Speaking of the biggest winner of the trade deadline, there will certainly be some people who have got Harden's 76ers, and the Bucks and Suns who secretly reinforced will also be on the list. But from the most objective point of view, the biggest winner is actually the entire players of the Thunder.
Before the deal deadline, there was speculation that the Thunder might eat up some junk contracts to earn draft picks, which they had been doing for the first two years. But surprisingly, the Thunder did not operate at the trading deadline.
As a result, the Thunder's total salary has not reached a minimum, and there are still $23 million from the poor ghost line. According to the rules, teams that fail to reach the minimum total salary are required to pay a fine based on the difference, which will be divided equally among the players in the team.
That is to say, the 16 players on the Thunder's current roster will be equally divided into 23 million, each with $1.4375 million. That's not a lot of money for league stars, but it's a huge amount of money for the Thunder.
The Thunder's highest-paid player now is Favors, with an annual salary of $9.26 million. In second place was this year's No. 6 showgidi, who was $5.99 million in the first year of his rookie contract.
The thunder's core Alexander is in the final year of his rookie contract and has only $5.5 million in salary this season. "Harden Nemesis" Dolt is only paid 1.52 million this year due to a 4-year, 5.39 million super child labor contract signed in 2020.
So for some of the Thunder's players, this unexpected dividend is more than their salary for a year, can this not be happy? For the Thunder, their 23 million is also spent, but they did not choose to change the draft, but paid benefits to employees.
This isn't the first time the Thunder have done a good job this season, they signed Gabriel Decker last April on a four-year, $14.5 million contract, with a lot of restrictions.
The contract seemed to be the Thunder's way to fill the line, and played at Real Madrid before coming to the Thunder, averaging 9.5 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, playing well.
But after coming to the NBA, he was obviously unsatisfied, and the Thunder did not give him many opportunities. He was cut in early January, and played a total of 17 games for the Thunder and earned $5.56 million.
In the end, turned around and returned to Real Madrid, and paid a buyout fee of 1.5 million yuan in order to settle with Real Madrid. This time, Real Madrid earned a buyout fee, only played 17 games to earn 5.56 million, the Thunder filled the poor line, everyone was happy.
There are not many warm management like the Thunder.