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We’ve got a lot of numbers to look at here. First let’s check out the overall highest paid players. A few points to make about this list is that you’ve got Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming out for the Rockets which will of course skew their numbers and the same goes for Gilbert Arenas with his suspension.

If you take these players and and sort them by how much they earn per point scored it now looks like this:

Now if you take that one step further and calculate the amount of  points each will total over the course of the season and divide that into the amount per point, you get the following:

So from that we can deduce that the best deal of the top paid NBA players is as follows, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Joe Johnson, Chris Paul, Zach Randolph, Amare Stoudemire.

Now let’s look at the top 30 scorers from the NBA.

And if you sort them per price per point you get:

And again, if you figure the total points they’ll score over the season and divide that into the price per point you come up with the following rankings:

So after all of these numbers we can deduce (lucky for the Rockets) that the best overall deal in the NBA (by a long shot) is Aaron Brooks. He is almost 7x as good a deal as LeBron James. That of course is considering the annual cost of Aaron times his production. The biggest factor is that he earns only $1 million a year whereas most other players are earning much much more than this.