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What are the best and worst contracts in the NBA at the moment?

Note: Rookie Contracts don't count. And any guy who is in the last year of a bad contract (Marbury, for example) should not be counted since his contract will have value as it gets closer to the end of the year.

I'll kick it off...

Best Contracts (not in sequential order):

Andris Biedrins: 6 years, $54M
Chris Kaman: 4 years, $43.5M
Camby: 2 years, $15.65M
Tyson Chandler: 2 years, $22.8M
Brendan Haywood: 2 years, $11.5M

Luis Scola: 2 years, $6.5M
David West: 3 years, $27.2M

Caron Butler: 3 years, $28.3M
Travis Outlaw: 2 years, $8M
Ryan Gomes: 2 years, $7.3M
Bruce Bowen: 2 years, $8M
Battier: 3 years, $20.5M

Stephen Jackson: 2 years, $14.8M
Ginobili: 2 years, $20.6M

Jose Calderon: 5 years, $45M


Interestingly, there weren't many guards with very good contracts compared to their production.


Worst Contracts:

Dan Gadzuric: 3 years, $20.2M
Ben Wallace: 2 years, $28.5M
Erick Dampier: 3 years, $33.7M
Mark Blount: 2 years, $15.3M
Jerome James: 2 years, $12.8M

Kenyon Martin: 3 years, $47.2M
Troy Murphy: 3 years, $33.2M
Zach Randolph: 3 years, $48M
Boris Diaw: 4 years, $36M
Kenny Thomas: 2 years, $16.5M


Rashard Lewis: 5 years, $99.4M
AK47: 3 years, $49.3M
Quentin Richardson: 2 years, $18.2M
Brian Cardinal: 2 years, $13M
Bobby Simmons: 2 years, $20.4M
Morris Peterson: 3 years, $18.6M
Jared Jefferies: 3 years, $19.5M

Mike Redd: 3 years, $51.1M
Larry Hughes: 2 years, $26.5M
Marko Jaric: 3 years, $21.3M
Greg Buckner: 3 years, $12M

Speedy Claxton: 2 years, $11M
Jamaal Tinsley: 3 years, $21.5M


Feel free to add whoever you'd like or argue about the above players.

Larry Hughes on the bad contract list, Jamario Moon on the good contract list.

I cant see how Tyson Chandlers contract is considered good, at 11.5 million a season. Hes a good player, but he isnt a great man to man defender and the only time he ever scores is off putbacks and allyoops. Hes more successful because of the system/Chris Paul if you ask me.

Moon, while a rookie, isn't on a rookie scale contract. He was signed to a 2 year minimum contract.

Obviously, Shaq making 20 million for the next two seasons is overpaying him but then when you consider revenue that you will make off of him it isnt that bad for ownership, but hes still getting paid way to much for what he gives out.

Ray Allen is making 36 million for the next two seasons, in my opinion thats probably 10 million too much, although he is a big part of the Celtics team.

Bobby Simmons is going to make over 20 million over the next two seasons for the New Jersey Nets, how did the Bucks package him with Yi, to get an All Star Level player like Richard Jefferson. Rod Thorn usually makes good moves so I shouldnt question him but they basically gave him away unless they really have high expectations of Yi.

Scalabrine wrote:Obviously, Shaq making 20 million for the next two seasons is overpaying him but then when you consider revenue that you will make off of him it isnt that bad for ownership, but hes still getting paid way to much for what he gives out.

Ray Allen is making 36 million for the next two seasons, in my opinion thats probably 10 million too much, although he is a big part of the Celtics team.

Bobby Simmons is going to make over 20 million over the next two seasons for the New Jersey Nets, how did the Bucks package him with Yi, to get an All Star Level player like Richard Jefferson. Rod Thorn usually makes good moves so I shouldnt question him but they basically gave him away unless they really have high expectations of Yi.

Thorn is no longer the GM of the Nets. Kiki is now the General Manager. I think the idea behind it was that Simmons will expire before the 2010 season, so they can throw a large wad of cash at LeBron.

I'd throw Rip Hamilton's 7 years/$62M on the good pile.

Greg Buckner's contract isn't guaranteed so I don't think he belongs on this list. I would add Nazr Mohammed, Nene, Radmanovic, Richard Jefferson, AK47, Etan Thomas and Peja Stojakovic to the list.

if marcus camby was really making 15 mil in the next two yrs he wouldn't have gotten dumped by the nuggets. check your numbers.

I checked the contract via hoopshype. If its incorrect, feel free to list a separate, more credible reference.

hoopshype is probably the most unreliable salary source u can get.

http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages ... ippers.jsp

Here some are some, in MY opinion

Good Contracts
Kevin Martin: 5 years, $55M

Bad Contracts
Peja Stojakovic: 3 years, $43.0M
Luke Walton: 5 year, $26.3M
Vladimir Radmanovic: 3 years, $19.4M
Jermaine O'Neal: 2 years, $44.4M
Shaquille O'Neal: 2 years, $40M
Cuttino Mobley: 2 years, $18.9M
Nazr Mohammed: 3 years, $19.4M
Nene: 4 years, $43.1M
Shareef Abdur-Rahim: 2 years, $12.8M

One notable good contract is Chris Paul's new contract, I forgot how much he just signed it this summer

Marbury?

Marbury is an expiring 20 million dollar contract, im sure many teams would love to have it on there team.

Good Contracts:
Hedo Turkoglu: 2 years left/$14,218,700
Steve Nash: 2 years left/$25,375,000
Al Jefferson: 5 year extension/$65,000,000
Leandro Barbosa: 5 year extension/$33,000,000
Manu Ginobli: 5 year extension/$52,000,000

Bad Contracts:
DeSagana Diop: 5 years/Full MLE

St.Nick wrote:What are the best and worst contracts in the NBA at the moment?

Note: Rookie Contracts don't count. And any guy who is in the last year of a bad contract (Marbury, for example) should not be counted since his contract will have value as it gets closer to the end of the year.

I'll kick it off...

Best Contracts (not in sequential order):

Andris Biedrins: 6 years, $54M
Chris Kaman: 4 years, $43.5M
Camby: 2 years, $15.65M
Tyson Chandler: 2 years, $22.8M
Brendan Haywood: 2 years, $11.5M

Luis Scola: 2 years, $6.5M
David West: 3 years, $27.2M

Caron Butler: 3 years, $28.3M
Travis Outlaw: 2 years, $8M
Ryan Gomes: 2 years, $7.3M
Bruce Bowen: 2 years, $8M
Battier: 3 years, $20.5M

Stephen Jackson: 2 years, $14.8M
Ginobili: 2 years, $20.6M

Jose Calderon: 5 years, $45M


Interestingly, there weren't many guards with very good contracts compared to their production.


Worst Contracts:

Dan Gadzuric: 3 years, $20.2M
Ben Wallace: 2 years, $28.5M
Erick Dampier: 3 years, $33.7M
Mark Blount: 2 years, $15.3M
Jerome James: 2 years, $12.8M

Kenyon Martin: 3 years, $47.2M
Troy Murphy: 3 years, $33.2M
Zach Randolph: 3 years, $48M
Boris Diaw: 4 years, $36M
Kenny Thomas: 2 years, $16.5M


Rashard Lewis: 5 years, $99.4M
AK47: 3 years, $49.3M
Quentin Richardson: 2 years, $18.2M
Brian Cardinal: 2 years, $13M
Bobby Simmons: 2 years, $20.4M
Morris Peterson: 3 years, $18.6M
Jared Jefferies: 3 years, $19.5M

Mike Redd: 3 years, $51.1M
Larry Hughes: 2 years, $26.5M
Marko Jaric: 3 years, $21.3M
Greg Buckner: 3 years, $12M

Speedy Claxton: 2 years, $11M
Jamaal Tinsley: 3 years, $21.5M


Feel free to add whoever you'd like or argue about the above players.

I thought Scola's contract is Rookie Contract

IMO Kobe Lebron should counted as good contract
they deserved the max

Scalabrine wrote:Marbury is an expiring 20 million dollar contract, im sure many teams would love to have it on there team.

Oh? Just because a contract is expiring doesn't mean it isn't bad. Think your team would rather pay Speedy Claxton $11M for two years or Stephon Marbury $20M for one?

Based on last year alone:
Shaq / $20,000,000
Jermaine O’Neal / $19,728,000
Mike Bibby / $13,983,603
Ben Wallace / $15,500,000
Larry Hughes / $12,000,084
Michael Finley / $18,593,750
Kwame Brown /$9,075,000 Most over paid all-time……..Thanks to MJ
Theo Ratliff / $11,666,666…………Getting far less this year……
Wally Szczerbiak / $12,775,000
Bobby Simmons / $9,280,000
Adonal Foyle / $7,652,300
Raef LaFrentz / $12,440,787

Marcus Camby made $11,250,000 last year, Camby's contract is one of the rare ones that go down in salary each year.

Good source to see who is being under or over paid.

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And the winner is……….Stephon Marbury / $19,012,500