NBA Free Agency: 10 Worst Contracts Signed in the Summer of 2016

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#1 Luol Deng

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The last time Luol Deng played a minute of competitive basketball was the season opener for the Lakers last season, when he played 13 minutes and had two points, one assist, one steal and a turnover.

Ever since, he's been frozen out of the team's rotations by Luke Walton, who has explicitly been told to focus on the development of the Lakers' young talent at the wing positions.

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This means that all the value the purple-and-gold brigade got from the 33-year-old was in the 2016-17 season when he appeared in 56 games and averaged 7.6 points and 5.3 assists.

All Deng has done for the past eight months is chill at Los Angeles' beaches while taking home a haul of $18 million annually.

He will probably do that for two more years at this rate since no franchise in the league will touch this contract with a bargepole now.


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