Johnson's priority is to win, which the Bucks are doing with him and couldn't possibly do without him. If Cassell, Ray Allen and Glenn Robinson did what they did as consistently as he has done what he does, the Bucks would be waiting instead of playing today. He has received numerous awards. As a columnist, he has covered the World Series, Super Bowls, the US Open golf tournament, Summer and Winter Olympics, NCAA Final Fours, the NBA championship series, Davis Cup tennis, the Indianapolis 500 and bowl games. Take away Johnson's middle mucking defense and his 12-plus rebounds a game in the Charlotte series, and the Hornets move on and the Bucks move out.
Salaries are the way most players keep track of one another.
But Johnson measures his game a victory at a time. He's not built to score but, fortunately, he's not built to care, either. It's all about winning. I do my role because I enjoy doing it. Ray and those guys score the ball but they can't block shots, they're not big time rebounders, and they can't cover up the middle.