On $3 million guys, I think most are rookie contracts, bigs and PGs. Wings are probably the rarest to get that level money as there are so many semi-decent wings out there looking for work.

Looking at how many guys make $2.5-4 million on the best teams- Boston 5, Clev 4, Dallas 1, Houston 3, Lakers 0, New Orleans 1, Orlando 2, San Antonio 3, Utah 2, Denver 1. The average of these is 2.2 per team. Thunder have 3. But how many in the future? Maybe I made too much of it but it is a choice that was worth looking at and matters some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Q-5oIQ4oQ

i guess you were looking for this second video, which is not complete unfortunately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZCFgtIesI

Better than nothing though for now. It was more of a hassle than i thought it would be so feel free to donate at a-klaas AT upb.de :-)

The Sefolosha contract isn’t a clear good thing or bad thing yet. But $3 million a year wings aren’t that common really and will probably become rarer in this market and the next CBA. Most players who are good will get more. Run of the mill players will get a lot less. Thabo has to fit pretty well to make good sense.

Presti was simply unwilling to let him be the first out the door as he would have surely tried to be next summer for playing time (with Harden coming up) and other things. Would another team offer more than they did right now? I doubt it but that is hard to say right now. Only takes one. The next season does still matter as to who he is, what he can do. Maybe. Without a jump up though he isn’t that special so far with his negative offensive impact bigger than his positive defensive impact on Adjusted not just for a season but for his career to date.

The Thabo deal is less than Presti offer CJ Miles last summer. Both actions suggest to me some concern abut the ability to compete for free agents.

In the end it is really just like paying a fairly high draft pick early on a rookie contract though.

Ultimately he has to fit somewhere. Whether it is with the starters or off the bench. I think it is still more likely the latter.

Of the player pairs that were –10 or worse on raw +/- last season only three remain possible, still have both players here necessary to field them. And guess what? Brooks’ starting lineup has all three of them in it- Durant-Sefolosha, Green-Sefolosha and Durant-Krstic. When Brooks says he doesn’t use +/- much I believe him. But either he’ll be right or wrong to fly in the face of what those pairs did last season. Brooks made this one of the ten most used lineups in the league in game 1. It worked but against a weak opponent. Time will tell if it works better than it did last season.