In the five positions on the NBA game field, the ability of players is high and low, generally their ability will be linked to their salaries, today brings you the new season of the five positions of player classification and the corresponding salary at the corresponding level - PF.
Tier 1: The number four players at this level generally only have the opportunity to play during garbage time or when the team has a large number of players, but they may have a considerable degree of defensive and rebounding ability. Because a lot of times, big forwards are synonymous with blue-collar workers on the pitch.
Representative player: Judonis Haslem (Heat): Haslem has announced his retirement several times, but chose to stay with the team at the beginning of the game, although he is 41 years old. But Haslem has always been a heat-scoring figure, and he's also the player who has been playing the team's blue-collar role all the time.
New season stats: 1.3 points, 0.7 rebounds in 3.3 minutes
New season salary: $2.64 million
Tier 2: Players at this level are qualified blue-collar players on a team with excellent defensive and rebounding skills and are able to stand on the bench and complete specific tasks.
Representative Player: Paul Reed (76ers): Paul Reed is the 58th overall pick of 2020, and he spent most of the last season in the Development League, rarely making appearances. However, after the development league won the MVP and contributed 27+20+4+4+4 data in the summer league, it was finally recognized, and the new season got a lot of playing opportunities in the absence of the team's main player, and in the game against the Bucks, 6 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks, it completed the defensive task well.
New season stats: 3.2 points, 3.1 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.7 blocks in 10.8 minutes
New season salary: $1.52 million
Level 3: Players at this level are able to do a lot of on-court work, rebounding and defense are still their most important jobs, but the positive attitude allows them to achieve something on the offensive end.
Representative player: Chris Boucher (Raptors): Boucher won a lot of playing opportunities last season due to a large number of people, and he also proved himself to the coach that scoring, rebounding, blocks, and two shooting rates are career highs. The new season is still able to complete the task conscientiously in the substitute position.
New season stats: 5.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 0.2 assists in 13.6 minutes
New season salary: $7.02 million
Level 4: Attacking and defending well, this is what players of this level can show on the field, some of them are young players who are growing up, some are former All-Stars who fought for the championship in the last years of their careers, maybe they don't have the dominance of their peak, but they are still not to be underestimated.
Representative Player: Blake Griffin (Nets): From All-Star to Blue Collar Player, such a transition is rare, but Griffin completed, and the 32-year-old can no longer contribute to the previous thunderous dunk, and instead, struggling to save has become Griffin's most impressive shot now. Indeed, after a major knee injury, especially now with the Duha duo, Griffin has to do those blue-collar jobs on the pitch.
New season stats: 5.9 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 22.4 minutes
Level 5: Players at this level are top blue-collar players, they do all the dirty work on the field, entangled with the inside card slot, staring at the top offensive players, covering for the ball carrier, they are the players who pay the most on the field.
Representative player: PJ Tucker (Heat): Whether it is the Rockets period or the Bucks period or now in the Heat, Tucker is synonymous with tough guys on the court, he needs to entangle with tall players on the inside and opposite, but also to defend the opponent's arrow players, excellent defensive attitude and rebounding sense of smell allow him to maintain super efficiency even if he is 36 years old.
New season stats: 5.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 27.8 minutes
New Season Salary: $7 million
Level 6: In addition to defense, the offensive data of these players is also very impressive, because they are players at the peak. Unlike those players who were placed in the big forward position because of the team's lineup, their height and strength fit perfectly with the position of the big forward, so they can play well against non-top players.
Representative player: Bobby Portis (Bucks): The "Blood Flower Brothers" Portis has always been good in offense, scoring more than ten points for six consecutive seasons, and he can share a large part of the offensive pressure on the team's star players. In the sixth game of last season's finals, in the time of the main players' mute, Portis took over the game, helped the team win the game, won the championship, and when most people were optimistic that he would get an annual salary of more than 12 million, he renewed his contract with the Bucks for 2 years and 9 million, which also made people feel his love for the Bucks.
New season stats: 12.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 0.9 steals, 1.1 blocks in 24.6 minutes
Salary for the new season: $4.35 million (most predict an average salary of more than $12 million)
Level 7: This is the level of a quasi-All-Star, they have a strong ability to attack autonomously, they can use their skills to crush the score when facing the vast majority of defenders in the league, they are full of energy, they use their performance to lead the whole team, maybe not to the level of deciding the outcome of the game, but definitely worth a salary slightly below the maximum salary.
Representative player: John Collins (Eagles): Collins, like The young Griffin, can take off at any time to dunk opponents, in addition to collins has a good three-point shooting, averaging 1.2 shots in 3 shots this season, shooting 41%, under his and Trae Young' leadership, the Hawks have been able to reach the Eastern Conference Finals last season, which is enough to see Collins' influence in the game. After completing the extension in the offseason, Collins has been called one of the cornerstones of the team, will he bring greater surprises to fans in the future?
New season stats: 16.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 31.8 minutes
New season salary: $23 million
Level 8: Players at this level are players who can build a team as the core of the team, they are impeccable on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the best team and the All-Stars are already in the bag, they have the strength to bring a team at the bottom of the league into the playoffs, and if they can equip a group of suitable teammates, entering the championship ranks is just around the corner.
Representing Julius Randall (Knicks): Playing 71 of 72 regular-season games and cutting 24.1+10.2+6 stats in 37.6 minutes, Randall finally brought Rotten into the playoffs last season – having not scored for seven consecutive years. It was a bumper year for Randle, with the first Best of the Week, the first of the Month, and the first All-Star also making it to the Best Team in the season-end selections and getting the fastest improving player, and Randle showed everyone what he was capable of. With the arrival of the new season, Randall has become a barometer of the Knicks' record, winning 7 games and scoring the highest in 6 games, losing games with a shooting rate of less than 50%, because the team has two players who need to shoot a lot of shots in the backcourt, Randle does not have the same offensive performance as last year, but as the game progresses, the team should be able to think of a solution to balance the attack on the inside and outside.
New season stats: 21 points, 10.3 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 35.7 minutes
New season salary: $19.8 million
Tier 9: As the ceiling of the fourth position, they are the core players of the championship team level, the leadership is outstanding, they are the team's non-sale, and in this position they have absolute dominance.
Representative player: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks): Twice MVP, one championship and one FMVP, this is a player who has just turned 26, and in the 75th all-time selection of history some time ago, Alphabet Brother has undoubtedly been selected. Although the Bucks' record so far is not good, the performance of the alphabet brother on both offensive and defensive ends is still very eye-catching. Looking forward to the return of teammates from injury, the Bucks can make a backlift and break into the playoffs.
New season stats: 26.6 points, 11.8 rebounds, 6 assists, 1.1 steals, 1.8 blocks in 32.9 minutes
New season salary: $39.3 million