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Warriors waive guard Chris Paul after 1 season: Sources
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Warriors waive guard Chris Paul after 1 season: Sources

New York Times  

By Shams Charania, Anthony Slater, John Hollinger and Alex Andrejev The Golden State Warriors are waiving Chris Paul, league sources said. After joining Golden State last summer in a trade that sent Jordan Poole to the Washington Wizards, Paul averaged a career-low 9.2 points per game through 58 contests. He averaged 6.8 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game last season, …

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Hollinger: Heat, Suns have survived NBA’s early grind; scouting Miami’s Jaime Jaquez Jr.
1 year ago

Hollinger: Heat, Suns have survived NBA’s early grind; scouting Miami’s Jaime Jaquez Jr.

New York Times  

NEW YORK – Well, this wasn’t quite what I signed up for when I booked this trip. The Suns don’t have a single player in the league’s top 15 in blocks, but lead the league as a team because all 11 players with at least 100 minutes played have blocked at least four shots — even Booker, who had two …

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Hollinger: NBA’s middle-class contract extension revolution; analyzing Giannis’ bag
1 year, 2 months ago

Hollinger: NBA’s middle-class contract extension revolution; analyzing Giannis’ bag

New York Times  

It’s a middle-class revolution. There are exceptions — Philadelphia didn’t extend Maxey because it wants to have him in restricted free agency, where his piddling $13 million cap hold gives the Sixers far more cap space than a max extension would. This deal theoretically keeps him in Cream City until at least 2027, by which he’ll be 32 years old; …

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Hollinger: Gordon Hayward’s contract and the Bird rights trap
4 years, 1 month ago

Hollinger: Gordon Hayward’s contract and the Bird rights trap

New York Times  

It only takes one. It’s what I call the Bird rights trap, and it’s what the Celtics fell into when Gordon Hayward left for Charlotte as a result of an absurd four-year, $120 million deal from the Hornets. Let’s say, for instance, your team was going to be right at the salary cap this season, and you learned a player …

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