Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
If $18m is the top end of what I would be willing to pay, it's not good value. It's literally the maximum I could stomach. A contract negotiation is a haggle: if you are forced into paying the maximum that you can manage before giving in, that was not a good negotiation and you didn't get good value, you got put over a barrel and forced to pay out.
If Lonzo is worth $18m a year (for the sake of argument) then paying him $18m a year is not ''good value'' just because someone else would have paid him $20m a year; it's just plain old default asking price. Now, if someone is worth $18m a year and you get them for $15m a year, then that's good value, because you got something for less than their market going. So that's a deal.
It's not called ''getting a deal'' if you get something for the going rate, it's just called buying.