In 2015-16 Kobe had the highest salary in the league at $25 million.
He put up 17.5/4/3 with the 4th highest usage rate that year playing around 28 MPG. Shooting splits of 36/28/83 for the 7th lowest TS% in the league. Meanwhile, the lakers finished bottom of the West with a 17-65 record.
Looking at advanced metrics: 2nd worst plus minus per game, 4th worst defensive box plus minus, 7th lowest win shares and 2nd lowest WS/48 (both negative) and all of which are the worst among Lakers players that year.
I understand he was injured and it was a farewell tour but purely from a production relative to salary perspective is this the worst season by a player ever or would it still be better than e.g a star being injured all year or refusing to play but making the max.
Wonder how retired players feel like are they happy for the next generation or do people like Scottie end up bitter that they made less than league minimum
Scottie probably bought his mansion for $250,000 so you know
Scottie was bitter about the money he made while he was still playing. He signed some ungodly 8 or 10 year contract and by year 4 or 5 he was already extremely underpaid. It became a big point of contention after Michael left.
All of those details were from memory so I might not be exactly correct but that’s the gist.
Probably all bitter, plus they all seem think they are better basketball players overall. This makes me appreciate Charles Barkley even more - im paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of : we’re getting paid to play basketball, that’s easy. There’s plenty of other jobs that are much harder and get paid almost nothing, and all these players are complaining