THJ gets PAID (4 years/$71M Deal with the Knicks)
He also got a nice 15% trade kicker in case he gets traded. Bartelstein really earned his fee here.
for every time someone offered me 71 million . . . er wait.
on getting that big payday. Word is ATL will match but the Knicks are pretty dumb to give him this much money when they have Melo, D-Rose, Noah and Lee big money. They have to renounce D-Rose contract in order to pay THJ.
Renouncing D-Rose's contract is in no way a bad thing.
Hot damn!
These new NBA contracts are fucking bonkers!
Made his money the Hardaway.
His ascension warranted a raise, and certainly nice to have the bit of luck that comes with the CBA spiking the cap.
That sounds good to me. Indeed, like the last two cycles, he could cover the costs for about two years of HTTV in one big donation, making all of us seem like we're holding back.
Actually, as long as anyone - I don't care who - who cares to give indeed gives more than Andre Roberson leaves as a tip if yesterday's story is the case, that works for me.
has to renouce Derrick Rose contract to make room for THJ.
Now about that Noah contract. That is an awful contract. Phil Jackson has been a bad GM.
Phil is over the hill and over his head. Of course, how hard is it to win games with Michael Jordan/Scottie Pippen then Shaq/Kobe. I mean, cmong on.
(Long time lurker, first time commenter!)
In February, I wrote an article at the NBA blog 16 Wins A Ring about THJ during his run of excellent play in early/mid-February, basically saying that the advanced metrics show that he's been playing at this level for a while and just hadn't gotten the minutes to showcase his skills.
This contract is kinda crazy, but he might be a little more deserving of it than people realize!
https://16winsaring.com/tim-hardaway-jr-has-been-ready-this-whole-time-…
I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I think the article I wrote is tangentially related to the contract news. Aside from thinking that the word is accurate, I also think it's a good adverb! :D
For terrible basketball in a meaningless exhibition game, this is kinda fun.
Turned off by the NBA printing money.
You have it backwards. It is the idiotic network execs that are stepping on their dicks to offer huge amounts of money for broadcasts rights to the NBA which is causing both the costs to carry the channel to increase and also increasing the salary cap which leads to these ridiculous salaries.
works. It isn't that the players get paid first and then the prices follow to keep up with costs. The revenues from TV deals and for tickets are entirely driven by fan demand. And with those revenues, teams pay players what they want (and they are still extremely profitable after paying players these huge salaries).
So good for THJ and the league and the players for producing a product that commands those prices and earns that revenue - the NBA has performed favorably compared to most other television programming in the past few years.
THJ didn't force the public to pay for stadiums. How is this "screwing the little guy"? NBA salaries are through he roof. So what? It isn't a zero sum game. They bring in revenue. People pay to watch. Also, don't blame the politicians, blame the voters. #nopolitics
Great for Hardaway. Happy for him.
NBA suck now though...2 elite teams (Cleveland, GS) and 2 contenders (San Antonio, Boston)
Just terribly uncompetitive.
yes, but in the future, I expect Caris LeVert to take the crown.
Wish this could be higher in the thread.
He'll be a Knick. Atlanta's not going to match this offer.
Love Timmy, but this just shows what is wrong with this world. An average player is going to get almost $20 mill a year when his true value is maybe 3-4 mill. I love sports, but at some point this world needs to stop attending games and stop watching TV.
When so many people in the world can't keep a home and can't afford food there is an issue when basketball players are getting paid $40 Mill a year. They are playing a game that generally offers the world zero value besides getting away from their life for 2-3 hrs and frankly often causes extreme amounts of hate towards other people.
How did you decide/ derive the "true value"?
haha, "true value". Please post your list of true value for other professions so I can ask for a raise or forfeit earnings. Thx.
Not knocking THJ because clearly I'd take the $ too, but that is an absurd amount of money for a guy that is by no means a superstar. All that TV $, ticket revenue, etc. that is driving up these contracts comes from us as consumers and as taxpayers. At what point (if ever) do we as consumers decide the product is overpriced and the bottom fall out of the league?
The bigger discussion of wealth inequality in the world comes down to the capitalist society itself - if the players didn't deserve this kind of money, fans wouldn't be spending money on tickets and TV contracts and merchandise which makes the owners super-rich who then pass along some of that wealth to the players. As long as fans are paying for the product, everyone involved in producing that product are gonna get paid.
I feel like even I could make millions in the NBA.
I can fist bump and cheerlead like a boss, and mix in the occasional chest bump when its earned. I have no problem grabbing water for the superstars. In garbage time I could hit +30% on threes. I gotta be worth $30 million or so..... Need to get me an agent.