12 Months After Claiming $100 Million+ Loss for Vaccination Stance, Kyrie Irving Sets Goals for $6,000,000 Incentives in the New Contract

During this offseason, the league witnessed plenty of exciting trade deals. One of them is the Kyrie Irving trade. After a series of speculations in the media about his future. Meanwhile, the 8x NBA All-Star scripted a three-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks for $126 million. To be more precise, he re-signed to the Mavs after spending later half of 2022-23 regular season with them. Moreover, Uncle Drew has an eye-catching footnote attached to the contract with an aim to bank $6 million by the end of the contract.

Irving always has had a love-hate relationship with money within the league. The star has paid hefty fine amounts and sometimes even banked great deals. For instance, he lost more than $100 million due to his stand on COVID-19 vaccination. Following that, he again faced a fine for his anti-Semitic tweets on social media.

Kyrie Irving opens up on the incentives involved in his contract

Ahead of the Mavs’ road trip to Real Madrid, Kyrie Irving addressed the press and took up a lot of questions. One of the reporters asked the star about the clause in his contract that could fetch him up to $6 million by the end of the third year. According to ABC Sports, the final year of the contract has a player option along with a few options for incentives.

Namely, $1 million dollar for playing at least 65 games and another million dollar, if the team gets 50 wins and if he had played minimum of 58 games. If Irving ticks all the boxes, the star would end up bagging $6 million. Uncle Drew went on reason the idea behind this clause to the media. He said, “I wanted everything that was structured in my contract incentive-wise to be based on production and that was wins and how many games I’m playing.”

He further stressed on how he made his clause in most friendly and realistic manner while answering the press.

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While he aims to get $6 million, he lost $100 million 12 months back.

Irving $100 million dollar tragedy

While the world headed toward normalcy after the pandemic with COVID-19 vaccines, taking over the priority list. Irving refused to get the vaccine and eventually paid the price. He gave up a 4-year contract extension with the Brooklyn Nets. New York City mandated everyone to get vaccinated. During a similar media interaction, he said, “I gave up four years, 100-and-something million deciding to be unvaccinated and that was the decision.” 

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