Tim Hardaway Jr.: 4 years, $71 million (2017)
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When most people expected the New York Knicks to start purging salaries off their bloated payroll in order to begin (yet another) full-scale rebuild, they surprisingly made a run at Tim Hardaway Jr.
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Hardaway started his career in New York, and showed promise when he moved on to the Atlanta Hawks, but the fact remains that Hardaway had never started more than 30 games in a season, and yet the Knicks were still comfortable handing him almost $18 million per year on average.
In a totally predictable twist of irony, the Knicks traded away Hardaway less than two seasons later to — you guessed it — start purging salaries of their payroll.
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