Due to the salary cap boom this past summer, players that make over $60 million could get hurt, become sidelined for a fairly significant amount of time and their respective teams might not even miss a beat.
Ian Mahinmi – a relatively unknown big man who’s been a backup center for the majority of his NBA career – was the Washington Wizards‘ top get in the off-season. He was supposed to help the Wizards regain their defensive identity, but now he’s out four to six weeks following knee surgery.
Normally, people would panic if a player who makes that much money gets hurt, but that’s become the standard pay rate for guys who aren’t completely awful at the job they’re paid to do.