Spring Break
Who is earning their pay?
Marc Gauthier
Issue date: 4/22/09 Section: Sports
In Game 2 of the Chicago Bulls-Boston Celtics series, Ben Gordon and Ray Allen put on a shooting clinic. Quite frankly, in all my years of watching the NBA, I've never seen two players hit so many consecutive big-time shots for their teams.
For the Bulls and the Celtics' franchises, they were both certainly getting their money's worth for these players.
Then I started thinking about it. Were they really getting their money's worth from these two players?
Allen is slated to make $18,388,430 this season, while Gordon will take home a measly $6,404,750.
If you break it down, Allen has earned $12,823 for every point he scored, $266,498 for every steal he got and $1,414,494 for every block he had this season.
Gordon, on the other hand, earned $3,770 for every point he scored, $90,207 for every steal he got and $291,125 for every block he had.
So who's the better deal? In Game 2, it was Allen, because, after all, you can't put a price on game-winning shots.
In light of wondering who was worth their salary, I did some research on other players who are playing really well for their teams - only playoff teams - and compiled a list of who's worth their money and who's not.
Worth Every Penny
Paul Milsap, Utah Jazz, $797,581 - This year Milsap averaged 13.5 points and 8.6 rebounds a game for the Jazz and was huge for Jerry Sloan's club when Carlos boozer went down.
Glen Davis, Boston Celtics, $797,581 - Is it me or did Big Baby Davis seem to hit every big jump shot in the Celtics' Game 2 win? If Davis didn't hit all those jumpers early on in that game, Allen's game winning 3-pointer would have been nothing more than a meaningless buzzer beater.
In the two games so far, Davis is averaging 22 points and six rebounds while playing 40 minutes a game.
Chris Anderson, Denver Nuggets, $797,581 - They call him the "bird man" because he literally flies in and swats away any shot an opponent puts up. In the Nuggets' first game against New Orleans, Anderson put up nine points, six rebounds and four blocks. On the season, the 6-foot-10 Texas native was averaging 2.5 blocks a game, second only to Dwight Howard.
For the Bulls and the Celtics' franchises, they were both certainly getting their money's worth for these players.
Then I started thinking about it. Were they really getting their money's worth from these two players?
Allen is slated to make $18,388,430 this season, while Gordon will take home a measly $6,404,750.
If you break it down, Allen has earned $12,823 for every point he scored, $266,498 for every steal he got and $1,414,494 for every block he had this season.
Gordon, on the other hand, earned $3,770 for every point he scored, $90,207 for every steal he got and $291,125 for every block he had.
So who's the better deal? In Game 2, it was Allen, because, after all, you can't put a price on game-winning shots.
In light of wondering who was worth their salary, I did some research on other players who are playing really well for their teams - only playoff teams - and compiled a list of who's worth their money and who's not.
Worth Every Penny
Paul Milsap, Utah Jazz, $797,581 - This year Milsap averaged 13.5 points and 8.6 rebounds a game for the Jazz and was huge for Jerry Sloan's club when Carlos boozer went down.
Glen Davis, Boston Celtics, $797,581 - Is it me or did Big Baby Davis seem to hit every big jump shot in the Celtics' Game 2 win? If Davis didn't hit all those jumpers early on in that game, Allen's game winning 3-pointer would have been nothing more than a meaningless buzzer beater.
In the two games so far, Davis is averaging 22 points and six rebounds while playing 40 minutes a game.
Chris Anderson, Denver Nuggets, $797,581 - They call him the "bird man" because he literally flies in and swats away any shot an opponent puts up. In the Nuggets' first game against New Orleans, Anderson put up nine points, six rebounds and four blocks. On the season, the 6-foot-10 Texas native was averaging 2.5 blocks a game, second only to Dwight Howard.
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