With less than a month to go before the 2025 NBA trade deadline, we’re officially in trade, rumor and contract evaluation season.

Now and the offseason have long been prime windows to look at what individual NBA players are making and compare that to how valuable (or detrimental) they are to their teams.

When analyzing whether a contract is good, several factors come into play. Age is important. Health history is huge. The length of the contract and the average annual value are obviously key, too. But one thing is unavoidable, and that’s subjectivity.

So, with all of the above in mind, and while omitting both rookie contracts (whose values are determined by the league) and the league’s very best players (Nikola Jokić and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander obviously provide more value than their contracts suggest, but we’re operating in a world with salary caps and max deals), here are the five best and five worst contracts in the NBA right now.