I saw two messages like this:
1. After three years of polishing, Suns player Mikale Bridges has grown into one of the league's top 3D players, his current market price is around 20 million, and next summer he is expected to get a 4-year contract with a total amount of more than 100 million.
2. Third-year student Di Vincenzo, whose current market price is $99 million for 4 years, close to 100 million, will be a restricted free agent to watch on the free agent market next summer.
These two players who graduated from Villanova University are both hoping to get a contract of 100 million yuan next year!
Data is the best measure of a player's market value. Bridges averaged 13.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in the regular season last season, shooting 54.3 percent from the field and 42.5 percent from three-point range, respectively;
In the playoffs, as the intensity of defense increased, its five statistics have declined slightly.
Looking at Di Vincenzo, he averaged 10.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game, has a good outside defensive ability, and has not yet played all his potential, and has some room for improvement.
But at the Suns, their top three stars are clearly Booker, Paul and Ayton; in the Bucks, the top three stars are Alphabet Brother, Juil Holliday and Middleton.
That is to say, these two players in their respective teams, the strength of the top three is definitely not ranked, if it is the team 4 in charge, there is still a certain controversy...
So, is this worth a contract of 100 million yuan? It's really enviable!
Aside from the Lakers, it's almost impossible for small-ball city teams to keep players at prices well below market prices. Like the Nuggets whose future salary space is locked, they left Aaron Gordon behind for 91.4 million in 4 years this summer.
And what level is Gordon? In his own words: "I'm disgusted by how I performed in the playoffs. But despite this, the Nuggets gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, choosing studs, and 145 million left Porter Jr., who was seriously injured.
At present, the current situation of the NBA league is very unfriendly to the small ball market, as long as you do not give enough salary, then players who do not worry about no other team to give high salaries will decisively leave the team; and the choice of trade is often not exchanged for chips of equal value.
Obviously, the players are now earning more and more, and the small-ball team is going to be very upset about it.
So blindly discussing whether it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts does not make much sense, as long as someone is willing to give such an offer, presumably there must be a reason for it...
It's just that this truth, we haven't thought it through too thoroughly.