God, these disputes are insufferable.

Vince Carter- $17.5 million
Richard Hamilton- $12.5 million
Rashard Lewis- $19.6 million (YIKES)
Baron Davis- $13 million
MIchael Redd- $18.3 million
Hedo Turkoglu- $10.2 million
Andris Biedrins- $9 million (WOW)
Yao Ming- $17.7 million

These owners are morons for giving away ridiculous amounts of money to players who are totally undeserving of such money. The players do have to give some back, but is it their fault for being able to sucker so many GM’s into max deals? It’s why Otis Smith is in a bind for taking on gigantic contracts like Turkoglu, Arenas and Rashard Lewis. He has barely any wiggle room to try and dump them for some decent players to put around Howard. As long as the David Kahn’s of the world exist in the NBA, there’ll always be some moronic owner who’ll overpay someone like Baron Davis or Vince Carter. The NBA needs to install some sort of revenue sharing system to help out smaller markets, they need a harder cap, and shorter guaranteed contracts. There’s been a ton of interest in the league the past 2-3 years, and it’d be a shame to kill that momentum because certain players are erroneously overpaid by retarded managers/owners.