
Originally Posted by
Shammyguy3
It's abso****inglutely acceptable man. Let's look at last year... Carlos Boozer last year posted the following:
a 54.9ts% ... 53.2efg% ... 16.1trb% ... 23.8usg% ... 108 ORtg in 66 games played and 1,948 minutes. He was paid $13,500,000 last season.
Last year, the league average for power forwards that played in 40+ games and played 30+mpg was the following: a 54.0ts% ... 49.5efg% ... 14.8trb% ... 25.1usg% ... ___ ORtg .... 61 games and 2,080 minutes played.
The players that factor into those stats are:
Amare Stoudemire $18,217,705
Antawn Jamison $15,076,715
Blake Griffin $5,731,080
Brandon Bass $4,250,000
Chris Bosh $16,022,500
David Lee $11,610,000
Dirk Nowitzki $19,092,873
Josh Smith $12,400,000
Kevin Garnett $21,247,044
Kevin Love $4,609,701
Kris Humphries $8,000,000
LaMarcus Aldridge $12,372,000
Luis Scola $8,591,793
Pau Gasol $18,714,150
Paul Millsap $8,103,435
Ryan Anderson $2,244,601
that's $186,283,597 for 16 players. So, for a starting power forward last year, the average cost was $11,642,725. So that would be your market value for the average starting power forward. Average. Boozer was paid less than $2,000,000 more than the average last year.
When compared to those players, he had the 12th highest usg%, the 8th highest ts%, the 3rd highest efg%, and the 4th highest trb%.
When compared to the entire league last year, Boozer was t-16th in made field goals, the 11th most defensive rebounds, the 16th most total rebounds, the 20th highest efg%, and the 10th highest trb%.
All of that for only playing in 29.5mpg. The guy's contract so far has absolutely 100% been acceptable. Anyone saying it hasn't been is ignorant. If you want to argue he won't be worth his contract for the remaining time he'll be with Chicago, then fine. But we won't truly know until after-the-fact when we can compare him to the league's starting power forwards and their salaries, and his numbers relative to those players and the entire league.