Well just AS a stopped clock is right twice a day sometimes trolls bring up pertinent points .
Like Zack said he is high in price because he came to us as the #1 pick in the last year of the old CBA and that we basically are stuck with his contract regardless whether the marginal utility derived from his play can be justified.
I do believe that there is a day coming when the pay rate and production WILL have to be commensurate or, we will have to move on or, he will have to take a pay cut.
Ah, the diseases of adaptation, they do suck but as the poster implies, it's a capped league and salary caps see some become unaffordable and salary minimums weed the least talented out of the labor pool and sadly graduated salary minimums sometimes weed talented players out before they aught to.