Jalen Brunson reveals he walked away from ~$100,000,000 on purpose, ‘I can just play free’
“Everyone looks at it as leaving money on the table. And to a certain degree, it is, the most I could sign for at the time was like the $156 million. If I waited a year, it would’ve been about $100 million more”
“But the average career in the NBA is about four years. Having that uncertainty of betting on yourself, you don’t really know”
“So just having that in my back pocket, knowing I’m good, my family’s good, I can just play free. I don’t have to worry about anything”