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Hollinger's Insider Gems: Oct. 31, 2008

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Friday, October 31, 2008

A nickel's worth of thoughts: 1. Today is the deadline for contract extensions, and the one whopper that came down was center Andrew Bynum's four-year, $57 million deal with the Lakers, the last year of which isn't guaranteed. This struck me as a rather sensible bargain, given the likelihood that somebody was going to massively overpay Bynum as a restricted free agent next summer and force L.A. to match an Elton Brand-sized contract. Instead, they'll pay him the dough, but just for a little w ...

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