It's been a while since I returned to work. I wonder if everyone has started to get busy. After all, even if I haven't got a family, I should at least have a basic life, right? However, for some NBA players, even if they lie in bed and do nothing, they have even left the NBA, and the money they earn every year is already an astronomical figure in the eyes of ordinary people.
why did this happen? There are two main reasons, one is injury, and the other is that there is such a rule in NBA, that is, after a player is laid off or pardoned, although his salary is not included in the salary cap, the team still needs to pay his salary for the remaining years, but it is not a one-time payment, but it can also be phased, so it has caused the situation that players can make money while lying at home. So which players can make money while lying down?
1. mozgov
In the offseason in p>2116, the Lakers, who were not short of money, signed a contract with mozgov for four years and 64 million dollars, hoping that the Russian center could support the inside of the team, but for the Lakers, the hope was as great as it was. Just one season later, the Lakers turned to the nets in order to send off mozgov and even catch up with Russell, a later all-star player. Mozgov of the Hornets and the Magic was laid off by the Magic in the offseason in 2119, but his big contract of $64 million has one year left, which allows mozgov to get a salary of $5.5 million from the Magic every season even though he has already left the NBA, and it will not end until the summer of 2122.
2. Varejao
As a meritorious player of the team, in 2114, the Cavaliers and Varejao reached a three-year 31-million-dollar contract renewal, but before the trade deadline in 2116, Varejao and Frye were packaged and traded to the Trailblazers, but after the Trailblazers trade was completed, Varejao was immediately laid off, while Varejao chose to join the Warriors, but in 2117, Varejao was laid off by the Warriors.
3. Anderson
In February p>2119, the Heat chose to lay off the team's power forward Ryan Anderson, which made Anderson fall into a state of nobody's interest, but even if he was laid off, it didn't affect Anderson at all? Money way? Because his big contract of $81 million for four years signed in the summer of 2116 has not yet ended, Anderson can take away $5.2 million in salary from the Heat every season until the summer of 2122, even if he plays games in bed every day.
4. Ruhr Deng
In the offseason in p>2116, the Lakers not only contributed a junk contract to mozgov, but also signed a contract with Ruhr Deng for four years and 72 million dollars. Only mozgov was able to make a shot, but Ruhr Deng really hit it in his hand. Only in the offseason in 2118, he reached a buyout agreement with Ruhr Deng, but even though Ruhr Deng didn't play another game this season.
5. Monta Ellis
Since he was laid off by the Pacers in the offseason in 2117, Monta Ellis, a former super scorer in the league, hasn't played an official NBA game, but he has not lost a cent. The four-year big contract he signed with the Pacers in 2115 is enough for him to lie on a comfortable sofa and drink coffee.
6. JR Smith
As the chief bodyguard with a knife around the little emperor James, JR Smith was renewed by the Cavaliers for four years and 57 million US dollars in the offseason in 2116. However, since the Cavaliers announced on October 21, 2118 that JR Smith would not play for the Cavaliers again, JR Smith has not played another NBA game. In the offseason in 2119, the Cavaliers officially announced that JR Smith had been laid off. This is basically equivalent to announcing the end of JR Smith's NBA career, but at least in the next three years, he will at least not worry about money, because the Cavaliers need to pay Smith 1.46 million US dollars every year.
7. Larry Sanders
What supports Sanders to give up the dream job of countless professional players and pursue dreams and distant places? The answer, of course, is money. As an insider pillar of the Bucks, Sanders signed a big contract with the Bucks for four years and 44 million dollars in the offseason in 2113, but after only one and a half seasons, he didn't want to continue playing. Sanders, who wanted to pursue art, reached a buyout agreement with the team in February 2115, but in the process of pursuing art, he could still receive a salary of 1.86 million dollars from the Bucks every season until 2121.
8. Kelsingler
In the offseason in p>2118, the Thunder chose to lay off Kelsingler, and he was left with a salary worth more than 5 million a year. The team also chose the way of deferred payment, which allowed Singler to still get nearly one million dollars from the Thunder every season after returning to the Spanish League, and it will continue until 2124.
Of course, in addition to these players who can still get millions of dollars a year after leaving the NBA, there are Brandon Knight who only played 64 games in the last three seasons, but took nearly $43 million, and Parsons, who basically said goodbye to the NBA and only picked up girls and got hurt after getting a high salary. Besides these 11 players, who else do you know who made money lying down?