For you numbers Gurus...
http://insidethecap.blogspot.com/Guaranteed Money:
- Signing Bonus: $5M
- 2009 guaranteed P5 salary: $6M
- Option Bonus: $21M
- 2010 guaranteed P5 salary: $3.6M
- 2011 guaranteed P5 salary: $5.4M
TOTALING: $41M guaranteed
Non-Guaranteed Money:
- 2012 P5 salary: $6.7M
- 2012 Off-Season Workout Bonus: $500K
TOTALING: $7.2M
Total Over 2009-2012: $48.2M
So you ask, I thought his contract was 7 years (2009-2015) for $100M? Well, here's where the fluff comes in. It goes as follows:
Non-Guaranteed Money:
- 2013 Discretionary Signing Bonus: $20M (OR if teams chooses at their discretion to not pay the Signing Bonus, there then becomes a $35M incentive that can be earned given certain performance)
- 2013 August 31 Roster Bonus: $500K
- 2013 P5 salary: $8.5M
- 2014 August 31 Roster Bonus: $500K
- 2014 P5 salary: $10.3M
- 2015 August 31 Roster Bonus: $500K
- 2015 P5 salary: $11.5M
TOTALING: (assuming the team elects to pay the discretionary signing bonus) $51.8M
Therefore, giving you a GRAND TOTAL of $100M over 7 years ($48.2M + $51.8M).