another thing people forget is, say we DONT sign jeff green, its not like we would then have $9million dollars to allocate somewhere else...we are/were cap strapped before signing him with what we could do.
that is why Danny looked to re-sign most of his players...and we had to trade to get Courtney Lee.
This is true. If we hadn't signed Green, he would have left for nothing, and we couldn't refill his salary slot this season.
The question, then, is whether it is better to overpay a player (who will then take up a disproportionate amount of the cap in future seasons, or let him go for no compensation.
Which future seasons?
The three seasons after this one.
At this level of play, there's no question that Green's cap hit is disproportionate to his production.
Theres probably 30 players on a higher salary who've started out the season worse than him.
Here's the list:
Jeff Green 8,375,000
Shawn Marion 8,396,364
Devin Harris 8,500,000
Rodney Stuckey 8,500,000
Mo Williams 8,500,000
Jameer Nelson 8,600,000
Paul Millsap 8,603,633
Ryan Anderson 8,700,000
Steve Nash 8,900,000
Andris Biedrins 9,000,000
Danilo Gallinari 9,439,000
Tim Duncan 9,638,554
Gerald Wallace 9,682,435
Andrei Kirilenko 9,779,349
JaVale McGee 10,000,000
David West 10,000,000
Andrea Bargnani 10,000,000
Stephen Jackson 10,059,750
Richard Jefferson 10,164,000
DeAndre Jordan 10,532,977
Jose Calderon 10,561,982
Nicolas Batum 10,825,000
Corey Maggette 10,924,138
Rajon Rondo 11,000,000
Monta Ellis 11,000,000
Joakim Noah 11,300,000
Kevin Garnett 11,566,265
Hidayet Turkoglu 11,815,850
Al Horford 12,000,000
Kris Humphries 12,000,000
Ben Gordon 12,400,000
Kevin Martin 12,439,675
Tony Parker 12,500,000
David Lee 12,744,000
Andrew Bogut 13,000,000
Nene 13,000,000
Danny Granger 13,058,606
Josh Smith 13,200,000
Luol Deng 13,305,000
Emeka Okafor 13,490,000
LaMarcus Aldridge 13,500,000
Tyson Chandler 13,604,188
Brook Lopez 13,668,750
Roy Hibbert 13,668,750
Kevin Love 13,668,750
Eric Gordon 13,668,750
Russell Westbrook 13,668,750
(Rashard Lewis) 13,699,551
Marc Gasol 13,891,359
Emanuel Ginobili 14,107,491
Andre Iguodala 14,968,250
Carlos Boozer 15,000,000
Al Jefferson 15,000,000
Derrick Rose 16,402,552
Rudy Gay 16,460,538
Zach Randolph 16,500,000
Kevin Durant 16,669,629
Paul Pierce 16,790,345
Andrew Bynum 16,889,000
Deron Williams 17,177,795
Dwyane Wade 17,182,000
Chris Bosh 17,545,000
LeBron James 17,545,000
Chris Paul 17,779,458
Pau Gasol 19,000,000
Dwight Howard 19,536,360
Joe Johnson 19,752,645
Amar'e Stoudemire 19,948,799
Carmelo Anthony 20,463,024
Dirk Nowitzki 20,907,128
Kobe Bryant 27,849,149
i get Devin Harris, Maggette, Richard jefferson, stuckey, Turkoglu
With considerations for Dirk, Nash, Nene, Granger, Bogut, Love, Eric gordon, Rose, Bynum, Amare who are all clearly substantially better but injured.