Look, we get it. Ian Mahinmi is overpaid. His contract is bad in a vacuum, and it’s even worse in the context of Washington’s roster construction.
If he was getting paid fair market value, Washington would have had money to spend on other resources, like guard depth, or signing Mike Scott to a longer deal that could have kept them from their current predicament where they face overpaying him this summer or losing him for nothing.
But what exactly is fair market value for a traditional backup big man like Ian in today’s NBA?