With an average salary of $53 million, the NBA's biggest salary bastard, he was forced into the All-Star team!
Since the Nuggets won the championship last summer, all the giants have been working hard to strengthen the team, the Suns' Durant + Booker + Beal Big Three, the Celtics' Holiday + Boshen + Tatum + Brown Big Four, the Clippers' Harden + Westbrook + George + Leonard Big Four, the Warriors can still eat Paul under the original bloated salary structure, the purpose is to seize Curry's final championship window. But for more than half of the season, the Celtics in the East have basically been able to ride the dust, no way, after all, there is a big gap between other teams and them, and the Celtics have a balanced offense and defense. The West is led by the Timberwolves and Thunder, two teams with an overall salary of less than $165 million. Obviously, as legendary superstars such as James, Curry, and Durant have aged, the new generation has risen to the top quickly and has gradually played dominance in the regular season.
But this also means that there are many stars with super cap salaries, but they have not contributed to match the salary energy, to put it mildly, Lao Zhan's salary of 47.61 million US dollars is difficult to link with his performance in the regular season, including Glass Man Beal, with a salary of 46.74 million US dollars, from a lower back injury to an ankle injury, not long after his comeback, he injured his hamstring again! Once the salaries of these teams are not able to contribute energy stably, it is actually very difficult to count on role players, including the Warriors, and Klay cannot match the salary of $43.22 million, so the Suns can only commit to the second group, and the Lakers and Warriors are hovering outside the top eight in the West. However, there are also some stars who get a super maximum salary, but they perform like bastards, and the key is that they are praised by the league! This can only say that he has a strong team, which is the biggest salary bastard.
Starting from a set of statistics: 22 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, with a three-point shooting rate of 49.2%+34.2%+71.8%, of which the interior shooting rate is 59.8%, 92nd in the league, an effective shooting rate of 54.9%, 152nd in the league (excluding free throw shooting efficiency), and a true shooting rate of 57.4%, 171st in the league (including the overall efficiency of free throws). There is an even more embarrassing statistic: his presence/absence (100 rounds On/Off difference) this season is still negative!What does it mean? Simply put, he is not on the field, the team's 100 rounds of net efficiency and winning points are more! And his salary this season is 31.83 million US dollars, and the salary in the next 5 years is: 49.35 million US dollars + 53.3 million US dollars + 57.25 million US dollars + 61.19 million US dollars + 65.48 million US dollars, a total of 318 million US dollars for 6 years, with an average salary of 53 million US dollars!
Revealing the Answer: Jaylen Brown. To tell the truth, Jaylen Brown is useless to say that other performances other than 22 points per game may be excessive but realistic. Even on the defensive end, Jaylen Brown averaged 4.4 interference shots and 2.1 two-point shots per game, both outside the top 100 in the league. The efficiency is not high, the defensive performance is average, but he was won into the All-Star by the league! Compared with Tatum, Brown's biggest shortcoming is that he is not strong when he is strong. What is the level of his true shooting percentage in games where his true shooting percentage is less than 50 percent, close to 45 percent of this season's total? Average every shot (including free throws) in exchange for 1 point! Take '24 as an example: 15 points on 5-of-18 shooting against the Thunder, 0-of-8 on three-pointers, 10 points on 5-of-14 against the Bucks, 13 points on 6-of-14 against the Rockets, 8 points on 3-of-13 for the Clippers, 8 points on 4-of-12 for the Lakers, and 13 points on 6-of-19 for the Nuggets.
Maybe it's leading the team with Tatum, guaranteeing the Eastern Conference finals to give him the illusion that he is the top star in the league, his status is not inferior to Tatum, playing the Clippers and the Lakers is the best example, taking the initiative to challenge Leonard, rushing inside against the Lakers' front, either eating hats or making mistakes, does he have this ability to finish off? But compared with last season, Smart, Gwee, Lowe and others have left, and the depth of the lineup has become thinner, which has exposed more shortcomings of the double tanhua: in addition to shooting three-pointers and attacking the frame with the ball (the efficiency is not high, Tatum ranks 81st in the league in the inside shooting rate), they have no mid-range, no back-to-back singles, and no low posts.
Of course, the Celtics are the league's No. 1 record in the league, and their system is very strong, after all, not every opponent is the Clippers, Lakers, Nuggets, and Thunder teams in the West. But what about the high-end game? Tatum can still lead the team to the finals in the summer of '22, and can also turn the tide when he fell behind the 76ers 2-3 in the second round of the playoffs last season, including the Eastern Conference finals once trailed the Heat 0-3, Tatum averaged 28 points per game and won three games in a row, but he could steal the seven big games Tatum was injured, and Brown was directly invisible! In the entire Eastern Finals, Brown averaged 16.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 3.7 turnovers per game, and the two shooting rates were 37.7%+16.3%! Not as good as the Heat's Koreb Martin!
Can't play high-end games, is inefficient, eats the benefits of the team system, and mixes in it, this is the NBA's biggest salary bastard! The average salary is $53 million, and the key is that from next season, the five-year $286 million super cap salary contract will take effect, what does Jaylen Brown mean to the Celtics? In fact, the Celtics reporter has already given the answer, Tatum can sign a contract of up to 5 years and $315 million this summer, and when the super maximum salary contracts of the two take effect at the same time, the Celtics will be like this, and their window period will be these two years!