Jerome James is a Million-Dollar-a-Minute Man…Drink That In
By Cecilio's Scribe on Feb 17, 2008 with Comments 3
You’d Be Smiling Too, If You Got Paid $6M to Do This
James’ 2008 salary is $5,800,000 according to his profile at ESPN.com. If you delve a bit deeper into that impressive 07-08 resume, you’ll see that our seven-foot proverbial waste of space has logged minutes in two of the Knickerbockers 52 games this season. How many minutes you might ask? A grand total of five. Five freakin’, lousy-ass minutes. Five million eight-hundred thousand dollars.
We are admittedly poor at math. I like to consider myself more of a wordsmith. However, with the help of a handy-dandy calculator, we’ve managed to determine that equates to $1,160,000 per minute that the NY Knicks are paying for the services of one Jerome Keith James. Now, granted, salaries are astronomical across sports…and I remember reading the breakdown on dollars/start for Clemens or at-bat for A-Rod or even pitch for Santana.
But, somehow, the James figures above are just…well, we can’t even comprehend them. Not that we hold anything against James. He stinks. And getting paid to sit around and watch NBA games from a courtside seat for nearly $6M/year ain’t too bad a gig.
It is, though, just one more of the plethora of indications of why the Garden is such a forlorn place these days…Well, let’s look at the bright side, according to the solid folks at Can’t Stop the Bleeding (citing an SI source), at least Isiah’s job is safe. So, we’ve got that going for us…which is nice [metaphorically hurling Knicks fan loyalty out window...]
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Give the guy a break thats prob. only around $2.3 million after taxes/agent fees – a guys gota feed his family
And you can’t teach 7-feet.
As a Seattle resident and lifelong Sonics fan all I can say is “we told you so.”
The happiest day of my life related to the Sonics and free-agent signings was the day the Knicks vastly overpaid JJ after he showed a pulse for the first time ever in the playoffs against Sacramento.
Those injuries are the result of the same trait as his poor play – laziness. If you don’t work out all off-season and your body is a tub of goo, injuries are inevitable.