I was inspired to take a look at the Bobcats' salary situation by Sean Deveney's "Most Overpaid Players" article (and David Berri's response).
Here are their 07/08 salaries (rounded to the nearest hundred thousand dollars):
Jason Richardson - $11.1 million
Gerald Wallace - $9.5 million
Matt Carroll - $5.5 million
Emeka Okafor - $5.4 million
Adam Morrison - $3.9 million
Raymond Felton - $3.3 million
Primoz Brezec - $2.8 million [potentially a "great bargain", says Queen City Hoops]
Othella Harrington - $2.4 million
Walter Hermann - $2.0 million
Sean May - $1.9 million
Brevin Knight - $1.5 million (buyout)
Jared Dudley - $1.1 million
Jeff McInnis - $1.1 million ["not a bad price", says Rick Bonnell]
Ryan Hollins - $0.7 million
Jermareo Davidson - $0.4 million
Obviously we are paying well below market for Okafor; his salary should more than double when he signs his extension. Otherwise, these salaries look about right. Kudos to the Bobcats management.
The biggest bargain may be Sean May. He is routinely destroyed by commenters at Rick Bonnell's Charlotte Observer blog, but May has the potential to average 12 points and 12 rebounds next season. And for that potential, we're paying less than $2 million this year. What do we have to complain about?
Hat tip to ShamSports for the salary info, and Kelly Dwyer at TrueHoop for recommending them.
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Sean May will never average a double double. Trust me.
He averaged 12 and 7 this year...in only 24 minutes a game (which is 20 and 11 over 40 minutes). I think never might be a little strong. I won't go so far as to say he definitely will, but he's got the ability to do so, just a matter of if he has the knees.
Is Matt Carrol really making his market value?
Carroll might be slightly overpaid actually - one of the best comparables to him for the past season is Kyle Korver - who will be paid about a million less for his services by the 76'ers than the Bobcats will pay Carroll. Check out their respective numbers on basketball-reference.com and you'll see the similarities. And just because Toronto overpaid for Kapono doesn't mean we needed to do the same with Carroll. Another example - Eddie House, who will be playing for 1.5 million next year in Boston. I know there are examples of players on the other side of the value ledger as well, but just because other teams made poor choices doesn't mean we want the Bobcats doing the same things.
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