In 2023-2024, John Wall will be making 47,000,000... let that sink in

[rawimpact]

These owners have really lost it throwing all this money at players who've achieved very little. I get small market teams have to throw more money at star players but c'mon. John Wall is never healthy...

John Wall's career trajectory is following Chris Paul's... who may be the only worst contract 2021-2022 with 44,000,000 that year.


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[AirBonner]

Chris Paul gets a pass on contact because he can still lead teams to the playoffs

[Marchesk]

Westbrook & Harden = $76.7 mil. Would be interesting to see the top two combined contracts for every team.

[Kblaze8855]

Wall had missed 11 games combined in the 4 seasons before his deal was signed.

[AirBonner]

Wall had missed 11 games combined in the 4 seasons before his deal was signed.

And he’s missed majority of games since lol

[StrongLurk]

All of those contracts are disgusting except for Lebron.

Honestly players make too much money nowadays, although that's not their fault.

[Smoke117]

All of those contracts are disgusting except for Lebron.

Honestly players make too much money nowadays, although that's not their fault.

The super max may help smaller market teams keep stars, but they also just end up overpaying guys (like Wall) who just don't have close to enough impact to take up all that cap space. I guess it keeps the fans interested, but it basically puts them on a treadmill as you just can't go anywhere doing that. Also, taking into account how much revenue is made by the NBA...players aren't overpaid.

[HylianNightmare]

I'll still be a fan

[iamgine]

These owners have really lost it throwing all this money at players who've achieved very little. I get small market teams have to throw more money at star players but c'mon. John Wall is never healthy...

John Wall's career trajectory is following Chris Paul's... who may be the only worst contract 2021-2022 with 44,000,000 that year.


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That is wrong. John Wall was pretty healthy in his first 7 seasons.

[Sulico]

2023 will be the year of epic battle between Westbrook and Wall for the title of worst contract in human history.

[Kblaze8855]

The super max may help smaller market teams keep stars, but they also just end up overpaying guys (like Wall) who just don't have close to enough impact to take up all that cap space. I guess it keeps the fans interested, but it basically puts them on a treadmill as you just can't go anywhere doing that. Also, taking into account how much revenue is made by the NBA...players aren't overpaid.

Correct.

People really don’t think this through. Only look at the eye popping number and don’t think of how much money the league generates. When Wall makes 47 million the cap will be about 144 million give or take(“pandemic” impact not yet known). It’s the 1997 equivalent of paying 8.8 million. Wouldn’t even be a top 10 salary then. Horace Grant made 15 million against a 27 million dollar cap and was expected to be his teams third best player. They were giving high end role players half the cap.

47 million in 24 is less than Juwan Howard made in the 90s. Less than 97 Rodman.

John Wall will make a little north of Danny Manning/Ac Green money from the early 90s as far as percentage of the cap. Owners don’t count dollar figure. Owners care about the cut of the total and gms care about the percentage of the cap. Nothing else matters.

If the cap is 200 dollars paying a guy 150 bucks makes it harder to build a good team than if the cap is 200 million and I pay him 100 million of it. It’s all about cap hit and people just can’t get their heads around it yet.


Wall has a bad deal with his new injury proneness....but it’s not that out of line with historical contracts.

[coin24]

Wall was healthy before the ankle / achilles disaster, although it's hard to say he was ever worth a super max deal.
You'd think they would have learnt after arenas.

Injury prone would be Beal..