Gilbert Arenas explains the negotiation process of his leaving GSW for Washington #shorts #nba

— you go on to sign a 6-year, $64 million contract after your second year in the NBA. Can you explain to us what you went through signing that new deal as a restricted free agent? I only played 2 years. I didn't have my bird rights. 7-year, $49 was the max that they could offer me. Denver already came out with $51. Golden State was the last one. They had a hell of a pitch. We were trying to sign an under-the-table deal. 1 year, $4.9, and then have the contract already signed. 7 years. Yes. $79 million. That was the deal that I was gonna sign. Sign now, and then we was both gonna hold it in a vote. By the time I got to there, Washington was coming around $60 to $64. So when we did the calculations, you take the $4.9 plus the $79, came up with about $83 million. Mm-hmm. By the time the money matched, I would've already been out of my Washington deal. You have Jason Richardson, you have me, you have Troy Murphy. Someone was gonna get screwed. The only one that can get screwed who don't have a name is you. And I had to really take that in consideration. So I was like, as much as I wanna love to stay here, I need to go and branch off myself.