[bdangubic]

besides 7-footers chucking 3’s what “skills” do these new nba players have? there are maybe 10 that have any skills, the rest can shoot and that’s about fucking it.

90% of today’s players would play in D league two decades ago

[abenga]

> two decades ago

Are you talking about the age when teams gave contracts to any random player 6'10 and above just to soak up fouls from Shaq?

[bdangubic]

as opposed to now when davis betrans is pushing close $100 million in earnings? :) don’t be funny

[abenga]

Bertans is a close to 8PPG, 40%3P shooter in his career. Sounds like a useful role player to me. Not everyone has to be Lebron James.

[bdangubic]

if we paid $84m to role players NBA will need salary cap equal to US GDP :)

[abenga]

Are you thinking the salary cap hasn't changed from the 90s? The MLE is 12.3m this year, and that is a high-end role player. If one plays at that level for 8 years, they make that amount you're complaining about. And the cap is expected to go up significantly over the next few years (would have gone up more drastically, but the KD to Warriors situation convinced teams to adopt smoothing).

It is true that in general, super stars are underpaid, and role players are overpaid.