There is a certain amount of luck in building an NBA champion, but the basic formula calls for two key ingredients: strong drafting and smart spending.
Few things can cripple a franchise quicker than overpaying an underperformer. It comes as little surprise that of the 10 players to crack this list, all but three suited up for non-playoff teams last season.
It isn't easy to win with blown money on the books, and these contracts are as bad as they come.
What makes one deal worse than the next? The eye test seems like a strong enough tool to answer that question, but we decided to dig a little deeper into the numbers. When performance doesn't match the price, that's when teams have a financial mess on their hands.
To determine these rankings, we have compared the salaries of the league's highest-paid players against their statistics. Three all-encompassing advanced stats—player efficiency rating, win shares and ESPN.com's real plus-minus—were added together, and that number was divided by a player's 2014-15 on-court earnings.
The end result is what we'll call each player's "salary rating," and these 10 players ha ...
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