7 NBA Players Who Fell Off After A "Contract Year"

Have you ever heard of the

contract

year

phenomenon? Basically, when an athlete has an expiring

contract

, they would have an extraordinary season much better than any season they have had in the past, thus earning a huge payday, but then right after signing that contract, their game. would go back to normal, sometimes it would drop even further, many

players

lose that hunger after receiving a huge payday, but sometimes it just happens naturally or due to other factors outside of their control, this happens in all sports, but today we're going to take a look at nba

players

seven nba players specifically players from more recent

year

s who

fell

out after signing a huge contract how are you doing guys my name is andy and let's get started number seven , friend cured in the 2018-19 season, friend cured, had one of the best shooting seasons. of all-time was almost Stephen Curry-esque in terms of volume and efficiency, he was taking eight 3-pointers a game and making 43 percent of them, it was a career-high in scoring, and it beat any previous season he's had before, but he was also relatively young. so the Kings rewarded him with a four-year contract worth $94 million.

However, a few months later, things began to fall apart very quickly in December. Held accused the Kings of not trusting him more after he was repeatedly benched late in the game that season. He even lost his starting spot to bogdan bogdanovic, although he would eventually return to the starting lineup unfortunately, although he was expected to continue this incredible trajectory he once had, it didn't happen to this day, he has yet to match that level of production with the time, his role has changed. and he is no longer the focal point. He once renounced his duties with Dieren Fox.

The good thing is that the kings have done better overall as a team, so maybe it was a good thing that number six, nick batum, the summer of 2016 was known for a huge amount of ridiculous contracts being awarded, some They would say unreasonable, but the problem with Batum was that he was a solid player and had possibly his best season, but in Charlotte no one had any doubts about whether he could perform or not. The question was why Charlotte gave it to him. superstar money, he signed a five-year contract for 120 million dollars for a role player with an average of 15 6 and 6. that was unheard of back then, at that time he was also only 27 years old and expected to continue improving, without However, Batum constantly stagnating and regressing throughout his years in Charlotte was a horrendous contract, even if he didn't have a breakout year, it was still a huge overpayment.

I mean, after his 2016 season, he deserved a good contract, but not that good, at least it was better than Joe Kim Noah's contract. because noah got paid an absurd amount of money without even having a breakout year, he was already on the decline number 5, evan turner, another player from the 2016 offseason, but turner's situation was a little different now, before he joined to the Celtics, Turner was seen as one. One of those guys who put empty statistics on a bad team, he was the face of the Sixers during their worst years, deliberately sinking and sinking to the bottom of the standings.

Turner was drafted in a horrible situation from the start and didn't make it. I don't have much to work with because his team was set up to fail, you can't do much when your team is trying to lose. In fact, in the past there were countless articles making fun of him because he was very bad at tanking and people made fun of him. on him for trying to win, fans would sometimes boo him after making a shot, that's crazy, looking back I can't believe that actually happened, so why did I mention this? It's to give you some context, basically, for early Turner. seasons was a gamble, it wasn't until he got to Boston where people started thinking, wow, this guy can really play.

It was the first time in his NBA career that he played significant minutes on a winning team, too, along with Isaiah Thomas. They were huge pieces to the Celtics turnaround, as they were supposed to be terrible after trading piercing and kg, but Turner was instrumental in keeping them afloat. His 2015-16 season was phenomenal, especially for a guy who came off the bench playing limited minutes while statistically his raw stats weren't very good, it was the most productive year of his career nationwide, the blazers, surprised by his new potential, they really wanted him over the summer, they agreed to a four-year contract for 70 million dollars and yes, it was clear from the beginning that he did not live up to the same energy and motivation that he had in boston he just wasn't there in portland he didn't look the same he didn't feel the same number 4 aaron gordon look at this in 2017-18 In the season, Gordon put up these numbers year after year, he made huge leaps and he was only 22 years old, so it's reasonable to assume that he would continue to improve, you'd think so, not necessarily in the 2018 offseason, magic re-signed him. to a four-year, $80 million extension at the time was a huge contract as Gordon was projected to be a star very soon, unfortunately since then he hasn't matched the same level of production that seemed to make him a superstar in the process.

It was in the opposite direction year after year Gordon's numbers

fell

and on the court he seemed less and less interested the annoying thing is that he is not even a bad player, he is still very good, we see from time to time he had a crazy game that makes us ask ourselves why he can't do that every night why he can't be a 25 point per game scorer athletically physically with a versatile offensive arsenal he has the tools to do it defensively he holds his own and maybe he doesn't get enough credit in that regard, Although there are dung contests on all-star weekends, that's the only time we hear about it, as any other time of the season it's not bad enough to call it, but it's not good. enough for people to care gordon went from being one of the brightest young stars in the league to an average player after signing that number 3 contract gary harris i was thinking about whether or not to put harris on this list because i know He's suffered his fair share of injuries over the years, has been healthy for a while, and still hasn't lived up to what we expected in the 2016-17 season.

Harris had a great year, he went from being an average guard to a very good guard, one of the few. of players in the league averaged over 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from three, plus he suffocated opponents on defense being the guy called upon to defend the opposing team's best perimeter threat after he signed a four-year contract. years for 84 million. Harris continued playing. Good for a while, but starting in 2018, he slowly declined, going from an elite shooter to an average one at best, even when the organization had his back and encouraged him to keep trying, the Nuggets gave realized that they couldn't keep him. much longer, especially after such a terrible playoff performance in 2020, at one point harris murray and jokic were considered the future cornerstones of the franchise and although two of them became that harris would be left behind if there were continued playing like he did in 2017, maybe he would still be here, number 2.

Marcus Morris Morris is a seasoned veteran throughout his NBA career. He's been more or less a role player, a guy who starts or comes off the bench and does what the coaches ask of him, but in half a season in New York. At the age of 30, Morris had a great year before being traded to the Clippers. Morris led the team in scoring with a career-high 19.6 points per game. Before that, he was never even close to being a 20-point-per-game scorer, but all of a sudden, that season was his best ever. ever had, even in terms of efficiency, and it was clear that he was looking for one last payday and he got it.

The Clippers agreed to a four-year contract worth $64 million, a lot of money. For a guy like him, of course, no one expected him to continue scoring 20 points per game on a team with Kawhi and Paul George, but statistically his numbers have decreased due to a decline limited to the usual 13 or 14 points per game that he has always accomplished. He had conceded that his shooting is still very good, although it's just the concept of Morris earning a big payday for leading the Knicks. I don't know why that's funny to me, just a random role player leading the team in scoring and winning so much. money, it's safe to say that if he hadn't had that season with the Knicks, he'd probably be at the bottom or pretty close to it, maybe a mid-level exception, honestly, but hey, congratulations to number one Chandler Parsons, ah, Yes, I do.

I don't think this needs much of an explanation, but I'll set the stage anyway Chandler Parsons on the Rockets was a young star on the rise, a do-it-all forward, the type of player every team wants, maybe too much, the first contract important thing he signed was In Dallas, after a great year in Houston, Mark Cuban took a chance on him and got him for a good deal, although Dirk would tell you otherwise, apparently some of his money went to Parsons, so forced him to pay for dinner on the road every day. Anyway, once this contract was good 3 years 46 million for a budding star like Parsons, that's reasonable.

However, he opted out after two years and it was this contract offered by Memphis that was truly questionable for 94 million years for Parsons who was also struggling with knee problems, some even accused him of hiding the severity of his injury. in Dallas and continue playing only because he knew he was going to opt out in search of a much bigger deal. In retrospect, this is bad if he was really playing. and hiding it from the team, the problem was that if Parsons was simply injured and couldn't play, that's fine, but there were questions about Parsons' commitment to basketball in general.

There was a joke that Parsons averaged more Instagram posts per season than games played. per season, unfortunately, did not improve for him in early 2020, he was hit by a drunk driver and suffered injuries that could end his NBA career. It was horrible and yet idiots kept criticizing him saying he deserved it for seriously stealing from the Grizzlies. no one should wish something like that on a person yes, he didn't fulfill the contract but the grizzlies were the ones who offered it to him I don't blame him for securing the bag while he can anyway those were 7 nba players who fell shortly after a contract season.

Can you think of other players in recent history who fall into this category? Let me know in the comments. I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you very much for watching and of course, as always, I will. until the next peace