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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
from the local beat, via NBCsports
So, yeah, it'd be $91m to buy him out.
And yeah, players can and do pay some of the money back if they would rather play than sit (Kemba Walker reportedly $20m, Blake Griffin reportedly over $13m, are a couple recent examples ).
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I did not even realize that the second year was a player's option. That is an option in a similar way that it is an option for me to turn in a $47.4 million lottery ticket. 
I just don't understand the point that the Rockets are trying to make. Not with that guy. When they made the trade for Wall, they were trading a bad contract for a bad contract with the incentive of also getting a 1st round pick. I always thought someone would trade for Russell Westbrook and nobody would trade for Wall given what I think of both players. That is how it has played out. The Wizards got rid of Westbrook eventually while the Rockets have Wall and that 1st rounder. .
I know everything is negotiable in situations like this and Wall may give back some money at some point. Maybe the Rockets just think more highly of Wall than I do. I would be advising him hang on as much of his money as possible because this is the last big deal. If they wanted to try to convince someone to take a buyout, they should have hung on to Westbrook and tried to convince him.
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