Bill Bradley was the highest paid player in the league as a rookie in 1968.
He averaged 8/3/3 on below average efficiency in the regular season and 6/1/0 in the playoffs.
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Okay, but I bet he made like $20k per year lol.
$20k was a lot back then.
After researching this issue, I'm both amazed and bewildered about a few things.
Amazed: Bradley was drafted twice. First in 1965 by the 76ers, but he said "Nah, fuck that." He didn't sign a contract, played ball in Italy, went to Oxford, dropped out, and then went into the Air Force. Then joined the Knicks in 1967.
Bewildered: Why the fuck does Bill Bradley look like an old man at the age of 22?
For some reason I thought this was about Bill Russell and could not have been more surprised upon clicking that link
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In advance, I understand the question, but given the subject matter and the player you chose as an example, it comes across as a bit of an attempt at engagement mining.
Kobe made more money for the Lakers than what they could've ever given him on his farewell tour...Kobe is STILL making them money even though he is no longer here.
Again, I understand the question but you didn't choose a great example. You went with something more akin to a hot take.
Just my .02 cents.
No it’s a fair critique, I’m not a fan of legacy contracts so that probably factored into why I used the example and like you said he put enough people in seats to makeup the money anyway
I don't know if culture matters as much in basketball anymore because a lot of players move around so much now, but it does set a good precedent as an organization to take care of your own later in their career. It can attract future players at least theoretically
Lakers attract players just because of the location and franchise history. If they want to overpay an old injured Kobe, I've got nothing against it, but I don't think the legacy contract helped or hurt them in any way.
I guess it depends on what kind of culture you want to promote, Timmy D took major salary cuts as his production dropped and he got older which atleast in my head is sending out the message of here the team and it’s performance always comes first. Obviously you can’t blame Kobe for taking the bag he was offered but I just don’t like organizations promoting the star is bigger than the team
huh? why would they pay Kobe less when Lakers weren't going anywhere anyways. They weren't trying to bring in star players to win a ring. Lakers fans didn't give a fuck about that contract.
But that’s quite literally my point. Lakers gave Kobe the 2 year max extension rather than asking him to take a cut and trying to sign free agents when he was already washed from injury because of his fan love/box office appeal and prioritized the farewell tour over rookie development for the same reasons: the culture is about putting on a show through the stars not ensuring consistent team success a la the Spurs. You’re quoting the culture to refute my criticism of the culture.
Production for Kobe may have been meh on the court but the action of paying your franchise player (who won 5 rings, something nobody has done since) a max deal set the lakers up for the Lebron years.
Why do you think Lebron came here? Also that 2016 farewell tour was a record breaking revenue year and we were also able to tank. Literally EVERYBODY won in that
Using advanced metrics, sure. However, how much dinero did he generate with tv, apparel and ticket revenue, as everybody clamored to see the farewell tour? Worth it.
Barkley’s 1 million so the Rockets could sign Pippen but that failed. You can argue it was worse the season after
Crazy that $25 million was the highest salary in the league and it wasn’t even that long ago. Now Giannis is signing for over $60 million.
Wonder how retired players feel like are they happy for the next generation or do people like Scottie end up bitter that they made less than league minimum
Agent Zero, Gilbert Arenas, was paid some $62 million by the Magic over three years to play zero minutes.
The Dallas Mavericks traded for Davis Bertans who made 17 million to score 4.6 ppg in 10 mpg.
There are far worse contracts, but no one EVER mentions how useless the Bertans contract is for Dallas that is in win now mode
This is a good one. Nobody talks about how bad the Porzingis for Dinwiddie/Bertans trade was for the Mavs
Not the worst but man I was disappointed in Ben "Jordan" Gordon on the Pistons. Dude fell off a cliff
the team around Kobe that year was awful
Kobe generated an insane amount of $$ for the Lakers and the NBA that season. Plus that final game was the equivalent of 50 wins IMO.
Oliver Miller was paid actual money to play professional basketball
It's gotta be Mozgov, Luol Deng, or Gilbert Arenas right?
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
These ppl all robbed the NBA 😂
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How is Ben Simmons 2021-22 OR 2022-23 not #1 here?
Didn't the Lakers pay Luol Deng for like 6 years after he stopped playing?
I love Udonis Haslem, my second favorite Heat player of all time, but man got paid millions for elite 6-7 years for doing nothing lol
Andrew Nicholson continues to get paid about 3 Million a year by the Blazers. He's on the books next year as well.
Hasn't played in the NBA since 2018.
Ben Simmons the last three years
Imagine if Lebron put up numbers like that 😂
Almost no one will remember Jim McIlvaine getting paid by the Sonics to effectively just be a shot blocker and commit as many fouls against the best Centers in the league.
Giannis making 60+ a year. Insane that the highest was 25 less than a decade ago.
It's wild that salaries have jumped from $24m to $60m in less than a decade.
Jim Mcilvaine got paid about $5 million (more than Pippen, Malone, and Kemp at the time) to average 4 points and 4 rebounds.
Evan Fournier
John Wall was paid 44m to not play for the Rockets
Case closed. Why didn’t they play him?
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Tanking
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Reps for younger guys
He had no place in the Rockets' future, so it makes sense that Wall would shit on the team after leaving. He was a "has-been" who was trying to salvage a last bit of his credibility of a player by trashing the organization.
He wanted to play and help and they told him to fuck off.
Crazy he said fuck you to them lmao
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- he was awful.
To get Jabari smith…
They did all of that losing without him, who was the highest paid player who contributed to a lot of losing?
If he didn't play he did what the Rockets wanted, technically making it a good performance from their perspective.
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That season where Wall flat out didn't play but was making an obscene amount of money?
Not counting injuries?
I don't remember what He do Turkoglu made in Toronto, but he left to get drunk in Europe
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