James Harden is a virtuoso talent who has led the NBA in scoring for the past three seasons and earned $ 38 million in salary this year.
He is guarded in the playoffs by a guy who earns $ 155,647.
This unlikely whisper from Harden is an unregistered rookie named Luguentz Dort with a prorated minimum wage for this season that amounts to roughly one-third of what Harden earns in a single game.
This financial disparity is on display whenever the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets take the floor. The peculiar thing about the basketball economy is that both players have more value than their contracts and for very different reasons. Harden is paid the maximum a team can pay. Dort is the lowest paid.
Now two players at opposite ends of the NBA pay scale find themselves in a match unlike any other sport ever seen.
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