Productive young players on rookie deals are often the biggest bargains in the NBA. This year was no exception. Denver’s Nikola Jokic and Utah’s Rudy Gobert, who are outside the league’s Top 300 salary-wise, were among the NBA’s best players in the 2016-17 regular season any way you look at it. If you take into account Win Shares, which is an estimate of the numbers of wins contributed by a player, they were both in the NBA’s Top 20. Each Jokic Win Share cost a mere $141,510. Rudy Gobert’s? Just $148,341.
Those were the lowest Salary/Win Share ratios in the league this season among players with at least 500 minutes played.
| Salary | Win Shares | Money per Win Share | |
| 1. Nikola Jokic | $1,358,500 | 9.6 | $141,510.41 |
| 2. Rudy Gobert | $2,121,287 | 14.3 | $148,341.75 |
| 3. JaMychal Green | $980,431 | 5.8 | $169,039.83 |
| 4. Yogi Ferrell | $307,000 | 1.8 | $170,555.56 |
| 5. Rodney McGruder | $543,471 | 2.9 | $187,403.79 |
| 6. Malcolm Brogdon | $875,000 | 4.1 | $213,414.63 |
| 7. Clint Capela | $1,296,240 | 6.0 | $216,040.00 |
| 8. TJ McConnell | $874,636 | 3.7 | $236,388.11 |
| 9. Giannis Antetokounmpo | $2,995,420 | 12.4 | $241,566.13 |
| 10. Willie Reed | $874,636 | 3.6 | $242,954.44 |
| 11. Montrezl Harrell | $1,045,000 | 4.1 | $254,878.05 |
| 12. Cristiano Felicio | $874,636 | 3.4 | $257,245.88 |
| 13. Spencer Dinwiddie | $726,672 | 2.8 | $259,525.71 |
| 14. David Lee | $1,551,659 | 5.7 | $272,220.88 |
| 15. Richaun Holmes | $1,024,000 | 3.7 | $276,756.76 |
The numbers above are a far cry from those of players who either bombed, had injury problems or both and couldn’t live up to their contracts.
Chandler Parsons, who signed a $94.8 million contract last summer and played only 34 (largely unproductive) games with the Grizzlies this season, brought possibly the worst bang for the buck with a salary of $22,116,750 and only 0.2 Win Shares.
| Salary | Win Shares | Money per Win Share | |
| Chandler Parsons | $22,116,750 | 0.2 | $110,583,750 |
| Tiago Splitter | $8,250,000 | 0.1 | $82,500,000 |
| Brandon Knight | $12,606,250 | 0.3 | $42,020,833 |
| Kris Dunn | $3,872,520 | 0.1 | $38,725,200 |
| Paul Pierce | $3,527,920 | 0.1 | $35,279,200 |
| Mike Miller | $3,500,000 | 0.1 | $35,000,000 |
| Jose Manuel Calderon | $7,708,427 | 0.3 | $25,694,756 |
| Miles Plumlee | $12,400,000 | 0.5 | $24,800,000 |
| Jeff Green | $15,000,000 | 0.7 | $21,428,571 |
| Udonis Haslem | $4,000,000 | 0.2 | $20,000,000 |
| Luol Deng | $18,000,000 | 0.9 | $20,000,000 |
| Josh McRoberts | $5,782,450 | 0.3 | $19,274,833 |
| Mirza Teletovic | $10,500,000 | 0.6 | $17,500,000 |
| Emmanuel Mudiay | $3,241,800 | 0.2 | $16,209,000 |
| Kyle Singler | $4,837,500 | 0.3 | $16,125,000 |
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