News Flash: There Are Overpaid Players In The NBA

Complex Sports has taken the liberty of pointing out that there are, in fact, NBA players who are paid more than they should be. In other news, water has been found to be wet.

Few things in sports fire up fans more than the notion of players receiving more money than they are perceived to deserve, based on their performance, personality, the team’s win-loss record, or what have you.

Complex Sports has listed what it believes to be the most overpaid players in the NBA as of right now.

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With an average salary of $5 million, NBA players have an undeniably good thing going.

Not surprisingly, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers tops the list with his $23.5 million income for 2014-15.

Hard to believe, but there are people who have a problem with a 36-year-old who played six games last season making almost the gross national product of the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu ($38 million in 2013, for the record, according to The World Bank).

Other players currently in the crosshairs at Complex include:

Eric Gordon of the New Orleans Pelicans (nearly $14.9 million to score 7.4 points per game … as a starter playing almost 34 minutes a night).
Amar’e Stoudemire of the New York Knicks ($23.4 million, roughly, the second-highest paid player in the league behind Bryant).
Kendrick Perkins of the Oklahoma City Thunder ($9.4 million, because he apparently knows where Scott Brooks and Sam Presti buried the bodies).
Joe Johnson of the Brooklyn Nets (almost $23.2 million to shoot a lot and otherwise attractively model a Nets uniform).
Andrea Bargnani of the New York Knicks ($11.5 million). Remember that time 10 or so years ago where NBA talent evaluators were going bat-guano crazy in overhyping European players?
JaVale McGee of the Denver Nuggets ($11.25 million, although in fairness, he could probably make this much just showing his “highlights” as a stand-up comedy act).
Kevin Garnett of the Brooklyn Nets ($12 million, which is not a bad gig considering his actual game retired three years ago, even if KG continued to show up).

This is what happens, though, in a league that has a salary cap with more loopholes in it than a wedge of Swiss cheese.

But there is hope—when the NBA’s new television deal kicks in for the 2016-17 season, these guys will likely look like bargain-basement hires.

Complex Sports has taken the liberty of pointing out that there are, in fact, NBA players who are paid more than they should be. In other news, water has been found to be wet.

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