy, it seems everyone begrudges the player for not performing up to these salary expectations but some schlepp obviously gave them these ridiculous contracts.

 

[hsandhu]

I honestly don't see how diaw isn't number 1 on that list.

It is the longest remaining contract, 5 years. And it is at a big number, 9 million a year for not doing a damn thing.

 

[jbeecham]

Why do people get angry at the players who get paid and really don't spout off about the people who are giving away these astronomical salaries. Banks, Diaw, Murphy, it seems everyone begrudges the player for not performing up to these salary expectations but some schlepp obviously gave them these ridiculous contracts.

Well a lot of teams are being forced to give these kind of contracts by player & agent demands or they risk losing the player for nothing. If they offer a lower & more reasonable contract offer then they risk pissing off the player to the point of him not wanting to play there anymore at all (see Joe Johnson). Then you have the players that have 1 good year or half-year and then expect large contracts and owners give it to them because they think they'll continue to improve and then they don't improve or even worse they regress (see Boris Diaw).

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I honestly don't see how diaw isn't number 1 on that list.

It is the longest remaining contract, 5 years. And it is at a big number, 9 million a year for not doing a damn thing.

No. You are getting noting from Kenyon Martin. Diaw contributes every 5th game or so.

 

[CaptainInsano]

Well a lot of teams are being forced to give these kind of contracts by player & agent demands or they risk losing the player for nothing. If they offer a lower & more reasonable contract offer then they risk pissing off the player to the point of him not wanting to play there anymore at all (see Joe Johnson). Then you have the players that have 1 good year or half-year and then expect large contracts and owners give it to them because they think they'll continue to improve and then they don't improve or even worse they regress (see Boris Diaw).

Combine that with the fact that at the time we had no idea if Amare was going to recover from microfracture and Diaw actually worked hard scoring on the inside, something we would of been completely lacking in if Diaw left and Amare never came back.

We were in a difficult situation so we signed Diaw on potential and for insurance.

I actually think even if Amare wouldn't have come back Diaw would have still regressed. He is just lazy and doesn't care anymore, he was playing purely for a contract.

 

[CaptainInsano]

No. You are getting noting from Kenyon Martin. Diaw contributes every 5th game or so.

I dunno if you mean literally nothing because Kenyon has been playing this year.

Not at all even slightly worth his albatross contract, but he is playing.

Sucks for denver bigtime though because I would rather have diaw and that is really really saying something.

The sad thing is though if kenyon was making 9 million instead of 14 I would EASILY rather have him then diaw.