I think thats the minimum he can get paid based off ten years of service.
Also, hats off to Len, how many busts (bases off draft slot) have 10 year nba careers?
Len was overdrafted, not a bust, IMO. Yinka Dare was a bust.
In hindsight Utah got so much credit for selecting Gobert in that 2013 draft but lemme ask ya this --- do you think they'd have actually chosen him over Len if they had the opportunity --- I sure don't, they arent that smart, they got lucky other teams picked bad straws infront of them n they just so happened to come up with the straw that everyone else was looking for. Thats my perception of the events n im sticking with it... This sort of crowning of geniuses after the fact happens far too often in sports convos, its tiresome.
I dont believe the onus is really on Len to live up to his draft position either, I'd argue thats more a failure of the evaluators n the teams spending $$$ to obtain clarity on these situations. Fans want to hold players accountable though, idk to me that seems very twisted and misdirected, It's like if I overestimated your talents, hired you to do a job that you were woefully unable to tackle, I'd think thats my fault as a manager and evaluator, not your fault for not living up to my singular expectations..I feel like these people must be completely ignorant to the duties of a "casting director" on a set of a movie or tv show... Somehow that logic has eluded folks... this whole thing veers into strange abstractions n socioeconomic behaviors "my team" overpaid this guy and that hurt our chances so I dont like him, and meanwhile the guy who signed them to that deal makes peanuts in comparison to the player and he a genius if it works n fired if it doesnt n so noone cares much, theres all these double -standards of accountablility all over the place n the way everything gets piled onto some 20 year old kid that barely spoke english when he first arrived to this country not long ago, its completely absurd. Its like uhhh, squeezing blood from a stone, yeah, so often thats how it goes.. The fans think about "the sacrifice" they went thru to lose to get this pick and now they should keep up with the joneses, but thats not whats relevant, n they hold onto ghosts from the past, it becomes whats known as a sunken-cost commodity, Chris Duarte just got ran out of town and shipped to our doorstep because of a situation just like this, consumerism begins to rear its ugly head even in sports fandom if you keep an eye out for it.. Fred Van Vleet and Desmond Bane just signed 500 million dollars worth of contracts for just a few seasons of play, wasnt THAT long ago, these 2 could'a been had for peanuts, Van Vleet wasnt even good enough to get drafted apparently! in the way that Van Vleet is seen as some triumph of a keen eye in finding underappreciated talent, there truly is a counter argument to be made, that really they lucked out because the teams infront of them thinned the field by rushing to make poor choices, so with Anthony Bennett at the top of the draft, its really just the opposite of the Van Vleet situation, but in the eyes of the fans thats not how it is, they wanna roast the 'underperformer' to a crisp, and so some of these lotto picks represent big hopes and dreams to fans, while to NBA teams it can be a much more sending canaries in the coal mine to see if they survive type of situation, call me crazy but I'd tend to not blame the canaries...