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Yep...Larry Johnson signed a 12 year, 84 million dollar contract in 1993, and there were rumblings that Glenn Robinson was seeking an unprecedented $100M deal in 1994 (to which the owner responded, "I might as well just give him the franchise"). Pippen and Jordan were both underpaid.

Of any athlete, Jordan was worth it. I remember that he was also miffed that he had been locked down to a long-term contract and had been relatively underpaid compared the giant deals that started to proliferate in 1991 onwards. He sought to make up for it, and to take full advantage of the Bird...