deeney0 wrote: So Sac joins the Wolves in the exclusive club of teams that got royally screwed by not grandfathering old large contracts in to the new CBA.
Why do you say that? I thought we did terrific in the BOS trade. Check this out:
http://www.82games.com/0506/fairsalary0506.htm
In 05-06, Garnett has another good individual season, and was paid $18.0 mil for it. 82games.com factored in the production to find out what his "Fair salary" should be based solely on production, and came up with a figure of $18.8, which is near the top of the league for players that didn't get to produce in the play-offs. A figure like this shows the relationship -- KG was paid fairly, but he was no trade bargain for a team's finances.
For the Wolves, KG means more than just his production, and his off-court impact on ticket sales and marketing probably doubles his worth to us. However, the package we got from BOS was a full boat load of value -- no Jerry Stackhouse deals in it at all. We got a terrific young big man, we got young guys with potential that didn't have big contracts, we got a huge expiring, we got a TPE for instant savings, and we got two 1st round picks.
KG is paid $24 mil this season, and he will not produce $24 mil on the floor. He simply isn't worth that, with LeBron, Bosh, Carmello and Wade getting $13. Now if he brings BOS a title, then he's worth it to the Celtics. However, we weren't getting a title. We did get plenty from BOS for the full amount of KG's considerable salary, and I'm happy with the trade.
