SPAM - Spending Paul Allen's money

by TP43 on Apr 9, 2008 6:06 PM PDT

I don't know if this is diary worthy but it shocked me when I looked this stuff up (I know, not enough to do). There are lots of good articles lately about wages of wins and wins per dollar spent (one from Ian Thomsen at SI) and it got me to thinking about how the PTB spent money in past years, specifically on Dr. Darius. Now that it looks like Mr. Miles is done in a Blazer uniform, what did Mr. Allen get for his money?

Darius signed his 6 year $48 million contract on 9-1-04. He played in 103 games after that for a total of 2985 minutes and we won 34 of the games he played.

That breaks down to $466K per game played, $16K per minute, and a whopping $1.4 million per win. Obviously he isn't solely responsible for wins and losses, but he was supposed to be one of our "cornerstones" at the time. At the end of the day it's pretty sad for both the player and the team. I love our owner but he's had some rotten luck or bad advice... probably a fair amount of both.

Can you think of another player who delivered less for the money?

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................... I thought it was SPAM.

"You don't live by the jumpshot, you die by the jumpshot." ---Charles Barkley, 2/7/08

by timbo on Apr 9, 2008 6:31 PM PDT reply actions

Dang!

I racked my brains trying to remember that acronym, I wonder if I can edit this diary...

"I'm a buffet of goodness."

by TP43 on Apr 10, 2008 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Add Luxury Tax, subtract Insurance Money...

........................................................ and don't blame Dr. Darius for blowing a knee or the rest of the Blazers for sucking mightily.

"You don't live by the jumpshot, you die by the jumpshot." ---Charles Barkley, 2/7/08

by timbo on Apr 9, 2008 6:32 PM PDT reply actions

Sorry, should have been clearer.

I think it's sad Darius blew his knee and I don't blame him at all - just a really bad break. It's no different than Grant Hill while he was in Orlando, sad for the player's career and big bucks paid by the team for very little return.

It sucks PA didn't get much for that contract but you make a great point, thank heavens for that insurance policy.

Love him or hate him, a healthy Darius arguably produced more on the court than any SF we've got now. We do back flips when Martell, JJones, or TO hit for 20 or more and a handful of rebounds but Darius did that fairly regularly. Can you imagine any of our current guys going for 47pts/12rebs/5blks/4stls?!

On balance I'm happy with our guys and they're only going to get better but you've got to admit, a healthy and motivated DMiles was a freak of nature.

"I'm a buffet of goodness."

by TP43 on Apr 10, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions