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45  -  Steven Hunter - PF/C, 7'0, 240 Free agent - Last played with Sassari (Italy, 2011)

Date of birth: 10/31/1981        Country: USA      Drafted (NBA): 15th pick, 2001      Out of: DePaul   NBA Experience: 9 years   Hand: Right  Agent: Mark Bartelstein (Priority Sports) Back in the day, Steven Hunter was about as athletic of a 7 footer as you would find. This is kind of fortunate, since his athleticism was also pretty much the sum total of his skillset. Hunter could never shoot, post up or finish with much aplomb, and all of his offensive production came out of his athleticism. He ran the floor better than all other 7 footers, and his cuts to the basket and occasional post feed for a turnaround jumper were about all he would get offensively. Hunter has never had much of a jumpshot, and is even worse from the foul line, but the sheer speed and leaping ability made him an occasionally useful, if highly unpolished, offensive player. Defensively, things weren't a whole lot different. Hunter's athleticism made him a fine shot bocker, able to affect any and all shots around the rim, and to match up fairly well with the few face-up centres in the game today. Unfortunately, as is the case with so many shot blockers, Hunter's rebounding rate has never been good, and while he measures in at 7 feet tall, he's not very strong. He can and will be pushed around on the interior, and no amount of jumping can make up for being out of position in the first place. The real bad news is that his size and athleticism led to the inevitable decline of his knees. When you jump for a living, the compression injuries will catch up with you eventually. I don't know if it's what they'd call "jumper's knee", but after ACL surgery back in 2002, Hunter's knee never fully recovered, and his career has been effectively stopped by the chronic pain in his continually deteriorating knee. Even when he is able to play, the state of his knee can't have had any positive effect on his athleticism (sorry to be so patronisingly obvious there), and without much of a skillset to fall back on, it's hard to know what good he brings. Hunter has not had much success in college or in the pros, and was drafted and paid based off of the potential his athletic prowess generated. But he's never fulfilled it, and now with the knee shot to pieces, he's never going to. - 16th October, 2009.

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From blog:

Top 101 NBA Ten-Day Contract Candidates (When 20 Would Probably Have Been Enough)

2011-01-05

Steven Hunter - Hunter's NBA career probably ended this summer when his five year Billy King special did. The young Steven Hunter that was a athletic 7 foot shotblocking specialist has been taken from us (and more importantly, from him) due to chronic knee complaints that have effectively forced his retirement, even if such retirement is not official yet. Given the chance of a miracle cure, Hunter would garner interest, but if you want an athletic 7 footer, you might as well have Ryan Hollins. [read full post]

Addendum to the Xavier Henry thing

2011-09-18

It no longer matters, but, for point of reference, four year 120% contracts for [Xavier] Henry and [Greivis] Vasquez will total a combined $15,167,563. Contrastly, 100% scale contracts for the two of them would have totalled a combined $12,639,636. That is a difference of $2,527,927, over four years, for a combined eight years of service between the two players. That total amount is less than they just sold Dominique Jones for, less than they just gave Tony Allen, less than they got for taking on Steven Hunter's deal last year, and less than 40% of what they're still paying Marko Jaric, a man currently without a job. Worse still, Henry and Vasquez would probably have met those minute incentives - if not in year one, then through the remainder of the contract. The savings, therefore, would have been even less. Yet that comparatively trivial amount was deemed enough to risk everything. [read full post]

The best of what's left after what was the best of what's left has gone and is no longer left

2010-08-21

- Steven Hunter * - As far as can be told, Hunter has not retired, neither officially nor unofficially. But he's started attending broadcatser training, which hints at future plans. [read full post]

The best of what's left

2010-07-30

Steven Hunter - Hunter is probably done due to years of injuries caused by years of jumping. They are best described here. [read full post]

A History Of Failed Physicals

2010-07-26

February 2006: Steven Hunter The Philadelphia 76ers, who had had their cap woefully mismanaged by their President Billy King (not Jean), decided they needed to save some money. At the same time, the New Orleans Hornets (who are a recurring theme in this list) are looking for immediate big man depth to fill the void left by Chris Andersen's two year suspension, handed down the previous month. The two agreed to a deal that saw Steven Hunter traded to the Hornets for two future second round picks, getting the Hornets some much needed big man cover and getting the Sixers out from under one of King's more ambitious contracts (a five year guaranteed deal to a backup big man who had only played more than 60 games once). However, this deal was also vetoed, after the Hornets doctors found a whole load of bad news in Hunter's right knee. Hunter had torn the ACL in the knee back in 2002, and even though he was healthy and playing at the time, the Hornets doctors didn't like the knee's prognosis, and viewed something that the Sixers doctors had deemed to be insignificant as instead being significant enough to cancel the deal, much to Billy and Jean's chagrin. They were right, too. Hunter played in only 19 games and 120 minutes in the 2007/08 season due to his right knee, then missed all of the 2008/09 season because of it, and nearly retired at Christmas time due to the unrelenting pain. He was later traded to the Memphis Grizzlies as a pure salary dump, where he was once again not expected to play because of the knee. As it happens, Hunter DID play a few minutes for the Grizzlies this season; 158 minutes in 21 games, to be exact, before leaving the team in February to further rehab his permanently painful knee. This meant a total of 278 minutes played over the last three years of his contract, while earning a tasty 8 figures for his troubles. The team rescinding the trade had once again made the right decision. [read full post]

Current Trade Kickers

2010-06-11

[...] You only get one trade kicker per contract; that is to say, if you sign a contract with a trade kicker in it, the trade kicker is only applied to the first trade that contract is in and not to any subsequent contracts. (The exception is with sign and trades, where the first trade - the sign and trade - is ignored, and the trade kicker is applied to the next subsequent trade. This is why Peja is listed above.) Because of that, there are a good many players whose current contracts featured trade kickers that have already been invoked. Here they are now, along with the value of their kicker. Note: only currently-being-paid contracts are listed, and the player doesn't necessarily have to be on an NBA roster any more. - Tony Battie (10%) - Mark Blount (15%) - Bruce Bowen (lesser of 15% or $300,000) - Devin Brown (10%) - Greg Buckner (5%) - Kevin Garnett (15%) - Drew Gooden (5%) - Eddie House (7.5%) - Steven Hunter (7.5%) - Zydrunas Ilgauskas (15%) - Mike James (5%) - Jared Jeffries (15%) - Amir Johnson (15%) - Mikki Moore (12.5%) - Shaquille O'Neal (15%) - Quentin Richardson (7.5%) - John Salmons (15%) - Bobby Simmons (10%) - Etan Thomas (15%) - Damien Wilkins (10%, only up to $1.2 mil) [read full post]

Note: Non-US teams that the player has played for are, unless stated otherwise, from the top division in that nation. If league or division name is expressly stated, it's not the top division. The only exceptions to this are the rare occasions where no one league is said to be above the other, such as with the JBL/BJ League split inJapan. In the event where more than one agent is listed, this is because the player has more than one agent. This is rather commonplace - a lot of times, a player will sign with a big agency, and they will have both primary and secondary agents from within that agency to handle their affairs. (Where that happens, the primary agent is listed first.) Also, foreign players tend to have both American and domestic agents. Where the details of such are known, they are listed.

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