Minnesota Sports Forum

CoolBreeze44 wrote:

AbeVigodaLive wrote:

TheFuture wrote:Khris Middleton - 5 years 70 million?? really?? He averaged 13 pts, 4 rebs, 3 assists last year, and that was with Jabari out for the majority of the season.

Anthony Davis - $29 million a year, holy hell. If everyone is getting paid, he deserves the most, but still...

Danny Green's 4 year 45mil is too much for a 3 and D guy. Yeah he's good at it, but he's getting paid like one of the big 3 did all those years in SA.

Brook Lopez - Will wind up being the worst deal. The nets would be smart to send him off to FA and see if anyone will even touch him. $20mil a year for him amounts to about $1mil per game.

Thad Young - Nets pay themselves into oblivion. When will they realize they need to stop paying 3rd tier guys like 1st tier guys and go into complete overhaul??

We can't compare today's salaries with yesterday's salaries.

The cap is going up $20+M next season. We've already seen escalating salaries even though the previous highest jump was $7M. These teams can offer these larger-than-we'd-think contracts and still have room for one or even 2 Max guys next season.

It's fine to compare these new contracts to each other... but it's comparing apples to oranges if we're using previous contracts as a guide.

Do you think it is important for the Wolves to show dramatic improvement this year so we can attract our own max guy next year?

khans2k5 wrote:I'm surprised the Spurs traded Splitter. I always thought the post Duncan era was going to start right out with a Parker/Green/Leonard/Aldridge/Splitter starting 5. Maybe they needed to cut a lot of salary to be able to sign LA. I think Splitter's a good pick up for the Hawks. After all these years we'll finally see what Horford looks like as a 4.