Posted by TMS:
i don't care if Allan Houston remained healthy & averaged 23ppg up til now, he's not worth the money he signed for...neither would Ray Allen be worth the money he's asking for either...all these people who cry about scorers that play no defense who sign big contracts & yet some of you have no problem w/signing guys like that to maximum deals...i just don't get that...if i'm going to sign a guy to a max deal, he BETTER be an impact player on BOTH ends of the floor.
No one's disputing that H20 is not a max player. He never was a max player even when he was healthy. But Ray Allen is a much better player that H20 was when he reached FA. Is he max player? He's certainly not a maximum contract length player because he's gonna be 30 next season. But he did carry a team to 52 wins this year and is far from one-dimensional. For 3-4 year deal, this guy is certainly worth the money. But the fact is there are very few players in the NBA that would be worth 15 mil a year past the age of 34...But the system of the "max" salary has made it so that any player who has an argument that they are among the 15-20 best players in the game right now should demand a max deal, because they are almost always gonna get it.
Anyway, I do agree that we should say away from Allen if he's getting more than like 4 years on his deal...