They are going to destroy his career the same way that the Magic destroyed Tmac's career. They wasted away some of his best basketball years sorrounding him with Juwan Howard and Gordan Giricek. Anytime a player clearly comes on the wining side of a contract like Hughes or Rashard Lewis, the franchise is doomed for years to come. A long term contract can be a blessing like Duncan/Ginobili/Parker or it can be a disaster like Curry/Marbury/Houston It happens both ways though. For every overpaid player there is a underpaid one. Examples Rashard Lewis vs Josh Howard (Josh is the better player and makes half the money) Stephon Marbury vs Hedo Turkoglu Ben Wallace vs Davis West Shaq vs Yao
This reminds me of my old thread where Swopa the Warriors homer tried to argue that Hughes was on the verge of becoming a sharpshooting superstar.linkage
One of the games pbp: Just another case of becoming a 'fat cat' after getting a fat contract. Unfortunately this seems to be the norm now.
Looks like today's game bucked the trend a little bit. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2008021119
owned... hughes scored 40 pts on 12 of 19 shooting, and 12 of 13 from the line. will be interesting to see what they write about tonight's game!