Originally Posted by Mitchellicious
There is no way on God's green Earth that Amare Stoudemire deserves a $20 million a year contract. Someone needs to sit him down and talk some sense into him. And dude's agent's name is Happy. Damn right he will be if he gets that amount of money. Ridiculous.
This is fundamentally what's wrong with the NBA, stupid people paying stupid contracts. The new CBA should involve a pay scheme that rates players in tiers based on talent. The only players that should earn a max contract in the league are Kobe, LeBron, Wade, CP3, Howard & maybe Melo & Durant. That's Tier 1. Every player after them should fall into a tier group and get paid accordingly. Somebody like Hollinger would have to create some BS formula to get this to actually work, but nobody should be seeing Tier 1 unless they play their way into it and/or show the same leadership qualities as those mentioned above.
Note: I'm not counting older guys that are way past their prime or younger guys that haven't proved a lot yet.