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Centers with worse contracts than Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond

By Ryan Love

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK- APRIL 5: Andre Drummond #0 of the Detroit Pistons and Steven Adams #12 of the Oklahoma City Thunder reach for the rebound during the game on April 5, 2019 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images)
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK- APRIL 5: Andre Drummond #0 of the Detroit Pistons and Steven Adams #12 of the Oklahoma City Thunder reach for the rebound during the game on April 5, 2019 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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Steven Adams

Before the Oklahoma City Thunder made it clear they were breaking their team down, rumors were out there about the trade potential of center Steven Adams.

In the post-Kawhi free agency NBA, Adams seems to be stuck on a losing team that would be right to want to move his contract out next.

Adams received a 4-year, $100 million contract extension from the Thunder in 2016.

He is owed $25.8 million for the 2019-20 season and $27.5 million the following season.

Adams is a great center and rounded out the Thunder’s “big three” after the departure of Kevin Durant and the addition of Paul George. We will just pretend Carmelo Anthony‘s tenure did not exist.

The 26-year-old enforcer’s numbers don’t fly off the stat sheet, but he has played his entire career giving up rebounds and put-backs to Russell Westbrook.

Adams averaged 13.9 points and about nine rebounds per game each of the last two seasons for the Thunder. Similar to Drummond, Adams is incredibly durable – playing at least 70 games in each of his six seasons.

The place where Adams comes up short in comparison to Drummond – outside of his counting numbers – is the contract he is owed.

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For all his upside and dirty work he puts in, Adams does not have the athletic ability and scoring threat Drummond presents on a nightly basis.

Adams’s contract is mostly unmovable whereas Drummond could be moved with ease in virtually the last year of his own deal.

Centers were widely available on short, cheap contracts this last offseason. Adams having a longer, more expensive remaining contract proves Drummond’s worth alone.

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