Welcome on, everybody, to a Monday night edition of Dunkton Prime.

And I know that you all view this podcast as simply a relentless well of positivity.

And in this vein, we are going to tell you about the best contracts in the NBA.

So, Danny, let's remind people who are new listeners or simply have somehow forgotten

what our criteria are for the best contracts in the NBA. So you always have to pick a frame for

this and we do it from the team perspective. So these are the best contracts from the team

perspective. If you want to think about it from the players, you could kind of do it the opposite way. And the other kind of component of this, the way that we

think about it is that it is more about surplus value. So how much, you know, how much more in an

ideal world would this be player be making instead of what they are making now? And then because

this is best contracts, there are a few different types of contracts that are excluded from

consideration. And the basic guidebook on that is it's the contracts that are that are structure,

that are that have structural limitations. So that could be maximum contracts.

So Shea or Yukic would make more if there weren't an individual max.

That is rookie scale contracts.

Victor Webanyama, obviously, if he had the ability to negotiate fully, he would have gotten more, he would deserve more.

And then there's kind of an offshoot of that, which is I like to describe it as a player's first contract because second round picks aren't subject to the rookie scale, those sorts of

players. And so, like, for example, I'll mention him, but like technically A.J. Mitchell is not

on his first contract because he was a two-way and then they did a conversion with a new contract

on it. But spiritually, he's on his first contract because there are limitations that come and

play there.

Outside of those things, you're pretty much in the conversation.

Yeah, and I think we can talk about it on a case-by-case basis.

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