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CWebb not the only name in demand

By Marc Stein
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, July 2, 2001

There's a reason, friends, why half the NBA was traded last week in a 72-hour span. Reason being: It's much more financially friendly to shuffle salaries already on the books, as opposed to spending wildly in the summer. That's the way teams think in the new NBA, where every owner not named Paul Allen or Mark Cuban is openly fearful of the forthcoming luxury tax. "Spooked" is the word used by Seattle president Wally Walker, and most of the other words in circulation are unprintable. No one wa ...

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