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Originally Posted by Underdog
You guys really think Barnes is gonna be making Dwight Powell money on his next contract? Remember, the cap has gone up since he signed with us. I don’t see $15m per year as unrealistic for him at all — that’s the same ballpark as guys like Ian Mahinmi, Trevor Ariza, and JR Smith... I know Barnes hasn’t lived up to his $25m per year, but it’s not like his game completely fell off a cliff. Dude led the team in scoring the last couple seasons, no reason he can’t put up almost 20 PPG again in the right situation.
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He was the leading scorer of a team looking for a high lottery pick. Every single team in the league has at least one player than score in the 18-20ppg range just because the regular season games need to be reasonably close. It doesn't mean that he's a 18-20 ppg player on a top 4 WC team.
Take Devin Booker for example. He's hitting his big payday next year and will be making $27, 29, 31, and 33 million. He gets a lot of points but he isn't going to get Phoenix in the playoffs.
But and this is a big but, every team has to get to a team salary minimum, which means someone or several people are going to be overpaid on a team that doesn't have legit stars let alone super stars.