How Did Kenyon Martin Ever Get That Lucrative Contract?

I'll be brief: Jason Kidd.

You could plug in Richard Jefferson in place of Kenyon Martin and the answer would be the same. (Jefferson's crazy contract expired last summer).

Some players make other players very wealthy.

 

Kenyon Martin is such a thug piece of garbage. He'd be gang bangin and murdering if it wasn't for being in the NBA

 

His numbers were not "max salary" worthy numbers, even with Jason Kidd. At least, Jefferson was a 20 pt scorer.

Martin was averaging 16/8, while he was with Kidd. Those are Mo Taylor numbers with slightly better rebounding.

He went over 9 rebounds in a contract year.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/martike01.html


Look at his playoff numbers and add in the fact that he was a very good defender. Now add in the fact that a desperate team had cap space.

 

By thugging and intimidating it out the Denver front office, of course.

 

Didn't a Nuggeta ball boy fill Martins SUV with packing peanuts or something along those lines last year? Would've loved to have been a fly on the wall when he discovered that, LOL

 

I agree that Jkidd made Kmart's career.

Kenyon's money is ridiculous for the numbers he puts up, even without a chronic knee injury.

 

While Jason Kidd was a big part of why Kmart got his fat contract...

Denver was also preparing to make a run and thought they were a piece away from being championship contenders... which they were.. so they overpaid.

Worked out better than Ben Wallace and the Bulls I guess.

 

Rush is that you??

 

How yall gonna call him a thug??...K-Mart made it out of Oak Cliff to the NBA..For most of yall that dont know , thats probably one of the toughest neighborhoods in Texas..Yeah he got tattooes and plays aggressively but he plays like a man who plays hard every second..(maybe not now).... He's no different than any of those 7 footers in the early 2000's that hit the lotto off of dumb azz owner (McIllvane, Bradley, Stewart to name a few...)

 

Never called him a thug, but he's overrated by many. His contract doesn't yield the results it should.

I'm glad he made it out of a tough situation, but I don't know many NBA fans that like him, based on his douchebag behavior on the court.

 

He is one of the best individual post defenders I have ever seen.

Underrated at this point, imo...

 

So you point out he sucks like Shawn Bradley and Michael Stewart and is no different from them. It doesn't explain how he got a lucrative contract. It's a disincentive to pay him that much money. MemphisX seemed to be the closest.

 

my point is the "thug" talk is bullshyt...If you call him a thug because he got paid then call the other clowns thugs...He aint that sorry like Bradley...He used to be one of my favorites his first 3-4 years because I liked how he knocked the hell out of Karl Malone ...

 

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There's a difference between the Amare, Boozer and David West types that can flat-out out PLAY no matter who their PG is yet have been labeled as incapable of doing so in the past.

Kenyon Martin doesn't belong in that group for a reason.

 

No longer. Now he's just decent... Scola lights him up.

 

he's better than Kwame for being first pick overall.

 

His knee injuries took a lot of his explosiveness away. He was pretty beast in New Jersey.

 

It was a combination of things. For one, in his first few years in the league, he was an elite athlete. As a previous poster mentioned, he also played on good teams that had pieces around him to make him look good. Third, he happened to play in window of time where huge deals were getting thrown around left and right. Every team, it seemed, had a max player.