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New week? New roundup of my NBA latest

Suns, Heat, Clippers, Trail Blazers, 76ers, Lakers, Mavericks, Rockets, Nuggets, Pacers and more ... all covered in this edition of the Monday Musings

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Jul 04, 2023
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The NBA's new collective bargaining agreement and the various team-building restrictions it contains were supposed to steer the league's 30 franchises away from the Superteam concept.

Sure doesn't seem to be working out that way so far.

The Phoenix Suns were widely described as the NBA's Outlier Franchise right before the June 22 draft when the Suns capitalized on Miami's reluctance to go all-in on a Bradley Beal trade by offering a Chris Paul-centric package to the Wizards so they could take on Beal and the nearly $208 million left on his contract over the next four seasons.

Look at what's happened since, though.


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