$14,200,000 For RJ? That's a bargain!

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Have you ever looked at how much you get paid at work for every phone call you answer, memo you type, TPS report you complete, porn site you look up while you're supposed to be completing said TPS report? Well, if you haven't, you should. It's fun. But instead of coming up with ratios that translate to pennies per task, let's look at some mega dollar per task calculations for our beloved Spurs.

We're slightly less than 60% through the regular season, so if you take each player's salary to date, and apply their individual statistics you get the following results. There's nothing really surprising, but doing this calculation gives you some perspective on what bargains guys like Hill, Blair and even Bogans are, compared to their teammates. Of course, there's no way to measure the contribution a guy like Duncan gives a team, except to say he's worth every penny and more.

If nothing else, you can use these stats to confirm for yourself just how awesome it must be to be an NBA basketball player, and how grossly underpaid you probably are by comparison.

$$$ Earned Per Game Appearance This Season
Tim Duncan $288,170
Tony Parker $179,268
Richard Jefferson $176,778
Manu Ginobili $145,655
Ian Mahinmi $129,030
Michael Finley $71,138
Matt Bonner $58,677
Antonio McDyess $57,213
Roger Mason $48,059
Theo Ratliff $37,176
Marcus Haslip $23,280
Malik Hairston $20,955
George Hill $13,191
Keith Bogans $13,138
Dejuan Blair $10,366


$$$ Earned Per Minute Played This Season
Ian Mahinmi $15,004
Tim Duncan $8,945
Malik Hairston $6,028
Richard Jefferson $5,680
Tony Parker $5,598
Manu Ginobili $5,440
Marcus Haslip $5,291
Michael Finley $4,368
Theo Ratliff $4,266
Matt Bonner $3,350
Antonio McDyess $2,730
Roger Mason $2,453
Keith Bogans $649
Dejuan Blair $568
George Hill $499


$$$ Earned Per Point Scored This Season
Malik Hairston $44,006
Ian Mahinmi $35,842
Theo Ratliff $22,961
Michael Finley $16,063
Tim Duncan $14,778
Richard Jefferson $14,505
Manu Ginobili $11,069
Tony Parker $10,650
Marcus Haslip $9,312
Antonio McDyess $9,305
Matt Bonner $8,530
Roger Mason $6,528
Keith Bogans $2,708
Dejuan Blair $1,392
George Hill $1,193


$$$ Earned Per Rebound Grabbed This Season
Tony Parker $73,816
Richard Jefferson $48,488
Ian Mahinmi $43,010
Michael Finley $42,683
Manu Ginobili $41,616
Malik Hairston $40,005
Tim Duncan $26,943
Marcus Haslip $23,280
Roger Mason $21,930
Theo Ratliff $19,517
Matt Bonner $16,550
Antonio McDyess $10,186
George Hill $6,041
Keith Bogans $4,940
Dejuan Blair $1,587


$$$ Earned Per Assist Made This Season
Ian Mahinmi $645,151
Tim Duncan $90,793
Michael Finley $87,877
Theo Ratliff $86,743
Richard Jefferson $85,711
Antonio McDyess $70,764
Malik Hairston $55,007
Matt Bonner $53,787
Manu Ginobili $31,885
Tony Parker $29,997
Roger Mason $25,668
Dejuan Blair $15,873
Keith Bogans $10,466
George Hill $5,621
Marcus Haslip n/a (no assists)

[weebo]

Don't let Peter Holt look at this thread....he might drink himself to death.

[BillMc]

Hey, RJ has been a better deal for us than McGrady for Houston. RJ's not even the worst deal in Texas.

:bang

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

It could be worse...

How about Kenny Thomas from the Kings:

$$$ Per Game Appearance: $196,577
$$$ Per Minute Played: $16,329
$$$ Per Point Scored: $124,659
$$$ Per Rebound: $59,430
$$$ Per Assist: $340,734

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Hey, RJ has been a better deal for us than McGrady for Houston. RJ's not even the worst deal in Texas.

:bang

The mother of all contracts:

TMac:

$$$ Per Game Appearance: $2,361,744.
$$$ Per Minute: $314,899
$$$ Per Point: $745,814
$$$ Per Rebound: $2,834,093
$$$ Per Assist: $2,361,744

[DPG21920]

Ian is ballin in any per minute metric you want to use to evaluate the guy. Free Ian!!!!!!

[TIMMYD!]

I just need to get one of Tim's assists and I will be set up for the rest of the year.

[BillMc]

The mother of all contracts:

TMac:

$$$ Per Game Appearance: $2,361,744.
$$$ Per Minute: $314,899
$$$ Per Point: $745,814
$$$ Per Rebound: $2,834,093
$$$ Per Assist: $2,361,744

That's some quick math! :toast:toast

Are you an accountant? Or Holt trying to make himself feel better! :)

[spurtech09]

dumb thread........

[EP Money Man]

$$$ Earned Per Game Appearance This Season

George Hill $13,191
Dejuan Blair $10,366


$$$ Earned Per Minute Played This Season

Dejuan Blair $568
George Hill $499


$$$ Earned Per Point Scored This Season

Dejuan Blair $1,392
George Hill $1,193


$$$ Earned Per Rebound Grabbed This Season

George Hill $6,041
Dejuan Blair $1,587


$$$ Earned Per Assist Made This Season

Dejuan Blair $15,873
George Hill $5,621


WORTH EVERY PENNY:flag:

[Big P]

Don't let Peter Holt look at this thread....he might drink himself to death.

Your a dumbass.

[portnoy1]

I am still upset about the RJ trade. For $14million you should get back pieces not just 1 dude. Lets say RJ played great or his worth in money. What would happen if he got hurt all of a sudden? That trade goes from brilliant to stupid with one injury. If he got Injured now it really wouldnt make too much of a difference looking at his contributions. At the end of the 2008-09 season it showed we needed another guy who score at the wing positions and we also needed a shot-blocker and rebounder. We also needed a wing-defender. Thats 4 needs; and we have spent $22million on perimeter scorer - RJ / Rebounder - Mcdyess / ShotBlocker - Ratliff / Wing-Defender Bogans. For $22million could we have done better? I think so.

[dbreiden83080]

176 grand a game.. My fuckin Sister is a doctor and doesn't make that much in a year..

[Pauleta14]

dumb thread........

:toast

[Slomo]

The mother of all contracts:

TMac:

$$$ Per Game Appearance: $2,361,744.
$$$ Per Minute: $314,899
$$$ Per Point: $745,814
$$$ Per Rebound: $2,834,093
$$$ Per Assist: $2,361,744

:nutkick:

[StoneBuddha]

And if you want to make it worse. You can always add in the luxury tax payment into how much the Spurs are paying for RJ...

[SpurCharger]

Tell you that Certain Guys are over Paid..... and A guy like George Hill Needs To Be paid!

[timvp]

You can't really put guys like Blair/Hill on lists like this when they are on rookie contracts. Of course, they are bargains. But yeah... RJ sucks. :)

-Kori

[DPG21920]

I know TP and Manu have some injuries and such, but can anyone really say that TP and Manu in their roles have not been just as bad as RJ in his? This is relative to what the team needs from them in order to contend.

This is not to defend RJ, but TP and Manu have been just as bad imo.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

You can't really put guys like Blair/Hill on lists like this when they are on rookie contracts. Of course, they are bargains. But yeah... RJ sucks. :)

-Kori


They wouldn't be bargains if they weren't contributing. Mahinmi's contract, because he's not playing, doesn't look like a bargain.

But you're right, you can't compare their contracts to guys like Duncan, Parker, Manu, Jefferson.

It's really just a fun way to look at their numbers...not so much to compare players to each other, as to see how much these guys get compensated to play a game.

[timvp]

They wouldn't be bargains if they weren't contributing. Mahinmi's contract, because he's not playing, doesn't look like a bargain.

But you're right, you can't compare their contracts to guys like Duncan, Parker, Manu, Jefferson.

It's really just a fun way to look at their numbers...not so much to compare players to each other, as to see how much these guys get compensated to play a game.

Just give me one Mahinmi assist and I'm good. :)

--Kori

[Blackjack]

$$$ Earned Per Rebound Grabbed This Season

Tony Parker $73,816
Richard Jefferson $48,488

That truly is a bargain for RJ. You'd think his size and athleticism would combine to make a truly rare commodity in this respect, which should easily have him earning more than anyone on the team in this category; 6-8 guys who can jump out the gym usually stumble their way into more rebounds.

RJ's a rare bird, which I guess you could say makes him worth every penny.:tu

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

dumb thread........


Thanks!


The encouraging thing about you is that you'll probably come back and call this a good thread later:






spurs are a average team....


oh....wait a minute......


I still have faith in the spurs...there a good team.....












And then there's this.....


I rather have finely start over rj

followed by...


yeah....I don't know why people keep dissing rj. like he is the reason the spurs are losing

Oh, and he is a BIG reason the Spurs are losing...btw.
















Sometimes your change of heart can take only 4 minutes:


well im been a spurs fan for yrs. and im still am but damn spurs do suck...

and then the change of opinion, in 3....2.....1......


r you kidding....spurs are not bad they just need to get it together













So...let me just take care of this for you now.....


awesome thread! The Chopper is the coolest poster in the history of Spurstalk! I'm going to lick his bojangles if I ever have the honor of meeting him!!! Yahoo!!!

[HarlemHeat37]

LOL daaaamn, spurstech09 just got ether'd..that wasn't fair..

[ChrisRichards]

176 grand a game.. My fuckin Sister is a doctor and doesn't make that much in a year..
Vets are not supposed to make that much in a year.

[DynastySpurs210]

Ian Mahinmi earns $129,030 per game??? "WOW" now i see why the Spurs never play him.


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[Galileo]

bump for good stats!

[iminol]

Don't let Peter Holt look at this thread....he might drink himself to death.

LOL. Give him polish vodka.