| The Knicks' $2.5M Per Hour Man Authored by Christopher Reina - January 19, 2009 - 4:46 pm
| Current Featured Columns | | Merry Christmas, Raptors Fans The Raptors might not be playing good basketball right now, but there are plenty of things for Toronto fans to be thankful for this holiday season.
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I reluctantly admit to liking the signing at the time for two main reasons:
a.) James had a very good season for an exciting and successful 04-05 Sonics team that culminated with an excellent playoff series against Sacramento in which he averaged 17.2 points and 9.4 rebounds.
b.) Acquiring Eddy Curry in a long drawn out negotiation with Chicago was a long shot scenario and Isiah Thomas had already dealt Nazr Mohammed months earlier in the deal that netted David Lee and also traded Kurt Thomas for Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson. The remaining bigs on the roster at that point were rookies Lee and Channing Frye, plus Malik Rose, Mike Sweetney, Jackie Butler and Maurice Taylor.
James had more combined turnovers (75) and personal fouls (179) than points was just about as apathetic as any player I've seen. My most lasting vision of his tenure will be when I saw him counting multiple hundred dollar bills all by himself after another game in which he didn't even dress for.
Congrats to James and Marc Fleisher for landing this deal and here are a few creative accounting ways in how that $29M played out on the floor, assuming he indeed doesn't return in 09-10:
$2,507,204.61 per hour on the floor
$325,842.70 per game played
$130,044.84 per point scored
$177,914.11 per rebound
$743,589.74 per blocked shot
- Chris Reina is the executive editor of RealGM |
