Well, Danny, with the trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, it's time to take up a subject

near and dear to our hearts here on Dunned on, and that is the worst contracts in the NBA, and we don't just do this for our own edification and amusement

although I think there are some amusing things about it but But also this matters. We talk about this all the time. We get so many questions.

Oh, could the Nets move Ben Simmons? What some of these contracts that are going to be matching salary?

How do they stack up at the trade deadline?

You see teams totally hamstrung by these

and I think we're going to see some deals that

are really going to be immovable in the coming years, particularly now with the strictures of the

second apron, which I think is a little bit overrated, but it seems to have seeped into the psychology

of some of these teams, and we just saw like Zach Levine try to get traded I'm sure he'll show up on this list so you kind of took the lead on putting these together take us through your process here in determining what some of these candidates are.

So there are a lot of things to consider, and for me the place to kind of to start just for a point of clarification is that the current season, especially when recording this after the trade deadline, the 23-24 season, really doesn't loom too large.

It's pretty small. And so example like expiring I pretty much

never consider expiring contracts in the current year so like is Clay Thompson

overpaid yes is Tobias it pairs overpaid yes they will not figure into this calculation at all. And the other kind of basic

fundamental thing and you've been the one who really brought this to the forefront is one of the ways of

clarifying these contracts is how far underwater are they.

So for example, Lonzo Ball, we don't even know if he's going to play next year and we're not going to factor in the nuances of insurance for NBA teams in part because it's not always

public we don't always know all that kind of stuff but zak let's say lonso ball doesn't

play at all next year one year 21.4 million it is a player option he is going to pick it up but that's 20 million dollars it's a one year

obligation it gets out of the way so that how do you compare that to somebody who's making 30 or 40 million a year that might be more underwater.

And I think that might be more underwater.

And I think we can also throw in too,

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