When you have multiple top-50 players on your roster and you still haven’t inked the first extension of your best player’s career, it pays to have value contracts on the books.
And in the eyes of Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes, the Boston Celtics happen to have two such players.
The better-paid of the Celtics bargain duo is among the best values in the league, which would be the veteran defensive menace that is guard Marcus Smart, seen as the NBA’s third-best value contract, trailing only Duncan Robinson of the Miami Heat and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.
The other would be German big man Daniel Theis, who is rated the eighth-best value in the league.
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Smart is earning a mere $12.9 million in 2020-21 while putting up 12.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, and Theis only $5 million (assuming the team picks up his final season at that rate, a virtual certainty) while recording 9.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per contest.
After Smart’s third-place finish followed the Indiana Pacers’ T.J. Warren, Ivica Zubac of the Los Angeles Clippers, the Houston Rockets’ P.J. Tucker and the Brooklyn Nets’ Spencer Dinwiddie.
