{"id":2280,"date":"2025-07-11T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2280\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:13:07","slug":"ranking-the-8-worst-nba-contracts-on-the-books-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2280\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 8 Worst NBA Contracts on the Books Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Remaining Contract Value: 4 years, $72.0 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Average Percentage of Salary Cap: 10.14<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Additional notes: 2028-29 player option (age-27 season)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Patrick Williams is not the biggest financial roadblock in terms of percentage of the salary cap. But he&#8217;s a bonafide financial liability when considering the length of his deal and the value he provides on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Select people continue to hold out hope he can emerge as someone who provides dribs and drabs of value at both ends. It isn&#8217;t hard to see the vision on defense, but offense is a different story. His career 39.2 percent clip from deep is nice, although it&#8217;s built on negligible volume (3.1 attempts per game), and he&#8217;s never come close to qualifying as a positive-impact contributor on the more glamorous end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Just look at where he&#8217;s ranked in <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bball-index.com\/leaderboards-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">BBall-Index&#8217;s O-LEBRON<\/a> since entering the NBA:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">At only 23, Williams remains capable of getting better. It is nevertheless baffling that the Chicago Bulls gave him a five-year contract and a player option while (likely) negotiating against themselves in 2024 restricted free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remaining Contract Value: 4 years, $72.0 million Average Percentage of Salary Cap: 10.14 Additional notes: 2028-29 player option&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}