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I just don't think the dollar figure JJ got matters. It's a 1 year deal. They had $37M in guaranteed salary for 12 guys going into the off-season, $54.6M in likely space. Who cares if they gave JJ way more than he earned. Even after giving him $23M they had space for a 30% max if they wanted, like it literally didn't matter.

If the 76ers decided, rightly so, that JJ was better than Korver or Young or Dion or whoever they could have realistically gotten to fill that elite shooting 2 guard role, than it literally didn't matter how much they paid him. The actual contract amount is completely irrelevant. The traditional way of looking at "better" contract value doesn't matter here. There is zero opportunity cost.

More than one way to look at things. Decide which way you are going to look at it and there is your answer confirmed.

If you accept last season's RPM estimate for Redick as accurate, the 76ers paid $21 million to lose a tiny bit of ground. If it were a half point HIGHER it would be a salary to positive RPM point of over $200 million to 1. But it wasn't and the aging curve suggests it will fall further.

"Elite skill" that is not in a package with net positive overall impact or can't be alchemy transformed into it is fool's gold. Impact that is not in a good or great pay to performance ratio package is bronze or silver. Or maybe aluminum or plastic.

I agree that in a vacuum it's a bad contract. Just that the fact it's a bad contract doesn't matter given their cap situation. I think they still like $25M in cap space even after these two big deals.

Total crap-shoot. They could really use a consolidation trade. There are so many guys that play ~20 MPG. So much variance.

http://www.nba.com/sixers/roster/

24 names. Got to get rid of at least 9. Process subtractions due to roster overflow.