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NBA: Dennis Schröder and the truth about the 84 million contract – US SPORT NBA BASKETBALL

Dennis Schröder (29) is back with the Los Angeles Lakers!

On Wednesday evening, our national player was in the squad of the NBA club for the first time, losing a test game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with 113:118. Schröder was on the pitch for nine minutes just two days after landing in California and didn’t score a point.

Schröder has signed a contract with the Lakers, where he played in the 2020/2021 season, until the end of the season. He is said to earn almost 2.5 million dollars.

His media round at the beginning of the week was also about contract and salary.

Many questions revolved around an alleged extension offer that the Lakers are said to have made him in February 2021. In conversation at the time: four years for 84 million dollars.

Schröder denied in an interview with the journalists: “There was no contract, I didn’t refuse anything. It is not true!”

In BILD, Schröder now adds: “I never had a physical copy of this contract. The NBA is a business, so everything has to be put in writing.”

And further: “Back then, in February, the Lakers told me that they wanted to talk about an extension. I wanted to wait until the end of the season. That was the only time we talked about it, after that we didn’t talk anymore. No sums were given either.”

US journalists, such as ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, have confirmed this version.

The only question that remains is: Where does the figure of $84 million come from? Schröder to BILD: “Journalists calculated that based on the salary rules of the NBA.”

After the season with the Lakers, Schröder signed with the Boston Celtics in 2021 for $5.9 million for a year. After a trade to the Houston Rockets, Schröder is now back in Los Angeles.

And says: “I still have an open account here. That’s one of the reasons I’m back with the Lakers. We have to work hard every day to get better. So that we can give ourselves a chance to play at the top or even become champions.”

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