I’ll entertain guaranteeing less if you made the contract bigger and made the first couple years bigger.


Like instead of 62M guaranteed, maybe you could get away with 52M guaranteed, but have those first two years jump it up to 82M real fast. That way he’s taking less guaranteed, but very very likely to earn an extra 20M that’s a near guarantee. I would consider that if I was negotiating.

I don’t even know if that would help much though. You’d still be in a real bad spot if he had a career ender.