just to clarify Kyrie is one of the few examples where the player is making a ton of money even by NBA standards. He is a top 20 player in the league and has a ton of endorsement money.
He will be paid but only for road games since the team is choosing for him not to play until he can play in every game and right now its not possible given Cuomo/DeBlasio dictatorship in NY. He was set to make just under 35M this season so yeah he will loose a bit more than half of that (there are two road games in NYC so they would still fall under the same restriction i believe) but basically a guy is going to make close to 17M for doing nothing. Not a bad gig.
I do think Kyrie is an oddball BUT i respect the hell out of him so far for sticking to his beliefs even when it will cost him a TON of money. Its roughly 13% of the total of the 4 year deal he signed.
just to clarify Kyrie is one of the few examples where the player is making a ton of money even by NBA standards. He is a top 20 player in the league and has a ton of endorsement money.
He will be paid but only for road games since the team is choosing for him not to play until he can play in every game and right now its not possible given Cuomo/DeBlasio dictatorship in NY. He was set to make just under 35M this season so yeah he will loose a bit more than half of that (there are two road games in NYC so they would still fall under the same restriction i believe) but basically a guy is going to make close to 17M for doing nothing. Not a bad gig.
I do think Kyrie is an oddball BUT i respect the hell out of him so far for sticking to his beliefs even when it will cost him a TON of money. Its roughly 13% of the total of the 4 year deal he signed.