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Worst individual season relative to salary in NBA history? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by OkKindheartedness769@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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In 2015-16 Kobe had the highest salary in the league at $25 million.

He put up 17.5/4/3 with the 4th highest usage rate that year playing around 28 MPG. Shooting splits of 36/28/83 for the 7th lowest TS% in the league. Meanwhile, the lakers finished bottom of the West with a 17-65 record.

Looking at advanced metrics: 2nd worst plus minus per game, 4th worst defensive box plus minus, 7th lowest win shares and 2nd lowest WS/48 (both negative) and all of which are the worst among Lakers players that year.

I understand he was injured and it was a farewell tour but purely from a production relative to salary perspective is this the worst season by a player ever or would it still be better than e.g a star being injured all year or refusing to play but making the max.

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[–] edded4freefood4@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The 2016 free agent class had lots stupid money thrown around to players never worth the money due to the huge jump in salary cap:

Timofey Mozgov 4 yrs/$64M Hassan Whiteside 4 yrs/$94M Mirza Teletovic 3 yrs/$30M Andre Drummond 5 yrs/$130M Nicolas Batum 5 yrs/$130M Chandler Parsons 4 yrs/$94M Solomon Hill 4 yrs/$48M Luol Deng 4 yrs/$72M Jon Leuer 4 yrs/$42M Bismack Biyombo 4 yrs/$72M Ian Mahinmi 4 yrs/$64M Ryan Anderson 4 yrs/$80M

[–] RealBigFailure@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Biyombo was on his way out of the league until that playoff game against Lebron

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