That Rashard Lewis deal ain't looking so great now
Rashard Lewis officially joined the Orlando Magic today, getting a 6-year deal worth over 110 million dollars. The Magic are getting donkey punched all over the internets for making this deal, and I have to admit that I agree.
When the deal first was announced lat week, I was pretty pumped as you can recall. It was all rainbows and fairies and midgets playing with puppies at the time. I was happy that they had landed the top free-agent on the market but I basically ignored the fact that they were going to give him enough money to buy a small European country.
Well, now it hits me in the face as if I was Brett Myers' wife. Rashard Lewis. Max contract. Wow, that sound you just heard was my nutsack shriveling like a prune.
Don't get me wrong. Lewis is a good player and I love the fact that he'll be teaming up with Dwight Howard in a very weak Eastern Conference for the next few years. But hot damn, that's a lot of Benjamins to be throwing to someone that wasn't even considered the best player on his own team.
The Magic will have a lot of money tied up in him and that contract is going to be brutal once he turns 31 and his skills are declining, but hopefully it will have been worth it in the mean time. And by "worth it" I don't mean being a 5th seed and getting a first round play-off butt pillaging.
I hope I'm wrong here but I imagine that we'll be talking about this contract a few years down the road and I'll be bleeding profusely from my eyes.
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Something that bothers me on this too is the opportunity to attract a better player down the track is now virtually nil. In the next few years some really big-time players will 'possibly' become free agents, and with Rashard & Dwight commanding so much of the payroll, no chance.
Bye-bye Darko too?
Bye Bye Darko indeed..
I like Lewis, but I just don't see that the Magic got that much better. The lost Darko and Grant Hill.
So they lose a good player who plays half the season and a decent player who plays half a game, and only pick up one full time good player.
this is a great post - did you rip the entire thing off of the sports guy's chat session? or just a few short paragraphs?
If I would've taken the trouble to rip-off the Sports Guy...wouldn't I have mentioned J-Bug, The Celtics..The Sopranos, Kevin Durant and have made some pop-culture references?
Gerald Wallace got 1/2 the money of Lewis, and could pretty easily put up better numbers. But hey, at least the Magic have Hedo Turkoglu pulling down $6 million next year.
how can you say bill simmons was the first person to declare this a bad contract? I think this is a consensus opinion and the sports guy was just merely agreeing. there's not much you can say about it other than it being a bad idea, and that's what both said.
They could have picked up Chauncey Billups, bought the 110 employee company I work for, and still had 10 million left over.
Anything Simmons has ever written about, regardless of how late he is to the party (YouTube, The Wire, Kevin Durant, ...), is off limits to any other writer in the entire world.
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