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LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade.
I saw this article which is translated to Chinese on the internet today,hopefully someone can find the original and post here
What i wanna say is if duncan doesn't deserve a 22million contract ,who deserves?
LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade.
I'll take Timmy over Dwight Howard's choke show any day of the week, thanks.
Dawg you mean only these 5 dudes deserve a 20+million contract ?
Try naming me more then.
I think this is the piece.
Who is (and isn't) worth a max contract?
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132084No: Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki
Both players have been handsomely compensated for years, and rightfully so. Dirk signed his first maximum contract in 2001 and re-upped for the max in 2006. Duncan will make $22.2 million next season, ranking him fourth in the league (behind Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant and Jermaine O'Neal, ludicrously). Dirk was the 2007 MVP and Duncan's won four les, so it's fair to say they earned their dough. But are they worth it now? That's debatable. Nowitzki hasn't led the Mavs past the second round for three years, while Duncan's 33-year-old knees are wearing down. But credit Duncan for knowing he needs help in order to get a fifth ring. He accepted a paycut the next two seasons so the Spurs can re-sign Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker.
Man how about Dirk, Paul pierce and Billups?
Keep dreaming.
Kevin Durant
Not cherrypicking, but he is still an extremely poor defender.
In my opinion there are only really 3 players in the league worth $20m+ and they are Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. Duncan was worth it when he signed the contract he is currently on but he is nowhere near overpaid compared to someone like Jermaine O'Neil or Ben Wallace before he got bought out and was on $14m this season. Tim Duncan and the Spurs both know that he is no longer worth the $20m+ and thus they agreed to lower his salary in the season after next when he signed that extension. Too many players in the NBA are overpaid, we can't just compare players salaries with other players salaries because 70% of the NBA is overpaid.
Of course he deserves it. He's made way more money for the Spurs than he's got as salary.
And THAT is just one of the 400000000000 reasons Tim Duncan deserves any salary he damn wants.
People who write articles like this generally don't seem to actually know much about basketball. They look at the stats and think that measures a player's worth. Um, no. Epic fail.
seriously? billups? he's good and all but 20mil?
Duncan's salary for the rest of this contract.
2009-2010: $22,183,220
2010-2011: $18,700,000
2011-2012: $21,300,000
Anyone can also make the case that Pierce is not even the best player on his tea and has sort of declined.
He definitely has quite a ways to go but "extremely poor" is a bit much for a guy who averages 1.3 SPG and .7 BPG.
I suspect they were signed to their first big contracts before the current CBA came into force, and that's why they are in the money.
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
from a business point of view, duncan shouldn't be getting the max right now. he should be getting $16-18 million because there is no question that he way over on the other side of his prime. from a spurs fan point of view, duncan deserves the max. he always did and he always will.
We shoud not discuss whether Duncan deserves 22M a year, considering Peter Holt paid luxury tax for about 12M to show his respect to Timmy, he's actually getting 34M. Of course he deserves that.
Tim Duncan is a Hall of Famer. He probably deserves 28 million a year.
are we really dicussing about how many millions a player earns for going to the gym and doing what he likes most: playing basketball!
mot people I know, have to pay to do that in their speartime!!!
noone deserves it, but if there is anyone in the history of sports it should be Duncan, coz he is the pros pro and delivered with Championships!
Without him, te spurs might be on the brink of moving somewhere else (just like before Robinson came). Now they should be cemented in SA!
I don't see the writer admitting that Tim was worth way more to the Spurs during his first contract than he was actually being paid back then. In business (and that's what we're talking about here), the career employee who ends up being "overpaid" late in his career (in the view of lower-salaried colleagues) usually can point back to a time when he or she worked just as long and hard (if not longer and harder) for way less compensation. You'd like to think it all averages out in the end. And if it does, I don't see how you can call the late-stage employee "overpaid" on the basis of current production.
Nobody deserves 22 million a year.
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