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Why Enes Kanter Is Not Worth as Much as He Thinks He Is
The Utah Jazz reportedly offered Enes Kanter 4 years, $32 million and he turned it down, looking for roughly double. Here's why that's ludicrous.

According to Utah Jazz beat writer Jody Genessy, the Jazz offered win shares per 48 minutes
BPM=box plus/minus
nERD=our in-house metric that estimates how many games above or below .500 a league-average team would finish an 82-game NBA season with the player in question as one of its starters.

That .081 rate of win shares per 48 minutes, for example, ranks him 126th of the 190 players who have registered more than 1,000 minutes this season (22nd among 23 centers). That's right around Henry Sims territory, who is incidentally making $915,243 to play basketball this season (as opposed to the nearly $16 million average annual salary that Kanter's seeking). If you consider the fact that the Jazz have a backup center itching to break out in Rudy Gobert, it becomes increasingly difficult to comprehend why they'd even bother entertaining Kanter's ridiculous demands.

As we draw closer to the trade deadline today at 3:00pm EST, there's a decent chance that Kanter will no longer be with the team by the end of the day, perhaps even by the time you read this. The Jazz may claim to have Kanter in their longterm plans, but if an offer presents itself, you'd have to imagine that they'll probably jump at it just to avoid the potentially arduous contract negotiations this summer and possibly losing him for nothing.

Regardless of where Kanter ends up, though, he'll need a reality check when it comes to evaluating how much he thinks he's worth.

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