Given the context I actually think this is less spiraling, though it’s still strange and a bit scary for AB’s personality. Instead of having seemingly random ups and downs on this, we have the following timeline:
- Angry about feet/helmet skips practice.
- finds a solution and comes back.
- GM fines him for missing practice, gets mad posts about it on Instagram.
- GM and player confront each other about the Instagram post, player has an outburst and excessive reaction to the confrontation.
- team threatens to suspend player for the confrontation, instead it gets resolved in house and player apologizes and seems to be back on track.
- GM fines player for confrontation instead of suspending, takes away guaranteed $30mm.
- player then gets upset and demands release.
Seems a bit more logical now, albeit the beginning was still totally bizarre. Just immature behavior instead of spiraling IMO