8 mill per is in landry contract territory. double no thanks. 5'7 PG only good at scoring? the other guy who suggested tyreke $$ at IT... lunacy. hope the lakers offer him 8-12m so he can deliver pizzas in so-cal.
That is an indictment on the Landry contract, though. If Landry is actually worth 8 million, Thomas is worth 16.
...and an indictment of the JT and the Thornton contracts prior? There sure a lot of indictments going on around here...
Some fuzzy math here. Landry's contract, while horrible, never broaches $7,000,000 as it is $6,750,000 for four years.
Thompson's contract started off in the $5 million range. He made $5.6 million this year, will make about $6 million next year, $6.4 million the year after that and $6.8 million in his final year. He was also a starter for the Kings when he signed that deal. And still, for a third big off the bench who can play the PF and C and is the team's best individual post defender I think that's a reasonable deal that gets a bit high at the very end. For reference I think that would be a solid deal to offer IT as well and I'd similarly feel that it's overpaying in the final year or two but still equitable for both sides.
As for Thornton, we know he was overpaid and the indictment there was obvious when he was dangled as trade bait and only found a taker in Brooklyn who only offered Jason Terry's dead weight contract and a decent role player in Reggie Evans. If Thornton were living up to his contract he would have at least been the 20 ppg scorer he fooled the front office into thinking he'd consistently be.
How many players on the Kings have contracts in line with their production?
IT has certainly outplayed his contract. Cousins has outplayed his rookie deal but it remains to be seen if he'll take that next step to justify his huge contract. My guess (based on his career arc this far and the general development curve of bigs) is that he mostly likely will, barring injury.
Derrick Williams, Travis Outlaw, Rudy Gay and certainly Landry can't be said to have brought value to the team in line with their paycheck. Some would argue JT hasn't either. Certainly Jason Terry didn't give either Brooklyn or Sacramento $5 million worth of play this season.
Reggie Evans certainly gave production at least in line with his deal. McLemore? Hard to say there. Ray McCallum? Certainly showed flashes of being more productive than his 2nd round pick salary would indicate.
And yet, only two of those contracts were negotiated by PDA - Cousins and Landry. Whether or not any other players are paid appropriately is not germane to the discussion of what the Kings are willing to pay IT or at what number they'll let him walk.
