Well he significantly impacted his future. Stephon looked pretty good in preseason.....i could have projected 15 pts a game 8 dimes a night. And i'm not even riding his nutsack.
If you don't start playing competitive basketball till more than midway through the season you are going to be rusty and most likely out of playing shape.... No way you can accomadate that layoff....that 1 year hurt his future contract value. He could have at least gotten a MLE.
Say you do stuff in Flash of you are a developer. If you take a 6 month break there is little stuff you forget how to do same concept. I do think Stephon has a right to be salty about the whole knicks thing especially when i don't think he caused it with this regime (tho no one knows what went down behind closed doors)
Problem is dude:
He had a duty to mitigate.
Look, if he was REALLY concerned about losing money, let's say $11 million (he signs a 2 yr/11 mil deal it's not that much):
THEN if he sees that he's likely going to lose an estimated $11 million in contract money, it makes fiscal and logical sense to take the buyout at, say $9 million less. You wind up saving $11 million at the end, so for the $9 mil you give UP, you get $11 mil more.
Obviously, because Steph was only willing to take $1 mil off the price before finally caving to $3 mil off, that means he felt he was saving $2 mil or less, or he's a moron.
If he was TRULY concerned about his money loss in the future, he would have just cut his losses at the beginning, offered to buyout for a substantial amount of money less (about what he would gain in a new contract, by his estimate), and left it.
BUT he decided to be a stubborn brat and refuse to take anything less than 1 mil off after not playing and being told to stay away from the team. He could have saved himself money by leaving, signing elsewhere and proving himself.
Unless he knew he had nothing left...
Bet we see Cancerbury homeless in 3 years in Coney Island.