<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">St. Francis - Michael Redd certainly dressed the part of a $91 million man on Saturday afternoon at the Cousins Center. Resplendent in a white suit and bright blue tie, Redd reflected on "one of the greatest days of my life" after signing a six-year maximum salary contract to remain with the Milwaukee Bucks. Redd's agent, Kevin Poston, said the deal was worth $90.9 million (an average annual salary of $15.15 million), making it the richest contract in Bucks history. It was a day honestly never envisioned by Redd, the former Ohio State star who went from an unheralded second-round draft pick to a National Basketball Association all-star and a highly sought free agent. "I remember the first day I came in to the facility," Redd said of his introduction to the Bucks in the fall of 2000. "I was thinking to myself, how am I going to make this team? "You've got Ray Allen here, Glenn Robinson, Tim Thomas, Sam Cassell, Lindsey Hunter. I was like, 'How in the world am I going to make this happen?' I just worked and worked and was determined to be a good NBA player, and Milwaukee hung with me. "I kept working hard, one thing happened after another, and here we are today." Redd said his loyalty to the Bucks and his trust in team owner Herb Kohl and general manager Larry Harris played a key part in the decision. Poston announced in early July that Redd had agreed to return to the Bucks, but no contract could be signed until the league moratorium ended on Aug. 2. The Cleveland Cavaliers also made a strong bid to sign the Columbus, Ohio, native, while trying to persuade him to join all-star LeBron James. "In my heart of hearts, I wanted to come back here in Milwaukee," Redd said. "Obviously I went to Cleveland to visit. It just didn't sit right. I had to do that; it also was in my heart. But eventually staying here in Milwaukee was the one thing I wanted to do."</div> Source
Yeah I'm sure the money wasn't in Redd's heart..He shouldn't have agreed to the Bucks earlier that he would return and then take a nice trip to Cleveland. Whatever Redd is a good guy and really worked hard to be where he is now, but he's not even close to one of the best players the Bucks had, so it is messed up that he is the highest paid. The big 3 of the bucks, ray, robinson, and cassell were all better than redd is now..then of course you had kareem, oscar..
