Just for fun (as well as a reminder of how absurd some NBA GM’s and owners can be) take a look at the following list of players who will be making just about the same, or in some cases, a crazy amount more than Kevin Garnett next season:
Joe Johnson – $19.7
Corey Maggette – $10.3
Luol Deng – $13.3
Ben Gordon – $12.4
David Lee – $12.7
Richard Jefferson – $10.2
Andrew Bogut – $13.0
Kevin Martin – $12.4
Kobe Bryant – $27.8
Zach Randolph – $16.5
Rudy Gay – $16.5
Emeka Okafor – $13.5
Carmelo Anthony -$20.5
Amare Stoudemire – $19.9
Hedo Turkoglu – $11.8
Elton Brand – $18.1
Andre Iguodala – $14.7
Stephen Jackson – $10.1
Jose Calderon – $10.6
Andrea Bargnani – $10.0
Rashard Lewis – $21.1
Nene – $13.0
Two other notables are Gilbert Arenas – $20.8 (amnestied by ORL, still being paid by them) and Baron Davis – $14.9 (amnestied by CLE, still being paid). Obviously some of these players are good or even great as in the case of Kobe. But for the next two years would you rather pay KG $11 mil per or Kobe nearly $30 mil per? With the new hard cap/tax era the NBA lives in, I think that answer is easy. So yeah, Danny Ainge and the C’s got a steal.
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