Contract Details: Five years, $60 million
Do you care more about the present or the future?
If you worry more about the former, you probably love the Marcin Gortat signing.
After all, the Washington Wizards retained a key contributor for market value, keeping together most of a core that is primed to make a run at one of the top spots in the Eastern Conference. Given his defense and pick-and-roll stylings, Gortat is absolutely worth the $10.4 million he'll make in 2014-15, per ShamSports.com.
If you worry more about the latter, you probably hate this deal.
The Polish big man will turn 31 during the 2014-15 campaign, and centers with this much size don't tend to age well. Signing him to a five-year deal was bad enough, and it's even worse that it's an escalating one, a contract that will pay him $13.6 million in 2018-19.
Yes, 2018-19. When Gortat will be 35.
The center is eventually going to have an albatross contract, and the amount of money he's making, especially when paired with the eventual Bradley Beal extension, will make it awfully difficult to lure a talent like Kevin Durant back to his hometown when that opportunity presents itself.
Let's see if you can tell which time period I'm more concerned with.
