I've been thinking a bit the past couple of days about contracts in the NBA. (If you go to hoopshype.com, they have all the contracts by team).
It seems that a good bunch of the contracts in the NBA are just bad contracts, contracts that if the team had a chance to rid themselves of the player and contract, that they would do it if they could. (my definition of a bad contract is that the player isn't inherently living up to the value of such contract and that the team would unload them if they could save salary).
It frustrated me to see the value of some of these contracts being signed, it's almost as if in a lot of the cases that you just know the contract is bad from the get-go.
I think Bobby Simmons of the Bucks is another good example here - can anyone really tell me the Bucks wouldn't secretly love to get rid of his contract now (I belive it was 6 yrs, 48 million)? And was there anyone who when he signed it last year said that he was absolutely worth that?
It seems like most newer signings are like this.....I guess NBA teams are so desperate to bring a winnner to town (as well they should) that they figure it's better to overpay and hope the chemistry works out and something special happens (a la Steve Nash) rather than sit around doing nothing.
Any thoughts on this?
It seems that a good bunch of the contracts in the NBA are just bad contracts, contracts that if the team had a chance to rid themselves of the player and contract, that they would do it if they could. (my definition of a bad contract is that the player isn't inherently living up to the value of such contract and that the team would unload them if they could save salary).
It frustrated me to see the value of some of these contracts being signed, it's almost as if in a lot of the cases that you just know the contract is bad from the get-go.
I think Bobby Simmons of the Bucks is another good example here - can anyone really tell me the Bucks wouldn't secretly love to get rid of his contract now (I belive it was 6 yrs, 48 million)? And was there anyone who when he signed it last year said that he was absolutely worth that?
It seems like most newer signings are like this.....I guess NBA teams are so desperate to bring a winnner to town (as well they should) that they figure it's better to overpay and hope the chemistry works out and something special happens (a la Steve Nash) rather than sit around doing nothing.
Any thoughts on this?
