Salary in 2027-28 Season: $61,015,192 (player option)

Salary Cap Percentage: 32.5

Age in 2027-28 Season: 32

Karl-Anthony Towns is set to begin a four-year, $220.4 million supermax deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, a deal that tops Stephen Curry’s $215.3 million contract, Joel Embiid’s $213.2 million deal and Luka Dončić’s $215.2 million five-year agreement.

Like others on this list, Towns is a good player who should be paid a lot. This is MVP-caliber player money, however, a ceiling the three-time All-Star will never reach.

Towns is the second-best player on his own team and only slightly improves Minnesota’s core statistically when he’s on the floor. The Wolves had a net rating of plus-9.3 when their Big Three of Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, and Towns were all in the game together last season. With just Edwards and Gobert in and Towns on the bench, this number still stood at plus-9.0.

His production (21.8 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists) is far from supermax-worthy on this group, especially as Edwards continues his meteoric rise.

There are also durability issues to consider here. Towns has only played an average of 50 games in the past five years, including missing time due to knee surgery last season. In the 20 games that he missed, the Wolves still went 14-6.

Towns is a talented player, one of the best shooting big men in the league and a key piece to the Wolves’ success. He’s also wildly overpaid on this new contract, one that will have him earning Nikola Jokić and Giannis Antetokounmpo money moving forward.