Top 25 Worst Contracts

[Mezotarkus]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... 100208/two

Awesome how our management team has had a hand in 5 of the worst 25 contracts in the league currently. Management created 2 (Carroll and Okafor) and traded for 3 (2 of which we still have).

25. Jose Calderon -- four years, $37.6m
24. Andrei Kirilenko -- two years, $34.3m
23. Jason Richardson -- two years, $27.7m
22. Corey Maggette -- four years, $39.8m
21. Peja Stojakovic -- two years, $27.6m
20. Kirk Hinrich -- three years, $26.5m
19. Matt Carroll -- four years, $16.4m
18. Rasheed Wallace -- three years, $19m
17. Andres Nocioni -- three years, $21m
16. Charlie Villanueva -- five years, $40m
15. Jason Maxiell -- four years, $20m
14. Luke Walton -- four years, $21.5m
13. Francisco Garcia -- four years, $23.2m
12. Hedo Turkoglu -- five years, $53m
11. Baron Davis -- four years, $53.7m
10. Boris Diaw -- three years, $27m
9. Richard Hamilton -- four years, $48.5m
8. Richard Jefferson -- two years, $29m
7. Michael Redd -- two years, $35.3m
6. Ben Gordon -- five years, $55m
5. Desagana Diop -- four years, $26.8m
4. Rashard Lewis -- four years, $80.4m
3. Emeka Okafor -- five years, $63m
2. Elton Brand -- four years, $66m
1. Gilbert Arenas -- five years, $96m

[Rich4114]

heh, we actually traded Carroll for Diop and it's gonna cost us another $10m for a guy who only plays spot minutes... some games...

[fatlever]

read the part about gerald wallace... so sad that the rest of the world and 100,000 fans in person saw wallace have an awful all-star game. hopefully he will get another chance some day.

[Paydro70]

On the other hand, Crash is listed among the best contracts, and he does make Simmons' trade value list.

Seems to me that Diop ought to be #3 though... tough to get worse than that deal for a guy who never plays. I guess Emeka is so high because it's a 5 year deal?

I think he should have used the rule "ignoring team poverty, if the team could, would they immediately nullify their contract and let them walk?" That might be true of Okafor, but not as true as it would be for many of those players, especially the ones that are really terrible (Diop!).

[W_HAMILTON]

Why is Richardson's 2 year, 27.7 million contract up there but not Chandler's 2 year, 24.3 million?

[thruthefire]

It's Bill Simmons.

[Walt Cronkite]

Desperate situations call for desperate measures...

[PDXKnight]

Any list that doesn't include Reshard Lewis's horrible deal isn't credible.

[Walt Cronkite]

...#4?

[Mezotarkus]

This is just Simmons view and I think the omission of Chanders contract is an obvious flaw.

[fatlever]

yeah, no doubt chandler belongs on that list. and okafor shouldnt be #3. thats too high for sure.