I think you misunderstood.

Thomas would clearly not rather play for a lower wage, when he held out until he got 100mil.

That was my point.

Oh, I understood. I think you may have missed something. He signed that $96,250,000 contract after "holding out" of a few days of off season activities on July 31, 2019 well ahead of the start of the season on September 9th. His agent handled his upcoming opportunity as well as any of us would wish ours would if we were in the same position. Good for him and his agent. Well deserved and didn't cost him the opportunity to miss any of the final five plus weeks of preseason activities or more importantly miss any games.

Other than the 29 games he's missed since signing that contract.

And absolutely NONE of those are his choice. Most of those came from him actually being in a game playing when he SHOULD have been on the bench. The most recent coming from a crappy artificial surface in an outdoor stadium (?) in Carolina.

There's no way he not more pissed off that he can't play than you or any of us.

It doesn't matter why he can't play. All that matters is whether he will play now and in the future. Perhaps he got the first injury by chance. Then he worsened it being a hero. Then he got suspended being a villain. Then he worsened it trying to avoid surgery as a combination of hero, villain, and fool. Then he tried to rehab and had setbacks. Then he got hurt again in preseason. Then he came back for a couple games and got hurt again. Every injury can be chance but only a fool ignores the pattern. He has had setback and reinjury after setback and reinjury. Ignoring doctors won't make the injuries go away. Being a hero won't make the injuries go away. Sometimes bad luck changes but more often it does not. So who cares if he is a prima donna stealing his salary or a wounded hero who gave us his best years. Either way those best years are probably in the rear view mirror if you wipe the glass enough to see clearly.