As a reminder, these were some of the contracts given out that offseason:

In what world was he ever getting they much money

When bird said he wouldn’t get a player that played with lebron he was talking about players like norris cole

I’m not disputing whether Rich Paul did a good or bad job, but the $70M estimate seems pretty absurd. Norris Cole averaged 7.0 points and 2.7 assists in his career.

You can maybe make the argument that Cole stifled his own stats by being an offball guard to LeBron but there’s really no evidence that he could have been a starting-level guard somewhere.

Norris Cole was 27 years old, coming off his 5th season of subpar production. He was a minimum contract player.

For context, Allen Crabbe was 23 years old, coming off his 3rd season, and had a breakout season as a productive backup.

Whoever told him 70 to 80 was just spit balling but he obviously liked hearing it. It’s not grounded in any sense of reality. He had no upside to speak of.

Dude was a 3rd string point guard behind Mario fucking Chalmers. He ain’t getting 70 mil.

No way Norris Cole was offered 70 million

Norris Cole played 6 years in the NBA.

He made a career total of 8.5 mill.

He believed he lost out on 70 to 80 mill in those 6 years.

Then he would have made around $13 mill/yr on average.

The average NBA salary from 2011 to 2016 was about $5 mill.

So Norris is saying he was worth nearly 2.5x the average salary.

Mind you at his best he was a backup PG.

And for reference guys like Rondo, Wall, and Iggy were making around $13mill/yr during that time.

I call cap on this one.

I think he missed out because he wasn’t good at playing basketball.

Dude is mad he didn’t get in on the run of horrible contracts that set multiple franchises back damn near a decade. Giving him 70 mil would have been worse than the Mozgov or Parsons deals.

They offered me 15, 10 mill something like that.

I turnt it down.

Rich Paul might’ve fumbled, but 70, 80M for Norris Cole sounds like “2K MyCareer with salary cap off” levels of fantasy.

His on-court impact was negative every season of his career and he was predominantly a bench player. There is no universe where he was approaching 70 million in career earnings. If he said Rich Paul cost him a final contact for another 10 million or something I might buy into that. But this absurd hyperbole makes me side with Rich Paul of all people.

Rich Paul only got LeBron the vet min in Philly. trash.

He’s referring to the 2015 milikti-year extension they turned down from New Orleans. It backfired and he had to take 1 yr for 3 mil. I don’t know what the offer was but it was to be a long term backup to Jrue..not sure where he got 70 million loss from.

People want to go for the big dollars, but then want someone to blame when the risk taking doesn’t work out.

They probably overestimate the power of agents, just like many people here overestimate their power. Their ability to get great contracts for all-NBA players isn’t a good barometer of their overall power.

He’s so full of shit that fact checking this so unnecessary. At the time Kyrie got extended for 5 years 90 million so is he really trying to argue a team was offering him Kyrie level money and Rich Paul told him to turn that down?

He’s out of his mind he was never getting \(70M-\)80M

Who is giving Norris Cole 70-80m?

Rich Paul makes a % of the contracts negotiated. Why would it be in his best interest to screw a client out of $70m?

For 7 points a game? Nah bro 17 to 18 max

Bismack gyat damn son

Who is Norris Cole? lol

people in this thread think they know better than the guy who literally had these offers on the table lmao

Child me played with him in NCAA 10. He was my Allen Iverson.

Norris Cole

CAREER EARNINGS THRU 2026

$8,408,805

He definitely was at least a 4yr/$40M guy

Can we book a Beyond Scared Straight episode with him and Jalen Duren?

Cole was pretty bad the post Lebron year in Miami. It kinda revealed he was just a product of playing with Lebron.

He did finish strong in NoLA that 14-15 season. Even though he was injured in 15-16, like he wasn’t bad? 10 a game on mid shooting as a backup guard on $3 million is solid.

Unclear why he never got signed long term after that. He was bad in OKC in his short stint.

You would have thought he’d get a few more chances.

Norris add Peyton Watson to your group chat please

Good advice, but think the value for money is off

I just know Rich Paul has bots here to dismiss this shit lol

Who?

Jalen Duren can take some notes

Career backup… ok

Petty Paul

Who

Lot of jealousy here. Cole was not getting that type of money.

Surely he’s leaving something out? Like… if he wasn’t holding out then why did he go to China? Like at what point are you not over in another country trying to learn Chinese do you think to yourself “wait a second… my I should talk with my agent?”. Like he obviously went somewhere else and played at some point that’s on you

What made him think he was going to get that much from Pat Riley in ‘16?

Hopefully he fired whoever advised him to get that goofy high top fade too

But just think about all the taxes he saved, way better off.

Not only was he never getting anywhere close to that money, but he was Lebron’s Heat teammate, so he almost certainly was offered more money due to them being teammates and both being Klutch clients than he would have been offered elsewhere.

I still think about Allen Crabbe 4/75m to this very day. I just don’t understand it even as someone who watched him at Cal

Norris Cole averaged 10-3 in 26 mpg in 2015-2016. Considering all the outrageous contracts that went on during that offseason, I wouldn’t be surprised if some team offered him an insane contract.

Just loook at his career stats and he washed out the league in about 5-6 years

The really need agents to hold a 4 year university degree

Mozgov should be sending LeBron Christmas presents every year for his contract. Dude was straight trash after he left Cleveland.

everyone who didn’t pan out blames the agent, nobody ever says “I just wasn’t good enough to justify that money”

Don’t worry Norris that’s only $13.75 after taxes

Norris Cole or any of these guys being worth 70 million makes no sense. We are just the worst timeline

Was this the same off-season Mozgov got 50m 🤔

Bismarck ⁴⁄₇₂ is insane lol

allen crabbe a 75 million dollar contract LMAO

It’s more that his agent wasn’t able to trick a team into vastly overpaying him in the summer of 2016 like a bunch of other players got.

delusional

Jared Dudley getting 30 million is nuts

This is the same dude who said the heat hindered his development because they wouldn’t let him take mid range jumpers.

Why they all wearing clown shoes?

People acting like Rich Paul didn’t cost KCP money too before the Lakers bailed him out