The NBA's best and worst contracts

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ben Golliver and Michael Pina take a look at the NBA's best and worst contracts after the trade deadline and the round of buyout agreements. Who is delivering the most value in the league this year? Should LeBron James be the automatic No. 1? Or should all-stars on rookie deals like Luka Doncic and Zion Williamson top the list? Which veteran all-stars are delivering max production on non-max deals and which former second-round picks are way outperforming their contracts? On the flip side, now that guys like Blake Griffin and Andre Drummond have been bought out, which deals are the league's most onerous? Would you rather have John Wall, Russell Westbrook or Kevin Love? Does Klay Thompson have to be mentioned? How does Tobias Harris, who has had an awesome season, factor into this conversation?

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0:54.5	Now some of the big contracts went poof this year, didn't they?
0:57.2	I mean, Blake Griffin made that one disappear like a magic act.
1:00.8	Andre Drummond no longer on the books for that crazy sum after the Cleveland Cavaliers
1:05.4	work out their negotiations and just bite that bullet and now he takes over four Los
1:10.8	Angeles Lakers on, you know, great value contract for them.
1:14.2	So what I thought we would do, Michael, and you and I are not necessarily capologists.
1:17.9	I mean, I think that we're familiar with the numbers and the framework.
1:21.2	I mean, we're not going to be hired as anybody's assistant GM's anytime soon.
1:25.0	Well, maybe I should speak for myself on that one, Michael, but I wasn't trying to throw
1:29.6	shade there, but I thought we would go through our favorite deals, the ones that we feel
1:34.2	like are delivering the most value this season.
1:37.8	And you know, just take a look at it now that all the dust has settled from all these
1:40.9	moves.
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