The Bucks cut off Lillard with extension clauses and used the remaining contract to pay for delays. Over the next five years, the Bucks will pay Lillard $22.5 million a year, the biggest case of slashing and delaying payments in NBA history. The second highest was Batum. That year, the Hornets chose to pay his remaining $27 million contract in three years, with a year of $9 million; the third was Noah, with a contract in the last year of $19.3 million, and the Knicks also paid Noah 6.43 million in three years, with a year of $6.43 million; the fourth was "Hawk King" Josh Smith, and the Pistons chose to pay him $27 million in five years, with a year of $5.4 million; the fifth was Roll Deng, who had enough of him, with a year of $5.0 million.