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You've already seen the NBA's worst contracts at every position. Now it's time to celebrate the best.

Most of these deals were signed in a different salary-cap climate, and they're being evaluated against the current one. Nothing is wrong with this.

Context is important, but it does not invalidate the exercise. The league's cap changes every year, for better or worse, to minor extents and drastic leaps. That's the NBA. Luck and foresight play a role in everything. Teams don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt which deals will look terrible and which will turn up bargains. That's the gamble they make in signing everyone.

With this is mind, let's lay down some ground rules.

Positional designations are determined using Basketball-Reference's play-by-play data and confirmed by looking at NBA.com's lineup numbers.

Expiring contracts are excluded from consideration. (Player and team options are fine.) Apologies to Avery Bradley and Isaiah Thomas, but this is too much of a gray area. Are they great contracts because they cost next to nothing now? Or are they bad ones because they're one year away from mushrooming?

Rookie-scale deals don't count. Karl-Anthony Towns is on a great contract. We get it. Second-round prospects, however, are eligible for inclusion. They didn't sign their contracts on the mandated rookie scale. If they've developed into a primo asset, we're rewarding them and their teams.

Full-blown max contracts miss the cut as well, even if they look great. LeBron James can't top every performance-based list. Superstars need to have accepted $10 million or more below their max scale for the life of their deal to receive a nod.

Remember: These contracts are being selected from the eyes of the teams, not the players, many of whom are outperforming their salaries by a mile and are underpaid as a result. They have our sympathies.