The NBA is a business alliance, and contract renewals and deals are a buy and sell. Most fans who understand the NBA have heard that there is such a situation in the NBA league, the team according to the performance of the players and physical conditions and future expectations in advance to open a contract and want to negotiate a contract extension with the player, and the player suspected that the price code was low and did not accept the offer, and finally found that they could only sign cheaper contracts on the free market, which was a miscalculation of their own market situation, and there was no store in this village.
It's actually a game, there are losers and winners, there are people who become negative examples, and of course there are people who become positive examples. Sometimes, it's true that teams miscalculate the situation and miss talent that can take off consistently because they save money, such as Nash to the Dallas Mavericks, Joe Johnson to the Phoenix Suns. However, repeated discussion of negative examples in the online basketball community is obviously higher than positive examples, and the greater the salary gap between players getting contracts before and after, the more enthusiastic the fans will discuss.
In this article, the five NBA classic players who missed out on big contracts because of overconfidence are for your reference. Of course, due to space limitations, if there is any omission or discussion of the choice, you are welcome to leave a message in the comment area to add.
V. Latrile Spreeville
Without a ten million dollar contract, how do I support my family?
Back in the summer of 2005, the Timberwolves offered a three-year, $21 million extension to former player and four-time All-Star former Ratriel Spreeville. In the season that just ended, nicknamed "Crazy Man", he averaged 12.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, shooting 41.4% from the field and 32.7% from three-point range.
In terms of Ratriel Sprewell's 34-year-old age at the time, as well as the salary cap at the time, the Timberwolves gave him a three-year, $21 million pension contract that was already a very cost-effective contract for the player. As a result, of course, Ratriel Spreeville scared off the rest of the NBA league, and finally the fart did not catch and disappeared directly from the league, losing $21 million.
4. Demarcus Cousins
Before the Achilles tendon tear, Cousins was also the widely recognized No. 1 center in the West, averaging 25 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 1.6 blocks per game at the top longman level, playing hot in the pelicans and thick eyebrows forming a twin tower. After suffering such a serious injury, the outside world is generally suspicious of Cousins' post-injury situation, and after assessing the risk, the parent pelicans have come up with a 2-year, 40 million contract to renew Cousins.
Frankly speaking, it is unlikely that he will get a maximum salary after such a serious injury, and if he can prove himself in two years, Cousins is not without the opportunity to get his own top salary at a later time. Unfortunately, the arrogant KaoShen did not think so, and he wanted to go to the free market to test the waters.
After being battered by the market, Cousins finally realized the reality and ended up succumbing to the warriors with only a paper mini-middle-class $5.3 million. As a result, the Cousins championship was not won, the performance was declining, the body had new injuries, and it was not long before he became a marginal person in the league, and it was very tortuous to ask for a basic salary.
III. Dennis Schroeder
After the opening of this year's free agency market, "where does Schroder go" is a topic that many NBA fans are quite concerned about. Back to last season, the Lakers had come up with a four-year, $84 million early contract extension to talk to Schroder. Frankly speaking, for a guard who averages 15.4 points, 5.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game, shooting 43.7% and shooting 33.5% from three-point range, the Contract offered by the Lakers is quite sincere.
Of course, a big reason is because the Lakers' salary space for summer reinforcement is not enough, whether it is for their own use or first signed and then replaced, the Lakers must take bird rights to renew Schroeder before they can break through the limit of the salary cap to operate. It was precisely because of this that Schroeder thought he had the initiative and rejected a four-year, $84 million contract, opening his mouth to break the hundred million contract.
Whether it is a player who thinks he is a player who has broken the level of 100 million, or listening to the advice of his agent, he can only say that Schroeder really misjudged the situation, he underestimated the charm of the Lakers, the level of Pelinka & the market this year. You should know that there are many excellent point guards in the free agent market this year, and Pelinka is quite old and spicy. After Schroeder refused to sign, Pelinka immediately launched the operation plan, the operation came to Westbrook to turn the situation around, and then signed a strong reinforcement with the veteran's low-cost contract. All of a sudden, there are already many people on the Lakers' back court who can play, and Schroeder is no longer worth it.
With the opening of the free market and the signing of the contract, Schroeder has not yet found a home. One thing is for sure, there are very few NBA teams that can offer Schroeder tens of millions of contracts. If he stays in the NBA next year, Schroeder's contract numbers will certainly be bad, and he seems to have lost more than $60 million because of his inflated self-confidence compared to the Lakers' contract.
II. Isaiah Thomas
After playing the top point guard data averaging 28.9 points and 5.9 assists per game, Thomas Jr. was full of confidence that year, and "taking the money from the cash truck to sign me" has become a famous meme that has been passed down to this day. It should be admitted that Thomas Jr.'s performance in Green Kai is indeed quite amazing, and in terms of his stature and experience, he is indeed quite inspirational and legendary basketball player.
However, it is an indisputable fact that Thomas Jr. only has 175CM, and the risk of hip injuries on the body is also that the team should maintain competitiveness with the defensive black hole as the core, in fact, it has been very face-saving, in order to ensure that the team's competitiveness should leave more space to balance in the rest of the position, the practice is also understandable.
Therefore, Thomas Jr., who was looking forward to receiving the top salary, finally said coldly that the team offered a discounted contract (the mainstream said that it was 4 years and 70 million), and finally chose to refuse. As a result, Thomas Jr. was traded to the Cavaliers by the Green Army in August 2017. It didn't take long for Thomas Jr. to become a low-paid player or even an unemployed person for various reasons such as injuries and system changes. Judging from the follow-up experience, it can only be said that the green army's vision is still very accurate, and Thomas Jr. did not accept the renewal but was better for them, and the surplus value that should be squeezed was squeezed.
First, Victor Oladipo
As a negative example, the classic of Oladipo is that he has turned down two consecutive $20 million annual salary grade contracts in the same season and then had to be paid a base salary because he was cold in the market.
After joining the Pacers, Oladipo did play a star performance and became a highly anticipated two-legged defender. However, after the quadriceps tendon rupture, he had to enter a long period of recuperation, and his performance after his comeback declined. After Audi was injured, the Pacers began to operate to re-establish a lineup and system for future combat, but they were not nostalgic for the past, and in the future blueprint, they actually thought about leaving a position for Oladipo, and issued a 4-year, $80 million contract to him.
However, Audi was bent on the top salary and rejected the Pacers. Unwilling to renew his contract, the Pacers traded Oladipo to the rebuilding Rockets, and after a fairly stable period of time, the Rockets were willing to renew him with a 2-year, $45.2 million contract, and Audi again declined. So the Rockets traded Oladipo as a bargaining chip to the Heat. After joining the Heat, Oladipo needed to continue to fight for his rightful name to deserve the top salary, but the result was that after playing 4 games, he was reimbursed for injury.
Every time you change an environment, the performance is a little worse, the old injury has not come out and added new injuries, how can the market have confidence in such a player? As a result, it can only be that Oladipo can only renew the Heat with a one-year salary contract. If he doesn't continue to prove himself the following year, he's bound to be Thomas Jr. 2.0. I wonder if Oladipo will regret rejecting the Pacers' 4-year, $80 million contract at this moment?