Tweet of the Night: Reggie Miller trolls report that Pelicans want to sign Tyreke Evans to four-year deal

Put Tyreke Evans among the list of guards out of the 2009 Draft to be looking at a four-year, $40-plus million offer.

Although it came a season after his peers like Jrue Holiday, Stephen Curry and Ty Lawson, Evans was offered a very lucrative deal late on Monday (to the surprise of many) to join the New Orleans Pelicans.

The question is this: is he worth or deserving of such a deal? Evans showed much promise as a rookie, when he joined LeBron James and Oscar Robertson as the only rookie ever to post at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists. The problem? That was his best season to date, and the guard has mostly gone under the radar since, except when he was caught doing this.

There have always been questions about which position best suits his style of play. Though he has unique handles and the ability to find teammates, he simply hasn’t been good enough to man the position at the point. So they played him at the two, but his suspect perimeter shooting turned him into a dreadful liability at times. He had some success as a small forward in the 2011-2012 season, but that’s not his natural position either. In terms of efficiency, it is worth noting that he is coming off the best season of his career with a true shooting percentage of 56 percent – well above the career-best 53 percent mark he posted in his rookie season. That, however, doesn’t change the fact that his role has steadily diminished through his first four seasons, and his scoring has dropped every single year – all the way down to 15.2 points last season.

Evans probably hasn’t done enough to warrant the contract that he has been offered. Still, he is only 23 years of age and still has yet to see the best years of his career. It’s also not as if he has had the best of guidance in the mess of a situation that has been the Sacramento Kings over the years. On these merits, perhaps the risk is worth taking. The question now is figuring out what the Pelicans are planning to do with four ball-dominant guards on the roster – they currently have Holiday, Greivis Vasquez and Eric Gordon. We won’t really know how Evans could maximize his potential for this team (assuming he signs the deal and the Kings let him walk) until they make another move.

In the meantime, some will continue to wonder how anyone could offer Evans such a big contract. TNT analyst Reggie Miller heard the news and had this to say: