‘“Nothing wrong with that, it was an average kind of salary. But I was the second-leading scorer in the league (in 1964), so I asked for $20,000. And they offered me $13,000,” he says. “So being kind of a hardheaded Hungarian, you know, I played out my option. That meant I had to take a 10-percent cut. So instead of $11,000, I had to play for $9,900” in 1965.’