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[Strenuus]

Well, that all depends on how you define the 8th best player in the league. Do you use one of the many advanced stats like PER, PIE, eff or Simple Rating? Or, do you wait until the season is over and see who comes in 8th in MVP voting?

Just for grins:

Current Season:

PER: Steph Curry - $9,887,642

PIE: Dirk Nowitski - $22,721,381

Simple Rating: Chris Paul - $18,668,431

eff: Carmelo Anthony - $22,407,474

And, let's throw in the guy who came in 8th in last year's MVP voting:

James Harden - $13,701,250

That comes out to an average of: $17,477,235.60.

That list includes two players (Curry and Harden) in the first year of their post-rookie contract extensions, and three players who are at the tail end of very lucrative contracts that were signed before the current CBA went into affect.

In any case, I'd say being the 8th best player in the NBA is good work if you can get it, and if Wes keeps playing at his current level for another season and three quarters, he may be in for a very big pay raise come July, 2015.

I also found it interesting that most of these guys are all over the place, depending on what stat you use. CP3 is ranked 4th or 5th by most, and was 4th in MVP voting last year, but has only the 8th best Simple Rating. Melo is ranked 8th best by eff, but between 16th and 21st by the other advanced stats. However, Steph Curry is rated the most consistently by the advanced stats, between 7th and 9th in all cases. So, he's the closest we have to a conensus 8th best player in the league right now.

BNM

Good read! Thanks for diggin all that up.

I guess being 8th isn't too bad... however, that'd be a hell of a list for Matthews to be on. lol.

 

[ponderguy]

How do you knw this? He never plays.

There's a reason for that-he's not that good, at least not yet. He has some potential but he has to learn how to shoot