In the NBA league, there are many contracts that are the personal ability and play of the team's absolute players at that time, but after signing a big contract, the player will immediately have a cliff-like decline, resulting in this contract becoming a garbage contract. There are also some players who sign a big contract when they are older, and in the last two seasons of the contract, it will become a garbage contract, and if the team wants to change, it needs to reach a buyout contract with them, and the salary will be paid to the players for multiple seasons! So in the current league, which players are no longer playing in the league, but still take the team's salary?
Recently, Fadeaway World took stock of seven players who are still receiving money from the team but have retired, and the specific rankings are as follows: 1. Chris Bosh ($8.6 million/year, from the Heat), 2. Joakin Noah ($6.4 million/year, from the Knicks) 3, Timofey Mozgov ($5.5 million/year, from the Magic), 4. Kevin Garnett ($5 million/year, from the Celtics), 5. Ruhr Dun ($4.9 million/year, From the Lakers), 6. Monta Ellis ($2.2 million/year, from the Pacers), 7. Larry Sanders ($1.8 million/year, from bucks)!
In this list, Bosh had to choose to retire due to illness, which also made his big five-year, $118 million contract with the Heat not fully fulfilled. So after he retires, the Heat will pay Bosh the rest of the contract in installments. Noah, who finished second, was also dropped by the Knicks due to injury, and after retiring, he was able to receive a salary of $6.4 million per year from the Knicks.
Mozkov may be the most inexplicable player on this list to sign a contract, but Mozkov is not particularly strong, averaging only 8.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game last season, but the Lakers chose to sign him to a four-year, $64 million contract, and then traded him to the Nets a year later, and then to the Hornets, and the Magic, and finally cut by the Magic, and now plays in the Russian League! In 2016, the Lakers and Ruhr Deng signed a 4-year, 72 million US dollar contract, and then only two years later, the Lakers chose to reach a buyout agreement with him, it can be said that these two garbage contracts are from the Hands of the Lakers!
In addition to this, the two players like Ellis and Sanders do not have much salary per year, only about 2 million. Garnett is because he moved part of his contract amount to his retirement pension, so the Celtics currently pay Garnett a salary of $5 million a year!