The modern NBA equivalency is this: a supermax-contracted star traded for purely financial reasons. We’ve seen a series of players move on for ostensibly non-basketball reasons over the past few years, the latest being Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown’s shocking trade to the Philadelphia 76ers. Celtics general manager Brad Stevens stated clearly that he wasn’t comfortable, in this age of the hardest of soft-caps, with two players making 70% of t…
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