As NBA salaries have skyrocketed, you’ll sometimes hear retired players like Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller half-jokingly say they wish they’d been born 20 years later, in order to cash in on the fabulous current market. On TNT’s studio show, a grinning Barkley occasionally vows that if he were playing in the league today, his contract would be so extravagant that he “would show up to games in a spaceship.”
While E’Twaun Moore has always seemed content with how he’s compensated by the New Orleans Pelicans, he does sometimes wonder if his NBA draft stock might be significantly higher in 2019 than it was in 2011, when Boston picked him 55th overall.