Basically, I just started running down the salaries team by team and got tired of doing that. Needless to say, there are a lot of large/bad/debatable contracts out there. One approach to determining bad contracts is to categorize them: Bench Player: Max. Salary should be less than $13 mil/year. Below Median Starter: Max. Salary should be less that $16 mil/year. Median or above Median Starter: Salary should be less that $18 mil/year Difference Maker/Star: Salary should be less than $21 mil/year Superstar: Salary should be less than $24 mil/year. The numbers are certainly up for debate, but the concept is not. I love Oladipo, but he is not a difference maker. That being said, given this criteria, you can see why some Blazers are on the list. The HOPE for us, the thunder, and other teams, is that their player's values AND THE CAP will increase with time, making their contracts palatable. There are certain players (such as Omer Asik) where this is very unlikely to happen - Crabbe is definitely not one of those players, and hence should never have been put on the list. p.s. Another even simpler approach is to plot PER vs. annual salary (2 or more years left on contract), do a linear fit, and see who's above and who's below. This wouldn't be the final word, but an intelligent basis to begin a conversation.
Huh? Crabbe should be on the list in the opening post. There are plenty of D-League SGs who do the same thing...miss all their clutch guarded shots and most of their layups, and make 1 or 2 unguarded outside shots per game. We should cut Crabbe and sign one of them. They're 6-3 or 6-4, not 6-7 like him, but they try harder.
