Jerome James is making more than $1 million per minute he has played this season
http://www.legendofcecilioguante.com/2008/02/jerome-james-is-million-dollar-minute.html

Jerome James is making more than a million bucks/minute this season. Don't ask us why we chose today to wallow in this miserable realization, just think about it. In all honesty, we were pondering compiling a definitive list of all those around the league collecting obscene paychecks for showing up in a suit and sitting on the bench. Being a Knicks fan, Jerome was the first one that came to mind...and we simply couldn't get beyond the numbers.

James' 2008 salary is $5,800,000 according to his profile at ESPN.com. If you delve a bit deeper into that impressive 07-08 resume, you'll see that our seven-foot proverbial waste of space has logged minutes in two of the Knickerbockers 52 games this season. How many minutes you might ask? A grand total of five. Five freakin', lousy-ass minutes. Five million eight-hundred thousand dollars.

We are admittedly poor at math. I like to consider myself more of a wordsmith. However, with the help of a handy-dandy calculator, we've managed to determine that equates to $1,160,000 per minute that the NY Knicks are paying for the services of one Jerome Keith James. Now, granted, salaries are astronomical across sports...and I remember reading the breakdown on dollars/start for Clemens or at-bat for A-Rod or even pitch for Santana.

But, somehow, the James figures above are just...well, we can't even comprehend them. Not that we hold anything against James. He stinks. And getting paid to sit around and watch NBA games from a courtside seat for nearly $6M/year ain't too bad a gig.

It is, though, just one more of the plethora of indications of why the Garden is such a forlorn place these days...Well, let's look at the bright side, according to the solid folks at Can't Stop the Bleeding (citing an SI source), at least Isiah's job is safe. So, we've got that going for us...which is nice [metaphorically hurling Knicks fan loyalty out window...]

$1,160,000 per minute that the NY Knicks are paying for the services of one Jerome Keith James

that's the going rate biotches. live with it.

Awesome stat!