I know they gave him his initial contract, but this time around, Bron gave Bron 50Ms.
That whole situation is hilarious to me. LAs roster wasn’t winning anything in the west and then lose the, per media fucks, the best 3rd option in the league. LA is trying to be in rebuild around Luka mode. So in true Bron fashion, realizing the team isn’t about him anymore, takes his player option, putting 50 million handcuffs on the front office and has Rich put out a passive aggressive trade request. Now you’ll start to see guys like Nick Wright question the league cause “how can no one pick up the greatest player evarrrre?!!” All this only week(s) after Bron sits on a podcast talking about how weird ring culture is and it doesn’t matter to him lmfao
The fact of the matter is, not one single contender for a title gets better adding him. OKC, Cleveland, Houston, NY, Denver are probably your top 5 chances next season. You aren’t getting Bron without a big contract moving plus young pieces or draft stock. OKC could do it, in theory, but are coming off a 68 win championship run with every single player that played significant minutes returning. And Presti isn’t a moron.