hoops4life wrote:Milsap isn't just on a rookie contract, he is a on second rounder contract which is a difference in about $3 mil.
I don't think that they have to just "throw" in Milsap to trade Ak. PHX was offering Marion. Who is a great player with value. That is really the only trade that we have heard about too.
He's still on his rookie contract: his first NBA contract, that is. That means he accepted the contract before he was a proven commodity, he was just a guy trying to make a team. At the time he was an unknown entity. Thats certainly not the case now, and his salary/productivity ratio will certainly take a mojor nosedive next season when he gets his second NBA contract. That's the main point I'm trying to make here: Arguments about how productive a guy is relative to his pay are irrelevant when talking about guys on their first contracts because the player had essentially ZERO leverage when negotiating that first deal. In the NBA, outside of a certain few top draft picks, they assume you will be a bust until you prove otherwise. Obviously, ANYONE outside of that select group, who succeeds is going to have a stellar productivity to salary ratio.
Just because a guy exceeded expectations and made it in the league from a lower draft position is not reason to assume they make additional leaps and bounds and become a starter or All-Star type player. I haven't seen anything in Millsap's game that leads me to believe he will ever be anything other than a solid and valuable role player. Every team needs those kind of guys on their teams, and that is why they get traded. I'm certainly not saying that we need to trade Millsap, but I also wouldn't break the bank to keep him, either.
