Mike Bibby and Jason Kidd Combined -- 3 Years, $42MM

http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main/ap-source-hawks-reach-deal-with-bibby/559821

and

http://www.insidehoops.com/blog/?p=4508

WTF? I am sorry, this makes no financial sense. Jason Kidd cannot play anymore. He outdid Mike Miller last year by averaging more minutes than Miller and actually scoring fewer points per game. Kidd finished 27th among Western Conference guards in scoring last year (behind CJ Watson, behind Rudy Fernandez, Mike Conley, Beno Udrih, Roger Mason.....)

Stop me when you hear some good reason for spending $8+MM a year on a 36 year old guard.

As for Bibby, well, he has always been an awful defender, so let's push that to one side and look at a stat that reflects primarily offense -- Efficiency. He is 32nd among NBA guards in Efficiency. He is 43rd in Efficiency per 48, slightly better than Travis Diener, but he is no.......Louis Amundson or Will Bynum (he is REALLY no Will Bynum -- Bynum is 29th in Eff48).

So for another $18MM the Hawks can content themselves with awful defense and mediocre offensive play, because.......................???????? I guess because they have no one else to turn to.........which might be caused by the fact that they have committed to paying one of the worst defenders in the past 20 years of NBA basketball $6MM per year at ages 31, 32, and 33.

True Reasons Behind These Signings:

-- Dallas: Kidd had Cuban by the proverbial balls. Cuban traded to get Kidd and he couldn't let him go for nothing after Devin Harris had such a great year in New Jersey. It would have been a PR nightmare for Cuban, akin to, for example, cutting Michael Finley and watching him win a title elsewhere.

-- Atlanta: The Hawks are actually decent. They made the second round of the playoff. They have nothing great coming in, and no one is clamoring to be a Hawk, so they need to keep whatever they have no matter how the overpay for it.

Imagine a situation where your wife had not had sex with you for 11 years. But then suddenly, last year and the year before, she had sex with you every other day cuz you hired an ugly Mini-Me looking housekeeper who really didn't do much and was overpaid for what little he did. But somehow you had sex pretty regularly. For two straight years!! Housekeeper guy asks for a raise. Can you really turn him away? I mean, shit, no matter what he asked for, he probably didn't ask for enough!! (In this example, your wife is the Hawks, sex is a decent playoff performance, you are Hawks management and Bibby is the ugly Mini-Me guy).

HM