Utah Jazz Receive: F Tobias Harris, 2029 First-Round Pick (PHI)
Philadelphia 76ers Receive: F Bojan Bogdanovic, G Jordan Clarkson
In case you haven’t heard, NBA players get paid. We’re talking about big money.
Some will tell you that they don’t deserve it. We won’t digress too far into that topic, but we firmly disagree.
Those people should look at NBA owners’ salaries before they criticize the players that fans pay to watch.
With that said, some NBA players are overpaid relative to their basketball value. Sometimes, a player has a career year, gets a contract, and never matches that production again.
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Tobias Harris is overpaid. He’s a good, starting-caliber NBA player, but he’s paid like a star. That’s not a secret – it’s a widely understood fact among NBA observers.
Is it worth Utah’s time to take on his salary just to add a first-round pick?