When you’re 2nd best player is making 175M

And his name is Khris Middleton, you’ve got problems. Those contracts should only be reserved for top 10 NBA players. As a GM giving contracts like that to role playing bums is a championship death knell. I’d rather be in the lottery than in a position like the Bucks are in now.

Hard to attract talent to Milwaukee. These markets are always going to pay overs

The Jrue Holiday contract is egregious as well but front office had to demonstrate to Giannis they were committed to get close to all star players and pay them

Shawn Kemp was best or 2nd best player in the team but was gettinf less Jim McIlvaine

This salary shit is crap.

Raptors championship team had

Lowry $32m

Khawi $25m

Gasol $25m

Ibaka $23m

But they won

Middleton is not even a top 50 player 

When Jeremy Lin got $13 a year contract  that was a joke too

Great player when he's on but he has obviously been beyond awful

@newmarket

 Middleton is not a top 50 player??? You can't be serious...

He's without question a top 50 player. Most certainly in the 30-40 range (same as Jrue Holiday). The man puts up 20/6/5 on 50/40/90 efficiency every season now. 

i’d be more concerned about giannis contract ,this man is great in the regular season but a ghost in the playoffs. when teams have time to plan for him , he’s shut down . He’s a European player , i’ve never seen a european player be an Alpha .. the only one would be Dirk and he could at least shoot the ball . The next in line Alpha European is Doncic but Giannis ain’t a leader , he needs an A player so that he can be a B side kick 

Andrea Bargnani, the ultimate Beta, or is the new champ Porzingis  

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jeremy_Eaton/status/1140615432161902594/photo/1

Heres a fun list of "what were they thinking?":

https://medium.com/sportsraid/worst-nba-international-players-ever-basketball-history-draft-busts-darko-milicic-yi-bargnani-weis-lampe-9e057a27fe82

bingo....market driven supply and demand..no stars demanding to live in utah,cleveland or milwaukee so those teams are in short supply of true marqee game-changing names on their squads or stars to support them.