Getting $50 mil for doing nothing is hardly a career (although I would take it) they'll find a way to release him and he'll be back on the market again. This time I don't think anyone would take him. He has a bad work ethic and is prone to injury. $50mil in bank and doing nothing for the rest of his life isn't a career especially since he hardly even worked for that.
In a year...
He'll be retired at 27, floating in a swimming pool, banging escorts and watching Netflix for the next 40 or 50 years.
He earned it. Not because of his performance, but because of the NBA salary system (guaranteed) and the hype he managed to generate in those rare times when he was playing at a high level.
Really, there are soldiers being shot at, earning $39k a year...
Then there are really good NBA players earning $20 mil a year
And there are bad NBA players earning $20 mil a year...
Actors earning 20 million per FILM...
Rappers and metal bands making $100k a week to play music...
It's not fair, but it's the system/world in which we live. If Bynum was a college kid that came up with some idiotic social media idea... it made him $50 million... and then he retired at 27, he'd be on Fortune magazine with all sorts of props.
For a brief time, he was the future Shaq, he was the future Kareem. He was unstoppable (on a few nights). It's gotta burn him up - to be so amazing - to be stuck on a bench watching dudes with half his skill getting the TV time while the entire NBA industry calls him a bust. If he could be healthy making that same salary, I bet he would.
Guaranteed salaries in the NBA might be the problem here.