Mid-season trading market has been closed, but the reinforcement of the teams has not completely ended, due to age, injury or incompatibility with the current team, every season there will be players and teams who have signed a large contract to reach a buyout, they give up a part of the salary to find better opportunities, the team can save a cost, to achieve a win-win purpose, there is no player officially reached the buyout, from various rumors, the first to achieve a buyout is likely to be Dragic, He came to the Spurs from the Raptors in a swap with Thaddeus Young, the Spurs are in the middle of a rebuilding period and will not give Dragic a chance to play, he is already a 35-year-old veteran who has reached a buyout to chase his championship dream.
But our protagonist today is not Dragic, but another player who also holds a big contract, he is Gary Harris, according to the reporter Matt Moore, Harris is likely to be bought out after the trade deadline, if it is really bought out, he will be the strongest player in the free market, talking about Harris, it is inevitable to sigh, and Dragic this kind of veteran is not the same, Harris is only 27 years old, he has been playing for the Nuggets for the first 9 years of his career, In the 16-17 season, he averaged 14.9 points, 3.1 boards and 2.9 assists per game, shooting 50.2% from the field and 42% from three-point range, and with excellent performance, he received a four-year, 84 million early contract extension contract with 1 year left in his rookie contract.
In the 17-18 season, Harris raised his average to 17.5 points, 2.6 boards and 2.9 assists per game, and the shooting percentage remained at an efficient 48.5%, when he and Murray formed the Nuggets' backcourt double gun, the inside jokic was also gradually rising, Harris was even more important to the team because of the stronger defense (known as Leonard Jr.), embarrassingly, at the beginning of the 18-19 season, he was plagued by various minor injuries, and intermittent injury stoppages made his state decline sharply, He averaged just 12.9 points per game and dropped to 42.4 percent from the field.
During this period, the Nuggets established the inner and outer cores of Jokic and Murray, Harris's status in the team is getting lower and lower, but Harris is after all the Nuggets single-handedly cultivated, at that time he was only 25 years old, the 19-20 season the team still gave him enough playing time (averaging 31.8 minutes per game), but Harris did not seize the opportunity, his average data per game continued to decline to 10.4 points, shooting only 42%, to know that his annual salary at that time had reached 18 million, In the end, the Nuggets could only choose to give up, take a first round to send him away, and trade to the Magic in exchange for Gordon to make up for the lack of front.
This season in the Magic, Harris averaged 11.4 points, 2.2 boards and 1.9 assists per game, shooting 44% from the field, the data is still a very normal level of rotation players, the efficiency is not bad, but his annual salary reached 20.48 million, a representative of "high salary and low energy", this season the Magic 13 wins and 45 losses ranked second to the bottom in the East, the goal is definitely to cultivate young players, Harris has 27 years old, has no potential to dig, give him the opportunity to play will hinder the growth of other players, It does seem a bit embarrassing, and it makes sense that the team has the idea of a buyout, but there is no definite news that Harris will definitely buy out, and we can only wait patiently for the result!