somebody pay gerald wallace his damn money

gerald wallace looks pharaonic when he has his mouth closed and is grimacing.
that he is a resident member of the nba-players-who-look-distinctly-like-other-things club (chris bosh is the president; he strongly resembles a raptor) is reason enough to pay gerald more than the midlevel that he's currently getting. add in the fact that at 24, he's been steadily improving and seems to finally be healthy, and that he has bounce out the building, and that he steals like it's watts circa 1993, and that he scores without a jumper. this is a bad, bad man.
if he doesn't get paid, and there's a good chance he won't, given that every team but his current one and the orlando magic is either over or close to the cap, this is going to be some serious scandal. he didn't get paid 2 summers ago, even though every gm in the league should have seen this monster struggling to break loose.
the one major thing besides the fact that he's injured a lot that's hurting is value is that he plays in charlotte, which is an nba wasteland. he does have good stats on a bad team, but this is a bad team that's going places. however, they're not there yet. they're probably one or two years and one free agent signing away from bursting onto the eastern conference scene like illmatic. reckognize that they have had no bad contracts, and one semi-bad draft pick unless morrison figures his shit out, then they're model nba citizens.
that ain't the point, but it kind of is. gerald can't get paid if he's got no exposure. i would draw parallels to hood mixtapes. people know that shit's bumping every block but since sony ain't exactly sending A&R riding through the hood like "what's up" no-one but the streets heard that sound.
that is simply not right. someone should pay this man his money. i hope its the suns, and they show the world what new-age james worthy looks like on the new-age showtime lakers.