NBA star Eddy Curry granted an interview to Vladtv where he talked about refusing a $400K per year for 50 years from the Chicago Bulls to take a test to see whether he had a congenital heart condition. According to him, he refused the big check due to privacy reasons.
MTO News has more;
Eddy Curry led The Chicago Bulls in points average in 2004-05 before being hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. The team then offered him a big check to take a test to see whether he had a congenital heart condition, but he refused on privacy grounds.
He said he was offered $400k per year for 50 years if he took the test.
“Yeah, but the thing was, the crazy thing was my agent had did the math. He’s a super, like, he was a lawyer before all of this, Leon Rose.”
He continued, “He was a crazy super lawyer before this. But like they did the math on this. The Bulls owed me like, I don’t know what it was for that next year. I had option that year to get like $5.7 or ($8 million) or whatever. Whatever it was, they basically were gonna put that money up and pay the interest of that money. That’s all they were really doing… I felt like that wasn’t really honest of them to do that.”
Curry’s math seems off, granted 50 years is a long time, but if he took the alleged offer he would have made $20 million. I understand what he is saying because it looks like the Bulls were trying to get out of his contract that would have paid him millions that year.
Curry ended up getting a $60 million contract from the Knicks before flaming out in the NBA.
He ended up playing 11 years even with his heart condition.
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