Tyler Johnson has not been very good lately. That’s about as charitable a sentence as I can come up with to describe his quality both in the bubble and in the games preceding the bubble when he was still on the Suns. The Nets only acquired him because they needed bodies to fill out their depleted roster. Without that extenuating circumstance, Johnson would probably be chilling out at home right now, watching the NBA on TV while wondering when he would next be able to get a haircut. And nobody would be calling him things like “trash can” and “bumlord”.
The most mind-blowing this is that the Suns are paying him nineteen million dollars this season! The mismatch between the amount of production you get out of Johnson and the size of his contract is definitely one of the biggest in recent memory. It definitely rivals the heinous amount of money that Nic Batum received from the Hornets this season. I’m not in the business for ragging on players who are overpaid (that’s usually the fault of the team that offered the contract), but, man. Think about the size of his biweekly paycheck. From a team that he doesn’t even play for.
Maybe this game turns Johnson’s fortunes around. Or maybe they were already turned around? He’s the one who gets to be safe from COVID-19 in the secure NBA bubble. He’s the one who gets to eat fancy room service for every meal. He’s the one who gets to play low-pressure basketball for a team that’s destined to get pulverized in the ‘yoffs. And those big ol’ checks from Phoenix keep showing up in his bank account. Yep, life’s pretty good for my man Tyler Johnson.
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