(04-05-2021, 04:07 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: 1 Anthony Davis is the only high profile guy that legit guy that was RFA maxed and decided he did not want to stay with his team to ink that Supermax.
2 You could say Kawhi did the same thing but some say he felt jerked around with his first deal in SA which was not a max and that contributed (among other things) to the eventual fall-out.
To be clear, both AD and Kawhi signed two max-length deals with their team that drafted them, first as a rookie and then coming off the rookie deal. The problems only began when they got to contract 3.
Both AD and Kawhi added max length max salary deals when coming off rookie contracts. Neither could have been paid a penny more. And both took the max deal when offered.
AD signed a full max-max extension after year 3.
Kawhi signed a full max-max RFA contract after year 4, as the Spurs finessed his deal into free agency in order to max out their cap room that summer. The Spurs waited so they could free up cap space to chase other free agents, especially Aldridge. The rift with SA, which didn't happen until a season-and-a-half later, seemed to be over the way the team handled his injury issues, as they had paid him from day one as much as the rules allowed..