Joe John Barea gets his

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Joe John is making $19 million ... makes total sense

Remember that lockout that the NBA had? Where the owners were complaining that they were broke and that the contracts were too crazy, particularly to bad players?

Fun times. When was that? Oh yeah. It was a month ago.

Fast forward and the Minnesota Timberwolves are giving Joe John Barea four years and $19 million to be their back-up point guard.

I've been downright mean to Barea. There's little argument that he is extremely limited and extremely overrated. But that's not his fault. That's fans and media over-celebrating players that score and do little else.

There's also no argument that Barea worked harder, tried harder and was willing to do just about anything to make the team. I, of all people, should appreciate that.

I will say this: Give me Barea over Brendan Haywood, Jason Terry and Caron Butler any day of the week.

I honestly don't know what Minnesota is thinking. With Luke Ridnour and Ricky Rubio, I can't see an immediate need for guard help, unless they go extremely small at points in a game. I certainly don't blame Barea. If the money is there, why not take it. No doubt, if he gets minutes, the fans will love him.

Thankfully, he's gone. The Mavericks won a title with the little scamp running around. I guess there's not much more to say, but there was this overwhelming feeling that Barea meant more to T-shirt jersey sales than the on-court outcome. We've run out an owner that had money on his mind. We certainly don't need another.

Stay hard, J.J.

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