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Yeah I don't think Mills comes in and cracks the 9 man rotation. I'm not sure how much he actually has left in the tank. May just be a locker room vet voice if we do end up keeping him.

https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-most-underpaid-players-history-lebron-giannis-luka/ Don't think this is quite the research article you were talking about. But Trae does make the list here as #8 underpaid all time. Seasons overpaid vs. underpaid: 0-4 Real Value: $102,941,899 Career earnings: $26,534,551 Difference: $76,407,348 (287.95 percent) Similar to Doncic, Trae Young has been an All-Star, borderline All-NBA-level guy from his second season on, which, unfortunately for him was during his time on a rookie-scale contract. Young was most underpaid in 2020-21 when he put up 25.3 points and 9.4 assists while making $6.6 million, $24.4 million less than the $31.0 million Real Value believes he was worth that season. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Hawks were able to reach the Eastern Conference Finals that year, with Young on such a value contract. Also KAT makes the list at #25. Siakam doesn't make the cut. Seasons overpaid vs. underpaid: 3-4 Real Value: $156,743,801 Career earnings: $114,123,435 Difference: $42,620,366 (37.35 percent) One of the best floor-spacing, high-level scoring big men of his era, Karl-Anthony Towns was excellent right away as an NBA player, greatly outplaying his contract right off the bat. In 2016-17, Towns’ second season in the league, the Kentucky Wildcat averaged 25.1 points and 12.3 rebounds while shooting 54.2 percent from the floor. He made $6.0 million that season while his Real Value was $24.1 million, closer to a max contract at the time and a difference of $18.1 million.

KAT to the Hawks is better than Siakam to the Hawks. Don't come to me about money, it isn't coming out of either of our accounts, and that's for Landry to figure out. KAT is the needle mover, Siakam is a treadmill player

We've lost our minds. This tradewatch madness has infected us all. I almost gave grumpycat my avatar for the whole year.

Guys, come on, get with the program. The sports leagues do not keep up with every other aspect of our economy. The players and owners get more money when the leagues have larger profits. The percentages all generally stay the same. This isn't going to cripple Boston. Let's not overreact.

Do you see what they want to do to me Landry??? Make the call

End of the Hawks season?

Just an avatar bet. Not the end of the world.

I'll say KAT will be a Hawk by the start of the season.

I'm just here for fun. But I'm assuming he had a specific deadline in place.

I'll take that bet and wager my avatar. KAT will he a Hawk.

Dude is going to end up being the next Isiah Thomas and Dennis Schröder. No supermax contract, lower value due to lower stats this season, and no contract leverage. Sometimes we have to be able to read the room and his agents get paid to do it.

That is the perfect reason why I want KAT. He's not built to carry a team as a #1, but he can push us over the top as a #2 or #3.

"Our insiders"????

Even if this is a smokescreen, I'm done with the Raptors and Pascal. Canada can keep their Michael Jordan and pay him the supermax. Let's move on to whatever other 3rd superstar we can get.

I mean we're kinda past that stage of embarrassment. We tried to get KD and the Nets used us to get a better deal from Phoenix. (At least that's how I will always remember it) We kept JC way too long, hoping he would improve and we could get better assets and had to trade him for peanuts. We're still coming out of this looking better than the Knicks who always get used for better trades. That's all that counts.

He better pay attention to the JC situation. He's walking himself into a horrible deal when he's had fair-value offers already.

That super-max contract would make me stay in Antarctica if I had to.

So we have a group of 3 individual posters who got together to make up "insider information," come to the board with it, know they are lying about sources, and luck into talking about multiple scenarios that would go on to happen before it's reported nationally. And you are complaining about the free entertainment?

No, let's not do that. Disagreements should never end in a ban unless one side goes too far with personal shots. This is a message board and we are all discussing. Banning posters for disagreeing seems, extreme.

Both names have been mentioned by all three insiders for a while now. They all have mentioned that Siakam is the top target, but the FO would be absolutely stupid not to have a backup plan, which is KAT. These guys are not journalist who's reputation hinges on them being right and breaking scoops before anyone else. These are guys who just so happen to have sources within the team and around the league. Give it a rest on them being right 100% of the time on who, what, when, where, and how.