The award this week has to go to none other than Stephon “Starbury” Marbury. The New York Knicks are paying this buffoon a whopping $20,840,625 to not play. Stephon has been inactive the first eight games of this year and it doesn’t appear this will be changing anytime soon. I just don’t get how the Knickerbockers can waste so much money on such a waste of space!

***Stephon Marbury***
$20,840,625 a year from the New York Knicks
31 years old
0 games played
0 ppg 0 rpg

Last week we gave you Raef “Tour De” LaFrentz’s hysterical salary of $12,440,787 for 1.9 points a game. This week isn’t quite as comical, but it is still ridiculous nonetheless.

***Kenny Thomas***
$7,875,000 a year from Sacramento
30 years old
23 games played
1.4 ppg 2.7 rpg

The largest waste of salary to date we have posted was in the $11 million dollar range so today we decided to step it up a bit. The winner is….

***Raef LaFrentz***
$12,440,787 A YEAR from Portland
31 years old
19 games played
1.9 ppg 1.6 rpg

This week’s entrant might be the most comical yet in our ongoing series about inflated salaries in the NBA. He is on the second worst team currently in the NBA and has only played in 26 of the 40 games so far this year for Miami.

***Mark Blount***
$7,901,040 clams a year

32 years old
8-32 record this year
26 games played
5.6 ppg 2.6 rpg

Last week we gave you the absurd salary of Theo Ratliff, but now its on to the next one.

***Rasho Nesterovic***
$7,840,000 clams a year

31 years old
20-17 record this year
27 games played
4.5 ppg 4.3 rpg

I think we all know that NBA players get paid very very well, but SportsUnderground.com would like to shed some light on how well. The first one we would like to unveil is as absurd as it gets in our mind.

***Theo Ratliff of the Minnesota Timberwolves***
$11,666,666 smackeroonies a year

34 years old
Timberwolves have a 4-28 record
Ratliff has played in 6 games this year
8.2 ppg and 4.5 rpg