Clippers forward Josh Smith bemoans $6.9 million salary

Here’s more on what Smith had to say, touching on last year’s playoff series, why he chose the Clippers and what his role will be.

Smith is slated to earn $6,403,262 next season – $4,904,075 from the Pistons (who released him last year), $947,276 from the Clippers and $551,911 from the National Basteball Association (which pays a portion of salaries for players on one-year minimum contracts).

It wasn’t about the money because of the Detroit situation.

“At the end of the day, you know, I do have a family,” he told reporters.

Smith: “I kind of find humor in serious situations sometimes, but you’ve got to do whatever it takes in order to acquire or keep a person of that dominance like he’s been doing the past couple years”.

You played in Houston previous year.

I don’t care who you are or what you’re making, when you budget for something and then your yearly salary is cut in half, that’s a shot to the system. “Right now, this is what I want to focus on”.

That realization, mixed with the limited free agent interest after a sound postseason run, has to be hard on the man. And it will be hard on his family to jump from town to town to town to town and to (we’re guessing) another town next summer, all in the space of three years. This is true if the player signs withanyprofessional team: it does not have to be an National Basteball Association team. But he is also getting $5.4 million from a previous deal with the Detroit Pistons.

Josh Smith said it was going to be harder for him and his family financially this year because he is making only $6.9 million to play with the Los Angeles Clippers. If he signed Houston’s non bird offer of $2.49 million, he would be a little under $1 million over the minimum.

Maybe average Americans like many of you and I don’t realize the pressures of playing professional basketball and maintaining a comfortable lifestyle for a group of people. Then he would’ve lost about $500,000 in salary from Detroit. Smith’s comments weren’t exactly clear so there is room for interpretation about what he actually meant. Finally, it is worth remembering that in modern media, “clickbait” is a real problem. Thus it shouldn’t come as a shock that some articles may be willing to push more “interesting” headlines than what actually exists.