| Player | BPM | TS% |
|---|---|---|
| Porzingis | 7.1 | 69.5% |
| Hauser | 5.9 | 72.4% |
| Tatum | 5.0 | 62.0% |
| White | 4.2 | 63.2% |
| Kornet | 4.1 | 79.9% |
| Holiday | 2.5 | 52.9% |
| Brown | 0.7 | 56.0% |
Death, Taxes, Jaylen Brown’s advanced stats being terrible.
One dimensional, mediocre efficiency scorers just aren’t that valuable. You’d have to argue that he’s far more valuable than his box score stats suggest, but there you have an even bigger problem. Long term RAPM data suggests he’s maybe the 100th best player in the league. These are two completely independent metrics agreeing here. You have the boxscore metric which is saying he’s not that valuable, and you have the pure plus minus metric also saying he’s not that valuable.
Did Boston make a huge mistake signing him to a $300M deal?
Prior ranks on the team in BPM
2023: 6th
2022: 7th
2021: 3rd
People love to mention Jaylen Brown being overpaid so far this season but his salary is $25M this season, definitely a great bargain. If you want to argue he’s overpaid next year when his new contract actually kicks in, go for it. But his contract is a really good value this season no matter what his advanced stats say (and I say this as a huge Jaylen Brown critic).
And even if he is a bit overpaid while he’s on his $300M contract, as long as he is healthy/available (as healthy as he’s been so far in his career) it will never be a boat anchor contract or one of the worst contracts in the league. He is still a positive player. Even if he’s a little overpaid that’s not a bad contract. The bad contracts are when you tie up a bunch of cap space in a negative/useless player - usually a guy who can’t stay on the floor due to injury.