4. Most Players Are Overpaid, Anyway
Gordon Hayward, Eric Bledsoe, and Chandler Parsons all got max contracts within the past year. Everyone questioned their signings. Klay Thompson received one a few months into the season, which was also questioned.
The bottom line is that most players in the league are overpaid. Its 2015, guys will get paid. Agents have become smarter and if one team doesn’t offer a player a max, another one will. And we know that money speaks in this business.
Going to Detroit would mean that Green would be going home, playing small forward alongside the best young frontcourt in the league, and in the Eastern Conference. Those are all good reasons for him to leave, so the Warriors have to be willing to pay Dray.