Do you think P.J. Dozier just sits there in his hotel room and looks at his stats on basketball-reference and giddily think to himself, “I’m gonna get so paid next season.”? Because that’s what I’m doing, minus the hotel room. I’m looking at P.J. Dozier’s stats on basketball-reference and thinking to myself, “Dozier is gonna get so paid next season.”
Note that “so paid” is a relative term. Dozier is making just $183,000 this season for the ‘Ggets. If he gets any kind of normal contract in the off-season, even if it’s a minimum deal, it will likely be way bigger, like ten times bigger, than his current contract (which was a two-way deal converted into a regular deal). And the better he plays, the bigger that contract is going to be.
Now you can come at me all you want and allege that Dozier isn’t thinkin about money right now and is only focused on playing the best ball he can to help his team win, but I would counter-allege that he’s equally focused on both things. Playing well (as he has done in the past two games) achieves both the goal of winning games and getting hella paid. Now he just has to keep praying to God that Jamal Murray never ever comes back to the lineup.