Andre Drummond

Contract Value Index (CVI)

Philadelphia Sixers got a D Contract Value Index out of the Andre Drummond deal because rotation impact tracks with the AAV. On a $5M annual contract for a 32-year-old longtime veteran, Drummond's 2025-26 production of 6.6 PPG and 8.6 RPG across 54 games aligns squarely with a depth-piece ceiling — serviceable rebounding and interior presence without the offensive efficiency or defensive versatility a contender needs from a starting center, which explains why the CVI grades down despite the modest salary outlay. At $5M, he's not overpaying the market rate for a backup big, but he's also not delivering enough on-court value to justify an elevated AAV in a league where minimum-contract veterans can fill similar roles; the contract is simply sized for what he is, which is a functional spare part rather than a cornerstone asset. At 32 seasons into a 14-year career, Drummond sits squarely in the "salary-matched-to-diminished-production" zone — the All-NBA Third Team selection in 2016 is a legitimate credential, but it's a decade removed, and the current narrative frames him as a reliable depth veteran playing out the string, not as a player in the window of meaningful impact. With the Sixers in a seventh-seed playoff grind and the team making marginal roster adjustments at the margins, Drummond's $5M deal functions exactly as intended: low-cost, low-risk interior depth that asks nothing more of the franchise cap-wise and delivers exactly what a backup center on a one-year contract should deliver. The D grade reflects not incompetence but rather the inescapable reality that a 32-year-old veteran on a modest deal, producing depth-level stats, simply cannot generate positive contract value in a competitive market — he's a break-even asset, and the CVI appropriately prices that reality.

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