C-Webb: C=con

“You have to love a league in which somebody making $20 million a year can stink to the degree that his team asks him, "Hey, what if we paid you 95 percent of your salary money to play somewhere else, is that something you'd be interested in?" ... and then that same player goes to a contender and miraculously becomes good again. Watching C-Webb in Detroit has been like watching the last scene in "The Usual Suspects" for three straight months; all that was missing was Billy King dropping a coffee mug in slow motion,” says the Sports Guy.

 

I really can’t believe more hasn’t been made out of this in Philadelphia or nationally. Such is the state of the NBA where guys get $30 million from teams just to go away so the team can eventually get out of salary cap hell. It’s definitely the dark side of guaranteed contracts. Contrast that with the NFL where LaVar Arrington returned millions of his signing bonus (i.e., the “guaranteed” part of his contract) so the Redskins would release him and he could sign with another team (the Giants, for less than what he would have made in DC.) Note also Skins safety Adam Archuleta considered a similar giveback to Dannyboy Snider to get out of his contract.