Phillip Buchanon was 22 when the Raiders selected him 17th overall in the 2002 Draft.
He signed a five-year rookie contract worth 7 million dollars, and before the money reached his account, his own mother already had a figure in mind.
“She told me I owed her a million dollars for raising me for 18 years”, the former player recounted years later, without holding back.
Buchanon never gave her that exact million. Instead, he bought her a house and supported her financially in other ways. Somehow settling his “debt”.
A silent negotiation between filial love and the bill a mother decided to hand her son the moment she saw big numbers in a contract.