Coming into the summer, whether or not David West and/or Roy Hibbert would exercise their player options was a question to which everyone assumed they knew the answer. The two players sending in the memo necessary to allow them to collect a combined $28 million seemed a foregone conclusion.
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With Candace Buckner‘s report that David West will be declining his player option for this year, the Pacer off season has taken a hard left turn.
West’s option would have paid him $12.6 million in the upcoming 2015-2016 season.