Back at the end of 2014, shortly after the skinhead took office, the NBA league reached a nine-year broadcast agreement with ESPN, TNT, ABC and other television stations, with a total value of a staggering $24 billion, and the agreement began to take effect in the 16/17 season.
After a strong struggle by the labor side, the NBA officially adjusted the salary cap with unprecedented strength on the eve of the start of the 16/17 season (from 70 million directly soared to $94 million), and the annual growth rate was also considerable. By the time of the season, the salary cap had grown to $114 million. It is foreseeable that when the current broadcast agreement ends, the NBA salary cap will once again usher in a sharp surge.
Since the 16/17 season, the NBA league has entered the era of big top salary, and even the standard base salary contract has risen to the level of $2.56 million, and it is impossible for the big stars to win in the free market without taking 35 million.
According to statistics, a total of 51 players have received more than $20 million in season salary this season, and the Pacers' Malcolm Brogdon is the gatekeeper of Mr. 20 million.
In addition, a total of 122 players have received more than $10 million in season salary this season, and Paul Millsap of the Nuggets is the gatekeeper of Mr. 10 million.
Unconsciously, the regular season of this season has come to an end, and the performance of NBA players can mostly be conclusive, discussing the cost performance to find high-paid and low-energy representative players, basically NBA fans will discuss the topic every season.
High salary and low energy, in fact, is a relative concept, comprehensive salary, season performance, player salary range, the author will take stock of the TOP10 in this article for reference. Due to space limitations, if there is a choice of lost pearls or discussions, please leave a message in the comment area to add. The first thing to say is that players like Thompson, who are reimbursed before the season, will not be on the list.
Tony Snell (Atlanta Hawks)
Season stats: 5.2 points, 2.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists, shooting percentage: 50.6%/56.5%/100%; season salary of $12.17 million.
Among the first NBA players to eat crabs, Tony Snell was a little transparent that could easily be forgotten by fans. As a tall, thin wing player, the three-point ability is Snell's only skill.
This season, his overall shooting percentage is more than half, all pulled up by three-pointers, and the two-point shooting rate is only 39%. Measured in terms of efficiency, Tony Snell is worthy of his playing time of about 20 minutes per game.
However, because of the poor confrontation and dribbling ability, successive coaches have been reluctant to give him longer playing time. In a way, he's similar to novak, a sharp shooter, and only performs three-point tactics in specific rounds. Among players with a salary of more than $10 million in the league, Tony Snell's on-field stats are at the bottom of the list, so he is on the list.
Jared Dudley (Los Angeles Lakers)
Season stats: 0.5 points, 1.7 rebounds, 0.5 assists, shooting percentage: 28.6%/40.0%/0.00%; $2.56 million in season salary.
As mentioned earlier, high salary and low energy are a relative concept, and the base salary player group is a rather large player group in the NBA. If you want to choose a player with high salaries and low ability in this group, I am afraid that only the Lakers player Dudley, who will play during garbage time and play at the level of dragging oil bottles, will not let go.
As a veteran of the league for 13 seasons, Dudley was also a top scorer who could play on a strong team at his peak, with the most prominent performance in phoenix with Nash. Now, Dudley's role in the team may be to act as a guard with a knife in front of the imperial court.
RODNEY Hood (Toronto Raptors)
Season stats: 3.9 points, 1.8 rebounds, 0.4 assists, shooting percentage: 35.6%/40.0%/93.8%; $10.04 million in season salary.
As a tall wing with the ability to hold the ball, Hood has a precise three-pointer and a good understanding of blocking and dismantling, but his body is thin and he lacks the ability to impact the basket. In the 17/18 season, Hood played his best performance in his career, averaging 14.7 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. As the Jazz's selected and growing rookie, the parent team was very satisfied with Hood's performance and was willing to come up with a 4-year, $70 million contract to keep him, but Hood refused, believing that he was worth a quasi-maximum salary of 80 million+ level.
The Jazz then sent Hood to the Cavaliers. In the same season with the Cavaliers, Hood's performance was actually not bad. Unfortunately, he was arrogant and arrogant in Cleveland, refusing to play at garbage time, and once had a feud with Tyronelu, and his reputation has since been damaged.
By the offseason, the Blazers took over Hood on a two-year, $16 million contract, the following year with a player option. In his first season with the Blazers, Hood averaged 11 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, shooting 50.6%/49.3%/77.8% from three fields, and his ability and attitude were good.
However, Hood suffered a severe injury from a torn Achilles tendon. In this case, Hood still chose to jump out of the contract. The Blazers management has been kind to the players, considering that Hood was also a firefighter for the team at that time, they offered Hood a 2-year, $21 million contract extension, taking a risk to gamble on Hood's recovery.
Unfortunately, in the face of such a serious injury as a torn Achilles tendon, only a very few players can recover to good condition. After his comeback, Hood's form plummeted, and he was traded to the Raptors by the Blazers this season. Whether it is the Blazers or the Raptors playing, Hood's efficiency and game contribution are the worst in the NBA.
Ricci Rubio (Minnesota Timberwolves)
Season stats: 8.8 points, 6.4 assists, 1.5 steals, shooting percentage: 39.2%/31.4%/86.7%; $17 million in season salary.
As a former golden boy, Rubio actually played well in the Jazz's short two years, but it was not enough to make the team interested in renewing his contract. Rubio then entered the free market and was signed by the Phoenix Suns on a three-year, $51 million contract, while the Jazz spent a lot of money to find Conley to place Rubio.
Last year, that is, a year for the Suns, Rubio averaged 13.0 points, 8.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game, shooting 41.5% of the best shooting rate in his career, and shooting the best 36.1% of his career, in fact, Rubio played well, and even won the MVP of the FIBA World Cup before the start of the season, and the Suns also fell in front of the playoff gate at the last minute.
However, after the end of last season, Rubio was once again the option of being replaced by someone else and then coming to the team to reinforce. The last time rubio replaced Rubio was Conley, this time it was Paul, and the team that took over Rubio in the trade was the Timberwolves who selected him that year.
Judging from the subsequent results, the Jazz and the Suns certainly did nothing wrong, and Rubio got the salary he deserved. However, after two such encounters of giving all his strength and then being used as a spare tire, Rubio was inevitably frustrated.
To be precise, it is actually three times in a row to be someone else's spare tire. Because even if the phoenix returns to the Timberwolves, Rubio will have to make way for russell, who has just arrived, in the point guard position. It can only be said that if you want to blame, you can blame your own shooting.
This season, Rubio played the worst performance of his career, his shooting fell back below 40%, and his three-point shooting rate fell back to early 30%. Among point guards with an annual salary of more than $15 million, Rubio is almost the worst. In this era, the master control without range, even if the pass is good, in fact, the influence is quite weak. If nothing else, Rubio won't get a tens of millions of contracts in the offseason, and may even consider returning to Europe early.
Gary Harris (Orlando Magic)
Season stats: 10.7 points, 1.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists, shooting percentage: 39.6%/34.4%/81.8%, $19.16 million in season salary.
Looking back at the history of the NBA, in any basketball era, there is no shortage of workers who have broken out in the contract year and then fallen sharply after winning the big contract, especially in the early stage of the era of salary caps, and the most famous and first salary thief in modern times is of course Chandler Parsons.
Among the active players, Gary Harris, a quarterback who grew up and played famously in the Nuggets, may not necessarily be the first choice that fans can think of. Back in the 17/18 season, Harris averaged a career-best season of 17.5 points, 2.9 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game. In the offseason, the Nuggets offered a four-year, 84 million lucrative contract to renew Harris.
In the first season of the new contract, the 18/19 season, Harris's stats slipped to 12.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists, directly returning to the level of the rookie's second year or so. Over time, Harris' performance has gradually declined, and the Nuggets have found a new core with a better backcourt.
Coming this season, the Nuggets traded Harris to the Orlando Magic. After the mid-season trade window, the Magic cleared the three major forces of Vucevic, Gordon and Fournier, and it was clear that they were going to rebuild, and the new signings and the young people of the original team were grabbing the dragon head stick. Considering that Harris's 26-year-old has exploded in the past, he is naturally one of the objects of observation. Unfortunately, given 30 minutes of playing time, he can only cut 10 points with less than 40% of the shooting rate, which is really sorry for the salary and team status. If this continues, Harris, who still has a $20.5 million contract to run next season, is likely to continue to appear in the high-paying and low-energy list.
Mike Conley (Sir Utah)
Season stats: 16.4 points, 6.0 assists, 3.4 rebounds, shooting percentage: 44.6%/40.7%/85.3%, $34.5 million in season salary.
Mike Conley has been a very good quality quasi-star player for the past many years. Coming to this season, Conley finally entered the All-Star list as a substitute and truly became a star in the sense.
After Conley got a surprising contract, he has been frequently on the list of topics about negative reviews of the cost performance. As mentioned above, Conley is a quality player, as long as in the relative range, high salary and low energy can be established, and it is not disrespectful to put Conley on the list, but his salary corresponding to his coffee is actually a bit too high.
Using this season's salary data as a reference, Conley is the tenth highest paid player in the league. Aside from Thompson, who was reimbursed, the only person in front of Conley was Wall who was significantly inferior to him this season. In addition, Butler, Leonard, Irving, Middleton, Thick Brow, Lillard, the big guys with the best team experience are all behind Conley in salary.
Steven Adams (New Orleans Pelicans)
Season stats: 7.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 0.7 blocks, shooting percentage: 61.4%/0.00%/44.4%, $27.52 million in season salary.
In terms of performance, Adams is the most obviously degraded center this season. In fact, in the thunder's final season, Adams's regression is already quite obvious, from the past 14+10 performance to 11+9, and this season even scoring double-doubles can not be guaranteed.
It is also strange to say that after leaving the Thunder, the outside world's expectation for Adams is that the rebounding number will increase by leaps and bounds, but the fact is that his rebounds do not increase but fall, to some extent, it provides some positive reference for the triple-double value that Wei Shao has been questioning for a long time.
Speaking of Adams, as a meat shield-type reloaded center, his lack of range and autonomous scoring means is well known. As he grew older, Adams' ability to simply stand as a pile to collect rebounds and interfere with opponents also declined. This season, his blocking rate was miserable, and his free throw performance was also the worst of his career.
John Wall (Houston Rockets)
Season stats: 20.6 points, 6.9 assists, 3.2 rebounds, shooting percentage: 40.4%/31.4%/74.9%, $41.25 million in season salary.
One thing to say is that after two years of missing the field due to serious injuries, Wall, who is no longer in the wind, can still hand over nearly 21+7 level data, which is actually worth applause. Shooting is not Wall's always strong point, Wall is indeed moving towards version 2.0, but he has no choice but to hand over the worst shooting rate of his career and the most prosaic season after the rookie contract.
Wall's reason for making the list is similar to Conley's. In terms of salary, Wall is the fourth person in the league today, behind Curry, Wei Shao, paul, and higher than Harden, James, and Durant. Among the players in the salary range of about 40 million US dollars, Wall is undoubtedly the one who is the most unmatched in terms of combat strength and treatment.
Kevin Love (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Season stats: 11.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.5 assists, shooting percentage: 39.4%/34.7%/80.9%, $31.3 million in season salary.
In terms of salary, LeFou is the twentieth highest player in the league this season. As for performance, Love may be outside the top 100. As an inside player, no matter how depressed you are in the Cavaliers, how annoying it is to accompany the prince to read, but handing over less than 40% of the shooting rate is certainly not a glorious thing in itself.
In the past two seasons, the news of Lefu's trade has not stopped, from repeated out-of-control tantrums on the field to off-site speeches and social media logs, Lefu has actually expressed a strong desire to leave the team. However, now that Love is still on the team, it means that no team is willing to get Love at the cost of $31.3 million.
In a sense, Lefour's big contract was a reward for his sacrifice during the Big Three, which can be referred to Bosh. On the other hand, if you can afford it, you must be able to bear it, talk show master Huang Zihua has said, the boss gives you a salary, part of it is to give you spiritual compensation, playing nanny ball and the bitterness of being snubbed by young people is of course already calculated.
As for the buyout contract to leave the team to pursue the dream, I have never heard of Love willing to give up part of the income to talk to the Cavaliers about this matter. Therefore, at present, it can only continue to be consumed in this way, and Loaf's high-paying contract has two seasons to be executed.
Otto Potter (Orlando Magic)
Season stats: 9.7 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists, shooting percentage: 36.0%/37.5%/85.7%, $28.48 million in season salary.
Otto Porter became famous with the Washington Wizards and was one of the most sought-after tall 3D players in the NBA league between 17 and 19 years, shooting almost to 180 clubs in three shots. Back in July 2017, the Wizards signed a four-year, $106 million contract with Otto Porter, when Otto Porter was around 15 points and 6 boards, which was also a dividend of the times.
However, after receiving a high salary, Otto Porter's subsequent performance dropped to the level of 12.6 points and 5.6 rebounds, and was no longer considered part of the future of the team. Halfway through the 18/19 season, the Wizards traded him to the Bulls. After arriving at the Bulls, Otto Porter was a powerful man for a while, once playing a 17+6 level. However, Otto Porter's glass physique began to emerge, and various muscle soft injuries and minor fractures continued to be injured, and he could not play for a long time.
After this season's comeback, Porter has been unable to find his former bravery, and the parent team, the Bulls, have lost all patience with Porter and traded him to the rebuilding Magic in the middle of the season. After arriving at the Magic, the son's strength positioning was only rated by the coach as a 20-minute substitute level. In the case of the final year of the buyout contract is not negotiated, the Magic team rarely arranges for him to play behind, it is better to give the valuable practice opportunity to other newcomers. In the coming year, it will take time for Potter to answer.