Wesley “Consolation Prize” Matthews may be getting paid a ton of money, but at least he can still sort of play basketball. There a bunch of players getting paid out there who can’t. And it’s not like he’s even getting that much worse; he arrived in Dallas an okay-ish player, and an okay-ish player he remains. I can think of a lot worse ways to spend 17 million dollars (real talk though basketball salaries are so high they don’t even seem like real money) than on an aging wing player who can still get hot and bury teams in jumpers.
I bet when they paid him, though, they thought that he’d kinda sorta lead them to multiple playoff appearances or something.
Still, 29 points and 7 threes, maybe if his teammates weren’t such garbage (sorry Barnes but you ain’t even good) they could’ve not gotten handled in this one.