Who is the best contract in the NBA? Most Bang for Least Buck.

[PhoSita]

Probably Harden at 15 million a year.

[SHAQATTACK]

Lowry, Crowder, IT and Whiteside

[Denis998]

I think a relativly good way to quantify this is to do a Salary per PER calculation.

[CelticSince83]

Demarcus Cousins, IT4, Jae, Harden, Wall, Lowery
Lots of players that signed max contract extensions are coming back to bite them.

That Cousins deal at 35 mil over the next 2 years is pretty sweet. 

[Boris Badenov]

David West.

[KGs Knee]

For this year alone Hassan Whiteside has the distinction of best contract sewn up. The man is making the league minimum. You don't get his kind of production for such little money but once in a blue moon. Whiteside will be making in excess $20 mil next year, though.

For comparison, the league MVP, Steph Curry, is only making $11m this year and $12m next year. That is truly insane.

[PhoSita]

Pointing to guys like Whiteside, IT, and Crowder is nice, but I think the best bang for buck is always going to be superstars, who get paid far below what their value would be in a truly open market.


Top players in the NBA -- Curry, Durant, Kawhi, LeBron, Westbrook, Harden etc. -- would be worth 40-50 million at least with no cap.


Curry and Harden make the least out of those guys.

[greece66]

My underpaid starting line up

1. Curry (11 mill)
2. DeRozan (9.5)
3. Crowder (6.7)
4. Dirk (8.3)
5. Hassan (less than a mill ...)

Total: 36.2 mill ... you can spend the rest of your cap on bench players ). Could arguably be a contender.

PS: is a bit unfair bcs Dirk signed in purpose for little money with a no trade clause to help his team (same as Parker, Duncan etc), instead of this being a genuinely steal contract, in which case just replace with a vet like DWest.

PPS: rookies obviously not included...