Today's game of Player A / Player B...
2016-17 stats, per 36 mins.
Player A: 16.7 pts on .575 ts / 3.8 reb / 2.8 ast / 1.2 stl / 1.7 tov
Player B: 19.1 pts on .568 ts / 3.7 reb / 3.0 ast / 0.9 stl / 1.8 tov
Player A (playoffs): 17.9 pts on .630 ts / 4.3 reb / 1.8 ast / 1.0 stl / 1.8 tov (16 games, 219 minutes)
Player B (playoffs): 13.9 pts on .426 ts / 2.9 reb / 1.3 ast / 0.5 stl / 1.8 tov (6 games, 200 minutes)
Player A: 26 years old
Player B: 25 years old
Player A is Ian Clark, who signed yesterday with the Pelicans for one year at the vet min, $1.6M.
Player B is Tim Hardaway Jr., who signed with the LOLKnicks for … 4/$71M.
Worth noting that THJ played more minutes per game, but I'm pretty sure the "Millsap doctrine" completely applies to Ian Clark: he has the youth, athleticism, body type, etc. to easily handle 25-30 mpg if needed. In the one game last season where Kerr gave his middle finger to the NBA-schedulers by benching everyone v. San Antonio, Clark played 34 minutes and dropped 36 points (on 15-21 fg).
I mean, I haven't watched that much Hardaway Jr. (you guys as Eastern Conference fans have probably watched him a lot more) but how different is he from Ian Clark? I feel like the most notable differences that could have led to such a gross disparity in their markets are:
(1) Minutes per game;
(2) Hardaway has a couple inches taller head-height (but only 0.5" better wingspan); and
(3) Knicks are gonna Knick.