Serge Ibaka is a huge part of what the Oklahoma City Thunder are doing. He's not that big a part of what Team Spain is doing. But still, he's 1st team All-NBA Defense, an impact starter, silver medalist, and near All Star. (Really, the Thunder are one Chinese player on the roster away from making Serge Ibaka an All-Star) Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo!Sports dropped this info late last night:
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka has reached agreement on a four-year contract extension, league sources tell Y! Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) August 18, 2012
Serge Ibaka deal is 4 years, $48 million, league source tells Y! Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) August 18, 2012
For those keeping tabs at home . . . that means he's getting $12 million per year. Why am I even bringing ANY of this up? Because we're trying to figure out the market value for our own Paul Millsap, and we're doing this with TABLES!
Wooo! money!!
| Player | Team | Total Salary | Years | Yearly Salary |
| Brook Lopez | BKN | $61,000,000 | 4 | $15,250,000 |
| Roy Hibbert | IND | $58,265,563 | 4 | $14,566,391 |
| Kevin Garnett | BOS | $36,010,000 | 3 | $12,003,333 |
| Serge Ibaka | OKC | $48,000,000 | 4 | $12,000,000 |
| Kris Humphries | BKN | $24,000,000 | 2 | $12,000,000 |
| Nicolas Batum | POR | $45,000,000 | 4 | $11,250,000 |
| JaVale McGee | DEN | $44,000,000 | 4 | $11,000,000 |
| Tim Duncan | SAS | $30,000,000 | 3 | $10,000,000 |
| Gerald Wallace | BKN | $40,000,000 | 4 | $10,000,000 |
| Andrei Kirilenko | MIN | $19,998,769 | 2 | $9,999,385 |
| Ryan Anderson | NOR | $34,000,000 | 4 | $8,500,000 |
| Omer Asik | HOU | $25,123,938 | 3 | $8,374,646 |
| Millsap Extension | UTA | $25,000,000 | 3 | $8,333,333 |
| Ersan Ilyasova | MIL | $40,000,000 | 5 | $8,000,000 |
| Chris Kaman | DAL | $8,000,000 | 1 | $8,000,000 |
| Spencer Hawes | PHI | $13,000,000 | 2 | $6,500,000 |
| Brandon Bass | BOS | $19,350,000 | 3 | $6,450,000 |
| Michael Beasley | PHX | $18,000,000 | 3 | $6,000,000 |
| Robin Lopez | NOR | $15,359,283 | 3 | $5,119,761 |
| Boris Diaw | SAS | $9,190,000 | 2 | $4,595,000 |
| Luis Scola | PHX | $13,500,000 | 3 | $4,500,000 |
| Marcus Camby | NYK | $13,151,319 | 3 | $4,383,773 |
| Marreese Speights | MEM | $8,715,000 | 2 | $4,357,500 |
| Ian Mahinmi | IND | $16,000,000 | 4 | $4,000,000 |
| Carl Landry | GSW | $8,000,000 | 2 | $4,000,000 |
The extension that was reported to be turned down by Paul Millsap would net him the type of money that would mean he's either taking a huge pay cut, or from Turkey (where Asik and Ilyasova are from). Sap is clearly capable of making more money, even in an off-season where he comes off the bench and doesn't average a lot of minutes. NBA office will see that it's his role, not the quality of the player that has diminished. Other places can offer him a chance to start. Moving forward we cannot. No whiny YouTube video a la "Leave the Jazz front office aallooonnneee" is going to change that fact.
As an aside, I really thought we had a lock out because GMs were giving people dumb contracts. Brook Lopez making $15m is a sin. And our society deserves a retributive act of God because of that sin.
Swooping in to slam back my missed shot is PJN:
— Peter Novak (@Peter_J_Novak) August 18, 2012
@allthatamar nice chart, that Scola number is misleading tho since he is getting paid the rest of his salary (3yrs $17m) by Houston
Thanks Peter, you are becoming an increasingly invaluable help to me!