Sacramento Kings - Richaun Holmes (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)
Initially reported to be returning to the Sacramento Kings on a four-year, $55 million deal, fans lauded the decision to re-sign the energetic big man Richaun Holmes to a team-friendly deal. As it turns out, the official contract was even more team-friendly than we could have imagined.
The maximum Holmes could re-sign with the Kings for using his Early Bird Rights was actually only $46.5 million, so his annual salary will come out to even less for Sacramento. To compensate for this, the Kings converted the fourth year of the deal into a player option and tacked on a 15 percent trade kicker which would bring him closer to that $55 million in the event he is traded.