As the world's largest commercial sports league, NBA players are also among the highest-paid groups of athletes in the world. Every year, the free market is a "bidding auction" transaction, and too many high-priced contracts have been born here. But the deals were well valued, and some contracts were poisoned and at a serious premium. So, what are the surprising poison contracts that have appeared on the free market since the NBA?
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Nicholas Batum 5 years 120 million</h1>
Batum was selected by the Rockets with the 25th pick in the first round in 2008 and officially entered the NBA before being traded to the Blazers. As a rookie, he quickly played well in the league and became a good helper for Roy, Auden and others.
In the 2015-16 season, Batum, who came to the contract year, was even more desperate, averaging 14.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, which made Jordan pay attention to this "French Jordan", and in the following offseason, the Hornets directly signed Batum on a five-year, $120 million top salary contract. This made many people drop their jaws, knowing that this kind of contract can already sign the league's top players, but signed a small forward with mediocre results.
Sure enough, batum plummeted in form after signing a big contract, averaging just a "horror" stat of 3.6 points per game this season. Batum took the most expensive contract and did cheap work, and Joe Boss had to reflect on it.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Paul Gasol 3 years 48 million</h1>
Paul Gasol was an All-Star player during his time with the Grizzlies, and later moved to the Lakers where he won two championships with Kobe Bryant. It stands to reason that such a good striker got a three-year, $48 million contract. But the signing of the contract was a bit of an exaggeration at the end of Gasol's 37-year-old career.
In 2016, the Spurs signed Gasol to a two-year, $30 million contract, with the second year as a player option, averaging only 12.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game in that season, and gasol chose to refuse to execute the player option at the end of the season, which also means that Gasol may end his career with a pension contract with the Spurs. But in 2017, the Spurs suddenly announced that gasol was given a three-year, 48 million contract, which made Gasol himself think about it. In his state, it is very good to get a contract of 3 years and 20 million.
In the 2018-19 season, Gasol's form in the twilight of his career plummeted, playing only 30 games, averaging 3.9 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. On March 2, the Spurs directly announced the buyout of Gasol's contract, which may be the Spurs' most failed investment. The signing of the Spurs has also been ridiculed and dissatisfied by many hardcore spur fans, and Gasol, who joined halfway, can get the Spurs' pension contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, but Parker, one of the contributors to GDP, has not received a pension contract.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Timoffy Mozgov 4 years 64 million</h1>
Mozgov began playing for the Cavaliers in 2015, and in the well-established Cavaliers, Mozgov did not have many opportunities on the court until Lefour was injured in the playoffs, and Mozgov was able to play in the Finals. But when Love returned, Mozgov was beaten back to his prototype, averaging just 6.3 points, 4.4 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game in the 15-16 season. Naturally, this record cannot be left by the Cavaliers, and he became a free agent after the end of the season.
At this time, Lakers general manager Kopček gave Mozgov a four-year, 64 million contract, and a player averaging 6.3 points per game is worth signing with 64 million? This has caused a lot of controversy in the outside world. In the end, Mozgov was traded to the Nets after only one season with the Lakers, but mozgov could still get an annual salary of 16 million in the next three years, which was really infuriating.
<H1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Chandler Parsons signed a four-year, 94 million contract in 2016</h1>
Parsons can be said to be the big brother of the garbage contract. In 2016, Chandler Parsons signed a $94 million contract with the Grizzlies, and parsons averaged only 13.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game in the contract year, although this was his worst season since his rookie season, but it also released a signal that this player may not be as strong as imagined, but the Grizzlies are going to be iron heads, desperate to give Parsons a 4-year, 94 million contract.
As a result, Parsons, who received a large contract, played a total of 95 games in the Grizzlies' three seasons, averaging less than 8 points per game, which made the Grizzlies despair, and the 19-year trading market rushed to send him to the Hawks. On February 5, 2020, the Hawks officially announced the layoff of Parsons. I already knew that the NBA was rich, I didn't expect it to be rich like this, so many rotten contracts to sign a potential rookie is not fragrant!