NBA MAVINS - HELP ME OUT.
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Looking at the roster of the Memphis Grizzlies, I see Wayne listed with a salary of over half of a million dollars. If he doesn’t make the final cut and goes to the D-League for the Grizzlies, does he still get paid that amount. Also, I don’t see Perry Ellis on the Mavericks roster.
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@wrwlumpy isn’t Perry a hornet?
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Did he start with the Mavs? http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/smithology/2016/jun/28/examining-perry-ellis-chances-with-the-d/ I see his name on the roster for the Hornets on the ESPN teams list. He is the only one on the list that doesn’t have a salary after his name.
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Mike Conley 26 million. Chandler Parsons 22 million, Nicolas Batum 20 million, Let those numbers sink in for a minute! I’ve not heard of Batum.
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@wrwlumpy wow. Michael Jordan and co have managed to assemble another roster that is Middling at best.
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@wissoxfan83 Batum is a Frenchman who was a solid player for the Blazers for a long time.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Interesting that he is making more that Walker to me, Walker has carried this team as of late. @wrwlumpy I guess I never heard of perry with any other team. I posted that he had signed with the Hornets right after it happened, since deleted with the issue the site had.
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@kjayhawks Batum averaged 15-6-6 last year for the Hornets which were career highs in points and assists. With the salary cap having skyrocketed the past two years, guys like Batum can pull down $20 mil/year. Kemba Walker will probably be in $25 mil/year and up range next time his deal is renegotiated.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Ya the cap is probably the main reason, I’m not saying he isn’t a good player I think he has a lot of upside.
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@wissoxfan83
You obviously do not follow the NBA. Batum is a solid player. If Andrew Harrison can make close to $1M then Selden is a bargain.
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@JayHawkFanToo so is that a bad thing? I only follow NBA Jayhawks.
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Selden low salary is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, if everything between Selden and Harrison is pretty close and they need to get rid of one, likely the dump the one with the higher salary. Mario stayed with the Heat initially because of his low salary and once he proved his value he got a substantial raise.
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@JayHawkFanToo I meant how you were talking to @wissoxfan83
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Ha, ha. The NBA has changed quite a bit in the last few years; more defense is played and players are actually taking pride on playing solid defense. Salaries are still outrageously high and some of them make no sense whatsoever. Whether we like it or not, the NBA is still the Gold Standard for basketball.
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Selden’s salary represents the rookie league minimum. Notice that he is making the exact same amount as Treveon Graham, Rasheed Sulaimon, Mike Tobey, Andrew Andrews,Vince Hunter, and Troy Williams. If he goes to the D-League, that salary gets pro-rated along with the D-League rate, so that every day he is in the D-League he gets paid at the D-League rate, and every day he is on the NBA roster, he gets that rate.
Since the D-League salaries are less than $30,000 per year, each day on the NBA roster represents a significant pay increase, as he will make more in a month on the NBA roster than he can all year in the D-League.
The value of guys like Selden (and Batum also, oddly) is that they can guard multiple positions and shoot the three. That’s perfect for the current pace and space style that is prevalent in the NBA. Having multiple guys that can play multiple spots off the bench is a necessity. Almost every guy that is making the minimum is taller than 6-4 and can shoot the three, except for Tobey, who is a seven footer (the game will always have a place for footers) and Andrew Andrews, who is basically PG insurance for the preseason and likely won’t make the final Hornet roster.
Ellis likely will not make the Hornets roster. Selden has been given a chance to make the Grizzlies roster, particularly since they want to go more uptempo.
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@justanotherfan Perry’s surgery came at a bad time for him. Hope the best for him, he deserves it!
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@Crimsonorblue22 I sent him a private message about that but apparently it did no good.
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He may be slated to miss the full year, but Charlotte may have worked something out to have him work with them and do rehab this season because they are interested in seeing him once he is fully healthy. That would be the best case scenario for Perry basketball wise.
