Victor Wembanyama was also entitled to receive the …

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Victor Wembanyama was also entitled to receive the supermax clause, which could have raised his salary to 30 percent of the cap (a projected $301 million over those five years) if he wins MVP, Defensive Player of the Year or makes an All-NBA team next season. Considering he had just become the NBA’s first unanimous defensive player of the year, all he’d effectively need to do to earn that extra salary is play at least 65 games next season. He passed up that chance because he had something bigger in mind: helping the Spurs keep this young team together. “Accumulating money has never really been a goal,” Wembanyama said last season.

New York Times

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