NBA: LeBron, Antetokounmpo and Doncic the most underpaid players? The algorithm says so

Did you know that LeBron James despite the huge amount of dollars accumulated in his career can be considered an “underpaid” of the NBA? And that instead Klay Thompson, the one who together with Stephen Curry forms the pair of “splash brothers” of the Golden State Warriors, the team that since 2015 has won 4 titles (of the 7 total in its history) and played in 2 other finals, is one that he should have received less money than he earned? For the record Klay is placed in seventh place of those exaggeratedly paid and it is striking. The HoopsHype site tells us all this, which took the trouble to unleash its “Real Value” algorithm to draw up – from 1990 to today – a positive and a negative ranking. The basis criterion is the real impact of these players on the field: career earnings were then adjusted for inflation.

In reality, there is another point of reference: the salary cap, i.e. the maximum salary cap that is applied to each deductible according to a series of parameters. The salary cap gives and takes away, but in this case it perhaps has a more significant value in terms of underpaid: if you are very good and you should receive one figure, but in reality you earn another because the club has higher constraints than others , here you suffer an injustice that moreover clashes with the opposite scenario, or rather that of those who take advantage of certain contingencies to become Scrooge McDuck in a way that is not completely deserved. Beyond everything, it’s a bit of a game, but scrolling through the list – 30 on one side and 30 on the other – we can say that we are in the presence of a fairly acceptable picture. We therefore offer you the first 3 of each of the two rankings, in a sort of historical podium of the last thirty years.