This quick offering is for those readers out there who just can't seem to move on today, to fully comprehend, the news this morning of the Los Angeles Lakers reportedly preparing to commit $64 million to Timofey Mozgov.
If you understand it, get it, and have moved on, that's cool. But, sorry, we're stuck on this one. It's been a few hours now, and we can't stop thinking: 64, as in six and then a four after it, not six POINT four? … But, seven points and five rebounds a game, a lot of those in garbage time … he's almost 30, do they know that?
See: stuck. Stuck in the mud of the first few hours of NBA free agency madness.
But maybe rolling a few reflections out to our fellow dumbfounded friends on the internet will help...
Sixty. Four. Million. Dollars.
At the peak of our stuck'ness, we decided to look up old salaries, basically in an attempt to feel even more ridiculously confused by this $64 million number. It worked.
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas have been retired for a generation, but they didn't play in the prehistoric (pre-Marv Albert) age. Multimillion-dollar contracts were common in their day.
It was painful to add up the career earnings for those three era-defining Hall of Famers: About $60 million, total.
