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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Best Contracts in the NBA Part 1 + Tuesday Daily Duncs (2/25/25)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We start our Best Contracts in the NBA discussion, as Nate and Dan get into some interesting debates (and even hit on a few that also appeared on the worst contracts list!) Plus, are rookie scale deals in aggregate positive or negative? Full Daily Duncs with links Joel Embiid Joel Embiid Giannis Antetokounmpo Ja Morant Luka Doncic Nico Harrison Dallas Mavericks Luka Doncic trade Hall of Fame Charlotte Hornets Full Daily Duncs with links

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0:00.0

I'll talk some best contracts here.

0:01.8

Let's do it.

0:02.5

So as mentioned, our criteria are no maxes because that is just artificially limited by the

0:09.8

CBA, no rookie scale deals.

0:11.8

That is also artificially limited by the CBA.

0:13.9

We'll talk about maybe veteran deals a little bit, but those are usually too short.

0:19.2

Maybe we'll hit on a few deals towards the end

0:23.0

that are just expiring this year, but we're going to focus mostly on deals that go beyond

0:27.9

this season. All of these numbers for how much these people are making actually include this

0:32.4

year. They are providing production right now. When we did the worst contracts, we actually

0:36.6

did it after this year just because

0:38.7

that we were kind of thinking of them more in terms of their trade value and how underwater they

0:43.7

might be after this season. But for best contracts, like these are players who are providing

0:48.9

value for those numbers right now. So we decided to focus on what's, uh, what is also going on for this year.

0:57.0

So we'll go through some of the candidates. And then we'll each pick our top five words.

1:01.8

You like to begin, Mr. Feldman.

1:03.2

Let's start with the thunder because they just have so many players who are in the discussion.

1:07.6

Yeah. Pretty remarkable. The way that they've done that. And Lou Dort certainly

1:12.6

has to be on this list, making 16-5 this year, 17-2 next year, and then has a team option for 17-2.

1:21.2

In the 26-27 season, he is about to turn 26. You can throw in Isaiah Hartenstein, too. He's 26 years old also next year.

1:31.3

This year making $30 million. Next year, 28 and a half. And then a team option for 28 and a half

1:35.7

just gives whichever team has a bit. And I would like to say, right, we're looking at these not

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