NBA will cover a portion of Durrant's OKC Salary

[mellow]

What?

https://probasketballtalk.nbcsports...ntract/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Owners today voted to reimburse Thunder "several million $" for rule change new CBA applied retroactively to Durant's contract, per sources.
8:28 PM - 18 Jul 2013


Interesting that the league votes to pay out here, the article explains the reasoning, but also is clear that other teams got caught in the same dilema.

Sometimes I just shake my head at the millions of dollars thrown around by these guys. They talk like 10 million is nothing. $100,000 would be life changing for me, and they wouldn't even notice.

 

[The Black Swordsman]

1000 bucks is nothing for us (well not nothing, but wouldn't drastically change our lives), it is life changing to some poverty stricken kid in India.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Covering part of his salary, but the rule change in the CBA may have very well cost OKC a championship. They had to dump Harden because of the difference in salary amounts.