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Jose Calderon’s Warriors Career: $207,500 Per Hour, 0 Minutes, NBA Championship
This past March, Jose Calderon signed with the Golden State Warriors. But, Warriors star Kevin Durant got injured the day before and Golden State already knew that the injury will force their star to sit out a minimum of four weeks. The Warriors also knew that they wanted to sign Matt Barnes as the player to fill the gap Durant was leaving behind. Instead of just not signing Calderon and saying: “Sorry, that’s some bad luck and timing”, the Warriors signed Calderon nontheless and waived him again two hours later.
Warriors sign Matt Barnes, waive Jose Calderon. But there was still this jersey outside of the visiting locker room in Chicago: pic.twitter.com/EKUFUlMUZM
— Mike Singer (@msinger) March 2, 2017
Not only was this a nice gesture, it also meant that Claderon got paid. His two hour stint with the Warriors earned him $415,000 (the amount of money he was set to make for the rest of the season). Not too bad of a salary. That’s $207,500 per hour.
The best part about the story is that Jose Calderon is an NBA Champion. Since he was part of the team at one point of the season, the Warriors are eligible to give Calderon a championship ring. Of course only if they want to. This could be the most undeserving championship ring in NBA history, yet I would give Calderon his ring, because without Kevin Durant’s injury, he would have won the title with Warriors the other night.
He even got a shoutout during the Warriors’ Championship Parade.
