After Andre Iguodala agreed to an $80 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers last week, I figured it was time to start plugging former UA players’ salaries into a spreadsheet.
The kind of spreadsheet that UA might want to pass out to the recruiting targets it is chasing this summer and fall.
The Wildcats will have eight players making an average of about $8.5 million this season in the NBA: Mike Bibby ($15.5M), Jason Terry ($9.08), Richard Jefferson ($13.2), Gilbert Arenas ($14.5), Iguodala (not specified but probably around $9-10M for the first year of his deal), Luke Walton ($4.4) Channing Frye ($3.1, on the last season of rookie scale club option), Jerryd Bayless ($2.0, rookie scale).
That doesn’t count Damon or Salim Stoudamire, who are both still shopping around for new deals this summer. Nor does it count Hassan Adams, who is believed to have been signed for minimum deal of about $400,000 by the Raptors, according to the Toronto Star.
Five of the UA players have multiyear deals in excess of $57 million, too, a total of $406 million dollars that are locked up. Gilbert Arenas led the pack with his $111 million, six-year deal (and he could have gotten even more from the Wizards). Mike Bibby is in the last year of his $80 million, seven-year deal ; Igoudala will get his $80 million over six years ; Richard Jefferson is halfway through a $78 million, six-year deal; and Jason Terry has four more years to polish off a $57 million, six-year deal (and, as Lute Olson likes to remind future an current players alike, he didn’t even start at UA until he was a senior).
Then there’s Walton, who picked up a “mere” $30 million over six years last summer from the Lakers (and he seems pretty happy about it).
Most of the salary numbers are courtesy Hoopshype.com.
