At least half of their money came from their rookie deals. Both were top 5 picks. Martin wont be a top 5 pick. He probably wont even be a lottery pick so the money upfront wont be as good and teams during his first FA wont be as willing to overpay for a former twenty something pick as they will for a former top 5 pick.

As others have said, his draft stock isnt as high as those two.

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Posted by Tiger in NY

Neptune Beach, FL

Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:53 am to Bert Macklin FBI

Ok, I give you Glen Davis and Brandon Bass

Baby: Career (may be incomplete) $26,538,680

Brandon Bass: Career (may be incomplete) $27,359,850

Anthony Randolph made over $12 million too. Martin will make a team, and be in the league for a number of years. Whether he is "maximizing" on the potential or not is probably irrelevant given this type of money.

This post was edited on 3/30/15 at 11:55 am

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Posted by Woodman

Seattle WA

Member since Aug 2009

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Posted on 3/30/15 at 4:20 pm to Bert Macklin FBI

I've seen his salary projection at between $900,000 and $950,000 per year. Does a player at that level get $2 to 3 million per year from various advertisers? If so, then perhaps not a bad gig. Even after agent and IRS take their cuts, hand a kid a net of $2 million plus for 3 years of work who doesn't spend it stupidly and he'd be nicely set up to go back to school and get a day job thereafter very comfortably situated.

If there is no advertising for being the #9 to 12 player on an NBA team, then the potential decision needs to be weighed on upsides of getting to lottery level vs career ending injury [still being able to net the amount of sports injury insurance recovery one can afford].

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