Steve Nash Recommends Bill Simmons Rant Criticizing Robert Sarver

Nash wants out, but he doesn't want to get his hands dirty, he wants to be the boy scout. That's how I see it.

 

wait, so people think marion is worth his contract? They talk about Amare being overpaid with bad knees, but that sarver should've paid him?

Most of all, EVERYONE talks about Joe Johnson being overpaid, but they get mad at Sarver for not taking him at that contract? Interestingly enough, The suns matched the offer and were resigning Johnson, but Johson kept insisting he wanted to move on and did not want to be a sun any more and so they made the trade with atlanta bc of that, so he was willing to pay up. Some of these guys have selective memories

 

Dude Sarver singlehandlely broke up a potential championship contender.

 

Johnson was lowballed so badly that he wanted out. The suns traded first round picks for cash when they could have had Rajon Rondo and Rudy Fernandez. Amare is worth his contract notwithstanding his health concerns. Marion certainly did deserve his contract.

There's no case to be made for Sarver except that he wasted several
opportunities for a championship because he wanted to decrease his costs and
make a larger margin. You keep the 04-05 team intact and replace QRich for a similar, lower paid SF, you can keep seriously contending and fill the seats. Instead, they never have as potent a team and are now flirting with mediocrity while Nash wastes away in his twilight. Sarver sucks.

 

The problem with Sarver is not that he's especially cheap-- the Suns team did not have an espcially low payroll during the last 6-7 years. The problem with him is that he wasn't smart about how to be cheap. In particular, it was stupid for him to keep giving away first round picks since rookie contract guys are the underpaid labor under the NBA's salary structure. Sure, not all of them work out, but on balance, it's worth taking on the risk of some of them "busting" since the salary cost is relatively minimal. If he was going to have to give away his expensive vets, the way to keep the talent level high without paying too much salary would be to use draft picks.

Instead, while operating under a budget, he traded away picks but spent big to re-sign Boris Diaw and Leandro Barbosa, decent guys but overpaid. Decent players on non-rookie deals are often the least efficient way to spend your money, especially when you don't have much to spend and one expensive bust could force you to make other budget cutting moves.