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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
Not following your thinking here. Are you talking about a 5-year contract with the fifth year being a team option? Or a six-year contract with the sixth being a team option? But either way, I'm still not seeing why the player would view it that way.
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I think he's talking about a 5 year contract with a 6th year team option. The only money guaranteed the player is the 5 year salary and the buy out. Anything beyond that is completely out of his control. Other than the buyout, the team option represents no benefit to the player. The only way it gets exercised if if the player is playing well. And if the player is playing well, he'd likely rather become a free agent than get what is essentially a one year deal. So, if anything, that team option year is a negative to the player.