NBA: Clint Capela extends his contract with the Rockets

This never happened. A Swiss athlete refuses for weeks an annual salary of $ 17 million because it is not enough – at least until yesterday.

According to the American channel ESPN, Clint Capela (24), star of the NBA, extends his contract with Houston Rockets. The new contract will last five years. He brings him $ 90 million. This makes Capela the highest paid sportsman in the history of Swiss sport.

After a good season with a series of personal bests, the league's best score and the evidence that he integrates so well into the concept of the Rockets as nobody, he won this super contract. This summer, Capela also negotiated with other teams as a "Restricted Free Agent". Houston, however, has retained rights over the Swiss and has been allowed to compete with any competitor.

For a long time, the Swiss hoped for even more money. He speculated on a maximum contract for an annual salary of $ 24 million.

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Friday night, the Geneva team was in agreement with the Texas team. AP
                            
            

        

But as competitors have already exhausted the payroll ceiling or did not need the central position, there are no other offers that could have pushed up the price.

Now he has chosen the security variant. Eighteen million for each of the next five years plus bonuses – we should be able to afford two hot meals a day.

If Capela had refused the Rockets contract offer, he would have had to play for a year with his novice contract. modest $ 4.7 million. He would have taken the risk of contracting for a summer injury without a contract. It took a long time for Capela to decide. Understandable: It comes from the simplest circumstances. His mother worked day and night to get his three sons.

"Clint will be a very rich man, whatever happens now," Houston sports director Daryl Morey predicted during the negotiations. He should be right.

Posted on 27.07.2018 | Updated at 23:51