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Why Role Players are Getting So Expensive



Why Role Players are Getting So Expensive

Throughout the offseason, we’ve seen role players in the NBA receiving some head-scratchingly large contracts. Isaiah Hartenstein secured a $87M deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope nabbed a $66M deal with the Orlando Magic, and Nic Claxton got a $99M deal with the Brooklyn Nets.

Perhaps the largest contract for a role player we’ve seen is for OG Anunoby, who will be making upwards of $40M per year on average for the New York Knicks.

So why, all of a sudden, are we seeing role players getting so much money? Is this anything new? The truth is, as is the case with most things, that it’s more complicated than just “overpaid or not”. In this NBA video essay, we get to the bottom of it.

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21 Comments

  1. Idc how many videos you make all of these are overpays idk if its 33% or 12% its ridiculous. Some of these dudes don’t even average 12/5 and are getting paid Buku cash… it’s ridiculous

  2. Role players help championships more than the stars do…pay needs to go up role players and lower for stars…guys need reality checks, being popular don’t win games, it sells tickets, that’s all

  3. the simple answer is that the game is evolving. role players now and days are asked to do alot more for teams than they used to.

  4. Tobias is going down in history as the greatest bag chaser everπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ Klay should have talked to Tobias agent if he really wanted a bag

  5. To be entirely honest, going by what I've heard about Mr Pippen's payroll. If you are getting more than him, relative to inflation, without having the record of a 90's Chicago Bull player. In my general opinion, with these details in mind, you are overpaid. No two ways about it.

  6. I think the answer is simple: aaron gordon. GMs are now looking at role players as the missing piece to create championship teams, not borderline stars like Zach Lavine and Bradley Beal.

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