{"id":906593,"date":"2026-09-23T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:42:17","slug":"predicting-the-nbas-5-best-and-5-worst-contracts-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906593\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the NBA&#8217;s 5 Best and 5 Worst Contracts This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">2026-27 Salary: $13.1 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Salary Rank\/Cap Percentage: No. 142 overall, 7.9 percent<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Deni Avdija had the lowest salary of any 2026 NBA All-Star, outside of rookie contracts. His rise to stardom has contrasted with his contract, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/70651\/deni-avdija\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">one that was frontloaded<\/a> and will drop even lower\u00a0next season (to $11.9 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Avdija, 25, was the Portland Trail Blazers&#8217; best player last season, averaging 24.2 points, 6.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists and shooting 46.2 percent overall from the field. He led Portland to a winning record and a playoff appearance despite some major early-season coaching drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">One of the most offensively gifted forwards in the NBA, at 6&#8217;8&#8243;, Avdija has shown dramatic growth in all six of his professional seasons and has gotten to the free-throw line a whopping 9.2 times a game. Now with some added offensive talent around him in Ja Morant and Damian Lillard, defenses won&#8217;t be able to double-team the All-Star forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">A major payday is coming in the summer of 2028. For now, the Blazers can enjoy having the second-best value contract in the entire NBA on their books for another two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-27 Salary: $13.1 million Salary Rank\/Cap Percentage: No. 142 overall, 7.9 percent Deni Avdija had the lowest salary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-906593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}