By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
According to “Mercury News“, Durant is expected to sign a two-year, $53 million contract. The exact details of his new contract were first reported by ESPN’s Chris Haynes. His first-year salary will be $25 million, nearly $10 million less than what he could have gotten. The second year is a player option, which Durant is expected to decline and sign a new maximum contract.
Durant’s willingness to take even less is how the Warriors were able to sign Andre Iguodala for $48 million and Shaun Livingston for $24 million, both over three years.
Combined, Iguodala and Livingston will make some $24 million next season. The Warriors were perhaps willing to pay them that much because Durant — who has made more than $135 million in his NBA career, not counting endorsement earnings — made it clear he was willing to lower his 2017-18 salary even more. In essence, he is gifting part of his salary to his teammates.